Eh say hello to the new Bettie Page! HBO and IFC are in post production as we speak and the film will be out next year! woohoo!Bettie Page and Lana Turner movies in the works Posted on Wed, 18-Feb-2004
According to Production Weekly, Gretchen Mol [?Rounders?] Gretchen Mol will play Bettie Page, America's greatest pin-up girl of the 1950s, in the film ?The Ballad of Bettie Page?. To be Written and Directed by Mary Harron, the biopic is expected to begin shooting the first week of April in New York.
Mol, will play the ultimate girl-next door, and one of the most popular Playboy centerfolds. Page challenged the conservative 1950s, posing as a fierce dominatrix and earning both a cult underground following and Senate Committee investigation on juvenile delinquency, essentially a witch-hunt orchestrated by a senator from her home state of Tennessee bent on exploiting her as a steppingstone to the White House.
At the height of her popularity, Bettie disappeared. But in 1979 and 1982, Page (a diagnosed schizophrenic) tried to stab several people to death and was institutionalized.