Bettie.Page.Reveals.All.2012.720p.BluRay.x264.YIFY Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:22,168 --> 00:00:24,437 Ladies and Gentlemen, here she is now. 2 00:00:24,438 --> 00:00:28,441 Let's get together and meet that very delightful, 3 00:00:28,442 --> 00:00:31,310 that sultry siren of the southland, 4 00:00:31,311 --> 00:00:34,547 the lovely Bettie Page. 5 00:00:52,666 --> 00:00:54,000 Who are you? 6 00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:57,003 I'm an illusion. 7 00:00:57,004 --> 00:00:59,138 You're an illusion? 8 00:00:59,139 --> 00:01:01,941 Then you're not real? 9 00:01:01,942 --> 00:01:04,443 Of course, I'm real. 10 00:01:04,444 --> 00:01:06,512 It is very difficult 11 00:01:06,513 --> 00:01:10,650 to find a parallel for her. 12 00:01:10,651 --> 00:01:14,487 I mean, this combination of... 13 00:01:14,488 --> 00:01:16,522 naughty and nice. 14 00:01:16,523 --> 00:01:21,227 And it is all in the context of innocence. 15 00:01:21,228 --> 00:01:24,096 She expressed sexual liberation. 16 00:01:24,097 --> 00:01:27,333 Bettie is still this subversive, 17 00:01:27,334 --> 00:01:30,536 adventurous, sexual persona 18 00:01:30,537 --> 00:01:32,672 that people are trying to emulate. 19 00:01:32,673 --> 00:01:34,674 I think it's like the confusion 20 00:01:34,675 --> 00:01:37,310 between maybe the real person 21 00:01:37,311 --> 00:01:40,079 and the artwork and the cartoons, 22 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,480 like all of these... 23 00:01:41,481 --> 00:01:44,183 it's sort of confusing even whether she was a real person or not. 24 00:01:44,184 --> 00:01:47,119 People love Bettie Page for her whole being 25 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,989 for the radiance that she exuded, 26 00:01:49,990 --> 00:01:52,825 the sexuality that she showed 27 00:01:52,826 --> 00:01:55,962 without being cheap, ever. 28 00:01:55,963 --> 00:01:58,564 And women gravitated to that concept. 29 00:01:58,565 --> 00:02:01,000 The remarkable thing about her image is 30 00:02:01,001 --> 00:02:02,902 how much it has influenced pop culture 31 00:02:02,903 --> 00:02:06,272 from movies to music to fashion. It's remarkable. 32 00:02:44,244 --> 00:02:48,447 One of the things that I love about her iconography 33 00:02:48,448 --> 00:02:52,351 is that she just portrayed herself as a very strong woman, 34 00:02:52,352 --> 00:02:55,288 even if she was not in the position of power. 35 00:02:58,959 --> 00:03:02,595 She's lasted because she has that rare quality 36 00:03:02,596 --> 00:03:06,397 that's sort of hard to define, it's that sort of ultimate star quality. 37 00:03:07,534 --> 00:03:10,636 I feel like a lot of girls like me 38 00:03:10,637 --> 00:03:12,338 can identify with Bettie 39 00:03:12,339 --> 00:03:14,307 because you can kind of capture the spirit 40 00:03:14,308 --> 00:03:18,644 of that s***y, sensual, timeless look. 41 00:03:19,713 --> 00:03:23,649 She looks fantastic and I think that's what men prefer. 42 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:30,623 I don't think men prefer the really skinny, bones thin women. 43 00:03:30,624 --> 00:03:33,659 I think Bettie Page is a real woman. 44 00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:36,195 I mean she have form, b***s, 45 00:03:36,196 --> 00:03:39,724 butt, and that's very beautiful. 46 00:03:41,868 --> 00:03:45,965 I gave her a lot of credit because she opened the door for a lot of us. 47 00:03:48,942 --> 00:03:51,677 She's the most important glamour icon 48 00:03:51,678 --> 00:03:55,104 that she really paved the way for all the rest. 49 00:03:58,251 --> 00:04:02,154 And she's beautiful but yet she's approachable, 50 00:04:02,155 --> 00:04:03,723 she's the girl next door. 51 00:04:03,724 --> 00:04:06,525 Bettie Page is the good girl but she's a bad girl. 52 00:04:06,526 --> 00:04:08,427 She's fun, she's playful. 53 00:04:08,428 --> 00:04:10,557 All right, bitch, bring it. 54 00:04:17,704 --> 00:04:20,106 Oh, st... ah! 55 00:04:20,107 --> 00:04:23,576 I mean, she's the reason why we're all here today 56 00:04:23,577 --> 00:04:24,944 in a sense is because of her, 57 00:04:24,945 --> 00:04:28,347 I mean, she's the original pinup girl, she's the original. 58 00:04:28,348 --> 00:04:30,549 We're all going to be dust, 59 00:04:30,550 --> 00:04:32,284 they'll be nothing else anymore, 60 00:04:32,285 --> 00:04:35,254 and there'll always be Bettie Page no matter what. 61 00:04:35,255 --> 00:04:36,756 She had the magic. 62 00:04:36,757 --> 00:04:38,457 She was deeply religious. 63 00:04:38,458 --> 00:04:41,894 She was willing to do all kinds of crazy outrageous things. 64 00:04:41,895 --> 00:04:44,997 There's some rather large skeletons in that woman's closet. 65 00:04:44,998 --> 00:04:47,800 How do you reconcile that behavior 66 00:04:47,801 --> 00:04:53,105 with the image that she projects in these photographs? 