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

00:00:22,168 --> 00:00:24,Ladies and Gentlemen,
here she is now.

00:00:24,438 --> 00:00:28,Let's get together and
meet that very delightful,

00:00:28,442 --> 00:00:31,that sultry siren of the southland,

00:00:31,311 --> 00:00:34,the lovely Bettie Page.

00:00:52,666 --> 00:00:54,Who are you?

00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:57,I'm an illusion.

00:00:57,004 --> 00:00:59,You're an illusion?

00:00:59,139 --> 00:01:01,Then you're not real?

00:01:01,942 --> 00:01:04,Of course, I'm real.

00:01:04,444 --> 00:01:06,It is very difficult

00:01:06,513 --> 00:01:10,to find a parallel for her.

00:01:10,651 --> 00:01:14,I mean, this combination of...

00:01:14,488 --> 00:01:16,naughty and nice.

00:01:16,523 --> 00:01:21,And it is all in the
context of innocence.

00:01:21,228 --> 00:01:24,She expressed sexual liberation.

00:01:24,097 --> 00:01:27,Bettie is still this subversive,

00:01:27,334 --> 00:01:30,adventurous, sexual persona

00:01:30,537 --> 00:01:32,that people are trying to emulate.

00:01:32,673 --> 00:01:34,I think it's like the confusion

00:01:34,675 --> 00:01:37,between maybe the real person

00:01:37,311 --> 00:01:40,and the artwork and the cartoons,

00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,like all of these...

00:01:41,481 --> 00:01:44,it's sort of confusing even whether
she was a real person or not.

00:01:44,184 --> 00:01:47,People love Bettie Page
for her whole being

00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,for the radiance that she exuded,

00:01:49,990 --> 00:01:52,the sexuality that she showed

00:01:52,826 --> 00:01:55,without being cheap, ever.

00:01:55,963 --> 00:01:58,And women gravitated
to that concept.

00:01:58,565 --> 00:02:01,The remarkable thing
about her image is

00:02:01,001 --> 00:02:02,how much it has
influenced pop culture

00:02:02,903 --> 00:02:06,from movies to music to
fashion. It's remarkable.

00:02:44,244 --> 00:02:48,One of the things
that I love about her iconography

00:02:48,448 --> 00:02:52,is that she just portrayed
herself as a very strong woman,

00:02:52,352 --> 00:02:55,even if she was not in
the position of power.

00:02:58,959 --> 00:03:02,She's lasted because she
has that rare quality

00:03:02,596 --> 00:03:06,that's sort of hard to define,
it's that sort of ultimate star quality.

00:03:07,534 --> 00:03:10,I feel like a lot of girls like me

00:03:10,637 --> 00:03:12,can identify with Bettie

00:03:12,339 --> 00:03:14,because you can kind
of capture the spirit

00:03:14,308 --> 00:03:18,of that s***y, sensual,
timeless look.

00:03:19,713 --> 00:03:23,She looks fantastic and I
think that's what men prefer.

00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:30,I don't think men prefer the
really skinny, bones thin women.

00:03:30,624 --> 00:03:33,I think Bettie Page
is a real woman.

00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:36,I mean she have form, b***s,

00:03:36,196 --> 00:03:39,butt, and that's very beautiful.

00:03:41,868 --> 00:03:45,I gave her a lot of credit because
she opened the door for a lot of us.

00:03:48,942 --> 00:03:51,She's the most
important glamour icon

00:03:51,678 --> 00:03:55,that she really paved the
way for all the rest.

00:03:58,251 --> 00:04:02,And she's beautiful but
yet she's approachable,

00:04:02,155 --> 00:04:03,she's the girl next door.

00:04:03,724 --> 00:04:06,Bettie Page is the good
girl but she's a bad girl.

00:04:06,526 --> 00:04:08,She's fun, she's playful.

00:04:08,428 --> 00:04:10,All right, bitch, bring it.

00:04:17,704 --> 00:04:20,Oh, st... ah!

00:04:20,107 --> 00:04:23,I mean, she's the reason
why we're all here today

00:04:23,577 --> 00:04:24,in a sense is because of her,

00:04:24,945 --> 00:04:28,I mean, she's the original pinup
girl, she's the original.

00:04:28,348 --> 00:04:30,We're all going to be dust,

00:04:30,550 --> 00:04:32,they'll be nothing else anymore,

00:04:32,285 --> 00:04:35,and there'll always be
Bettie Page no matter what.

00:04:35,255 --> 00:04:36,She had the magic.

00:04:36,757 --> 00:04:38,She was deeply religious.

00:04:38,458 --> 00:04:41,She was willing to do all kinds
of crazy outrageous things.

00:04:41,895 --> 00:04:44,There's some rather large
skeletons in that woman's closet.

00:04:44,998 --> 00:04:47,How do you reconcile that behavior

00:04:47,801 --> 00:04:53,with the image that she
projects in these photographs?

