Bettie Page is having yet another revival — though now, a totally Hollywood one — with the April release of The Notorious Bettie Page (Flash site, LAME!). I am glad that at least she’s being played by Gretchen Mol and not Liv Tyler, even though I can think of like ten non-famous, non-Hollywood burlesque dancers that would be awesome (and perfectly bootylicious) Betties. Mol, sadly, does not fill out the ruffle-butt panties of legendary Page.

Boing Boing recently pointed us to a new article interviewing Page, “Bettie Page in LA Times“, where she tells us that the BDSM work she did for Irving Klaw was only for the money, and that she derived no enjoyment for this token she had to exchange for the cash she got doing other modeling for Klaw. I seriously doubt that anyone who showed the life, excitement, enthusiasm and exuberance for fetish, catfights, bondage and spankings as she did would have been just going through the motions. Click on any number of porn sites and you can see a bajillion girls going through the motions to make a buck; no one made it look as fun, sexy and hot as Page did. What needs to mentioned in context with Page’s statements about her BDSM work is her post-modeling conversion to conservative Christianity — this informs us about her (public) perspective on her former work. Her new values require an internal division with what’s in confilct with those values. But, whatever — her old videos are fucking hot, and she had the bestest body, and looked delectable in bondage. I’d trade places with Bettie Page of old, right now, in a red hot minute.

Think I’m ranting? Maybe. But check out the videos of her in action, the trailer for the upcoming film, and see at least one *extremely creepy* rumored Page stag film, after the jump.

Update, reader comment:
> My friend [redacted] went to a screening of that Bettie Page
> movie at the Playboy Mansion, with the real Bettie Page in
> attendance. She said that Bettie heckled the entire movie,
> complaining about inaccuracies all the way through!

Photo via the nudes at bettiepage.com.

Bettie’s hot silent “fireplace dance” — no nudity, but she doesn’t need to get naked for us to see what’s missing from modern porn:

Terrible music, but here’s Bettie enjoying bondage and spanking that is beyond hot (short video):

Majorly creepy because ventriloquist dummies are like clowns: this pseudo-stag film supposedly stars Bettie — what do you think, is it her?

The trailer for The Notorious Bettie Page, which I’m totally going to go see: