[BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL
screens Saturday March 8th at 9:30 pm and Sunday March 9th at 6:30 pm
at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review
by Bob Ignizio
For most of the nineteen fifties, a
woman from Tennessee named Bettie Page posed for a series of
photographs that would make her an iconic sex symbol. The photos
ranged from amateur shot cheesecake photos for New York city “camera
clubs” to bondage photos for pin up photographer Irving Klaw. She
also posed several times for Bunny Yeager, herself a former pin-up
model turned photographer, which resulted in Bettie becoming the
first holiday Playmate in the January 1955 issue of Playboy
Magazine. In all of these
photos, there was something special about Bettie that went beyond
just her undeniable good looks – a sense of joy, a knack for
knowing just the right post, and a complete and utter lack of shame.
And then, she seemed to simply vanish from the face of the earth.