00:04:53,106 --> 00:04:57,She reached the peak of popularity
in her profession and disappeared.

00:04:57,010 --> 00:05:00,Nobody knew what
happened to Bettie Page.

00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:05,Bettie, if you know
what's going on,

00:07:05,505 --> 00:07:10,I want to tell you this is your
friend Robert Schuller saying,

00:07:10,644 --> 00:07:15,"This too is the day
that God has made.

00:07:15,882 --> 00:07:20,Let us rejoice and be glad in it."

00:07:20,487 --> 00:07:25,We all thought we knew her
from different perspectives,

00:07:25,125 --> 00:07:28,but I'm sure no one will
leave this place today

00:07:28,528 --> 00:07:30,without having had another glimpse

00:07:30,630 --> 00:07:35,into the private heart of Bettie.

00:07:38,438 --> 00:07:43,Okay, Bettie,
I'll just ask you some questions.

00:07:43,209 --> 00:07:44,Okay.

00:07:44,311 --> 00:07:46,You were born in Nashville, right?

00:07:46,613 --> 00:07:49,I was born in Nashville, Tennessee,

00:07:49,549 --> 00:07:53,April 22nd, 1923.

00:07:54,054 --> 00:07:57,We were so poor, we lived on beans,

00:07:57,057 --> 00:08:00,fried potatoes, and macaroni.

00:08:00,026 --> 00:08:03,You couldn't talk to Mama,

00:08:03,096 --> 00:08:06,she didn't want any girls
in the first place.

00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:10,She always wanted only two boys.

00:08:11,504 --> 00:08:14,My father was a womanizer
of the worst sort.

00:08:14,441 --> 00:08:17,A s***x fiend is the way to put it.

00:08:17,010 --> 00:08:21,I mean s***x with anything that he
could get his "you know what" into.

00:08:21,648 --> 00:08:26,Chickens, and sheep,
and cows, and anything.

00:08:26,486 --> 00:08:29,And in order to get cents to go to the movies,

00:08:29,289 --> 00:08:31,I let him fool around
on the outside.

00:08:31,691 --> 00:08:36,Now, he didn't penetrate me inside
like he did my two sisters.

00:08:38,865 --> 00:08:42,Mama left him and hitchhiked
30 miles to Nashville

00:08:42,902 --> 00:08:45,with six children,

00:08:45,005 --> 00:08:47,and she was uneducated,
only a third grade education,

00:08:47,407 --> 00:08:49,she had no trade at all,

00:08:49,409 --> 00:08:52,and she couldn't take care
of all six of us children,

00:08:52,112 --> 00:08:56,so my two sisters and I were put in
a Protestant orphanage for a year.

00:08:57,984 --> 00:09:02,The orphanage was run
by three old maids.

00:09:02,022 --> 00:09:06,They would talk to us like dogs,
they were very mean to us,

00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,and they had me scrubbing
floors all the time.

00:09:09,462 --> 00:09:12,I was only 11 years old then.

00:09:13,733 --> 00:09:16,We just hated that place.

00:09:16,369 --> 00:09:19,I was so glad to get out of there.

00:09:24,010 --> 00:09:27,I learned to pose from
movie star pictures

00:09:27,414 --> 00:09:30,in magazines and newspapers.

00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:37,And my sisters and I would
try to mimic their poses.

00:09:37,490 --> 00:09:41,We'd even get out in the front
yard with our underwear on.

00:09:45,899 --> 00:09:47,I had several photographers

00:09:47,667 --> 00:09:49,and amateur photographers

00:09:49,502 --> 00:09:51,come up and approach me and ask me

00:09:51,171 --> 00:09:55,if they could take pictures
of me, I always said yes.

00:09:56,710 --> 00:10:01,My dream when I was in high
school was to be Valedictorian,

00:10:01,347 --> 00:10:05,and I studied so hard
trying to be Valedictorian

00:10:05,351 --> 00:10:11,because with it was a four year
scholarship to Vanderbilt University.

00:10:11,157 --> 00:10:13,But I was beat out of Valedictorian

00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:16,by one-quarter of a point now,

00:10:16,396 --> 00:10:20,can you imagine, and I had to
settle for being Salutatorian.

00:10:20,366 --> 00:10:23,And all I g***t was a
$100 scholarship

00:10:23,169 --> 00:10:26,to George Peabody
College for Teachers.

00:10:27,907 --> 00:10:31,After high school,
I started dating Billy Neal.

00:10:31,611 --> 00:10:35,He was a big sports
hero around town.

00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:37,And he taught me to dance,

00:10:37,951 --> 00:10:41,which I've always loved.

00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:45,And he taught me
everything about s***x too,

00:10:45,425 --> 00:10:48,which I enjoyed.

00:10:50,130 --> 00:10:52,Well, when...