67 00:04:53,106 --> 00:04:57,009 She reached the peak of popularity in her profession and disappeared. 68 00:04:57,010 --> 00:05:00,436 Nobody knew what happened to Bettie Page. 69 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:05,504 Bettie, if you know what's going on, 70 00:07:05,505 --> 00:07:10,643 I want to tell you this is your friend Robert Schuller saying, 71 00:07:10,644 --> 00:07:15,881 "This too is the day that God has made. 72 00:07:15,882 --> 00:07:20,486 Let us rejoice and be glad in it." 73 00:07:20,487 --> 00:07:25,124 We all thought we knew her from different perspectives, 74 00:07:25,125 --> 00:07:28,527 but I'm sure no one will leave this place today 75 00:07:28,528 --> 00:07:30,629 without having had another glimpse 76 00:07:30,630 --> 00:07:35,626 into the private heart of Bettie. 77 00:07:38,438 --> 00:07:43,208 Okay, Bettie, I'll just ask you some questions. 78 00:07:43,209 --> 00:07:44,310 Okay. 79 00:07:44,311 --> 00:07:46,612 You were born in Nashville, right? 80 00:07:46,613 --> 00:07:49,548 I was born in Nashville, Tennessee, 81 00:07:49,549 --> 00:07:53,350 April 22nd, 1923. 82 00:07:54,054 --> 00:07:57,056 We were so poor, we lived on beans, 83 00:07:57,057 --> 00:08:00,025 fried potatoes, and macaroni. 84 00:08:00,026 --> 00:08:03,095 You couldn't talk to Mama, 85 00:08:03,096 --> 00:08:06,699 she didn't want any girls in the first place. 86 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:10,126 She always wanted only two boys. 87 00:08:11,504 --> 00:08:14,440 My father was a womanizer of the worst sort. 88 00:08:14,441 --> 00:08:17,009 A s***x fiend is the way to put it. 89 00:08:17,010 --> 00:08:21,647 I mean s***x with anything that he could get his "you know what" into. 90 00:08:21,648 --> 00:08:26,485 Chickens, and sheep, and cows, and anything. 91 00:08:26,486 --> 00:08:29,288 And in order to get 10 cents to go to the movies, 92 00:08:29,289 --> 00:08:31,690 I let him fool around on the outside. 93 00:08:31,691 --> 00:08:36,221 Now, he didn't penetrate me inside like he did my two sisters. 94 00:08:38,865 --> 00:08:42,901 Mama left him and hitchhiked 30 miles to Nashville 95 00:08:42,902 --> 00:08:45,004 with six children, 96 00:08:45,005 --> 00:08:47,406 and she was uneducated, only a third grade education, 97 00:08:47,407 --> 00:08:49,408 she had no trade at all, 98 00:08:49,409 --> 00:08:52,111 and she couldn't take care of all six of us children, 99 00:08:52,112 --> 00:08:56,243 so my two sisters and I were put in a Protestant orphanage for a year. 100 00:08:57,984 --> 00:09:02,021 The orphanage was run by three old maids. 101 00:09:02,022 --> 00:09:06,959 They would talk to us like dogs, they were very mean to us, 102 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,461 and they had me scrubbing floors all the time. 103 00:09:09,462 --> 00:09:12,194 I was only 11 years old then. 104 00:09:13,733 --> 00:09:16,368 We just hated that place. 105 00:09:16,369 --> 00:09:19,567 I was so glad to get out of there. 106 00:09:24,010 --> 00:09:27,413 I learned to pose from movie star pictures 107 00:09:27,414 --> 00:09:30,612 in magazines and newspapers. 108 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:37,489 And my sisters and I would try to mimic their poses. 109 00:09:37,490 --> 00:09:41,660 We'd even get out in the front yard with our underwear on. 110 00:09:45,899 --> 00:09:47,666 I had several photographers 111 00:09:47,667 --> 00:09:49,501 and amateur photographers 112 00:09:49,502 --> 00:09:51,170 come up and approach me and ask me 113 00:09:51,171 --> 00:09:55,063 if they could take pictures of me, I always said yes. 114 00:09:56,710 --> 00:10:01,346 My dream when I was in high school was to be Valedictorian, 115 00:10:01,347 --> 00:10:05,350 and I studied so hard trying to be Valedictorian 116 00:10:05,351 --> 00:10:11,156 because with it was a four year scholarship to Vanderbilt University. 117 00:10:11,157 --> 00:10:13,659 But I was beat out of Valedictorian 118 00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:16,395 by one-quarter of a point now, 119 00:10:16,396 --> 00:10:20,365 can you imagine, and I had to settle for being Salutatorian. 120 00:10:20,366 --> 00:10:23,168 And all I g***t was a $100 scholarship 121 00:10:23,169 --> 00:10:26,231 to George Peabody College for Teachers. 122 00:10:27,907 --> 00:10:31,610 After high school, I started dating Billy Neal. 123 00:10:31,611 --> 00:10:35,914 He was a big sports hero around town. 124 00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:37,950 And he taught me to dance, 125 00:10:37,951 --> 00:10:41,019 which I've always loved. 126 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:45,424 And he taught me everything about s***x too, 127 00:10:45,425 --> 00:10:48,316 which I enjoyed. 128 00:10:50,130 --> 00:10:52,731 Well, when...