The story of Bettie Page, uber-successful 1950''s pin-up model, one of the first
sex icons in America, and the target of a Senate investigation (based on her
bondage photos).
Storyline
Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008 ) waits to
testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic
material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her
childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York
City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in
short films for adults, earning the nickname, "The Pin-Up Queen of the
Universe." We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw,
photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through
it all, she is wholesome, sporting, and forthright - Eve before the fall.
