Bettie Page

America's favorite pinup tells all about her troubled past, her relationships with men, her sexual highs and lows and what she really thinks about Gretchen Mol and that movie

 
THE 21ST QUESTION:
You look ready for your big-time Hollywood close-up in those incredible photographs taken of you mostly in New York in the 1950s, and even those couple of short appearances you made from 1953 to 1955 in low-budget burlesque movie musicals you made for famed pinup photographer Irving Klaw like Striporama and Teaserama.

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I did a little dance in one of those movies and introduced the acts in another one. I didn't have much of anything in them because they were stripper movies with Tempest Storm and I wasn't stripping or anything. I only did those just so I could get enough money to go to my mother's in Pittsburgh or to my sister's in Miami or go traveling around. I could make more money if I did something like being a secretary. I never did it as a means to making bigger movies. I used to take care of myself back in those days. When I lived in New York from 1950 to 1957, I used to go to the Park Avenue Hotel where they had a big heated swimming pool, a waterfall you could stand under, a gym and a Norwegian gym teacher, a masseuse and all kinds of exercise machines. I was dancing a lot, too, and that'll keep you in shape.

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