E! True Hollywood Story - Bettie Page (1997)

"From Pin Up to Sex Queen: Bettie Page"
This is an E! True Hollywood story but an incomplete one. At no time do viewers hear about Bettie's later struggle with schizophrenia or her 1979 arrest for attempted murder. The closest we get is towards the very end of the program when Bettie says, "I don't regret anything, just 2 or 3 bad experiences I had."
Still, this is a fascinating retrospective of Bettie's career and her entanglements with the law in the 1950s.
Popping in and out of the program are the following people:
Jack Page (Bettie's brother) - Karen Essex (Bettie's biographer) - Greg Theakston (Tease Magazine editor) - Jim Silke (illustrator/author) - Sam Menning (photographer) - Art Amsie (Camera Club photographer) - Addison Yeaman (Camera Club photographer) - Paula Klaw (co-owner of Movie Star News) - Ira Kramer (owner of Movie Star News) - Bunny Yeager (photographer) - Hugh Hefner - Dr. Susan Block (sex historian) - I.S. Levine (writer) - Dave Stevens (artist) - Robert Blue (artist) - Matthew Rolston (photographer/director) - Todd Oldham (fashion designer) - Shalom Harlow (supermodel) - Robert Reynolds (musician) - BR5-49 (band) - Debi Mazar - Guinevere Turner - Tom Goldsmith (city editor for the "Tennessean") - Steve Sullivan (pinup historian) - Ellsworth Boyd (columnist, Skin Diver Magazine) - Rev. Morris O. Wright (Key West Baptist Temple preacher) - Harry Lear (Bettie's third ex-husband) - Joe Zinnato (owner of Exploded Views Books)
and finally ... at
1:16:36 - Bettie Page herself is interviewed, in shadow.

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She was way ahead of her time. Made her own swimsuits & outfits. Was taken advantage too many times. She walked away from it all at the height of her career. Very smart lady. She refused being photographed in her later years to preserve her beauty forever for her fan's. She understood how shallow the media is. Hefner was a gross human being.

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it had nothing to do with media it was strickly she wanted her fans to remember her how she was and didnt want them to see her as the old lady she became. bettie also adored heff and before she died her only apperance was at the manshion at an event and she was pictured with the girls and a cake . the event was for her