Certainly when it comes to sexuality, there’s nothing simpler than to roll one’s eyes at that tried-and-true brand name, American Puritanism. Attempts at driving a nail through the priggish heart of ...

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In The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol gives a juicy performance as the palpitating pin-up girl from Tennessee whose provocative In The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol gives a juicy ...

LOS ANGELES — Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controverisal photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was ...

For a movie about the pinup wonder of an era, this film biography is surprisingly tame, an exuberant performance from Gretchen Mol in the title role going to waste in an uninvolving account.

If you can tell a society by its smut, America in the Fifties couldn’t have been just a Frigidaire of repressive hysteria. Hidden somewhere in the closets of Pleasantville and Peyton Place, after all, ...

Bettie Page, the pin-up girl from the 1950's died last night at the age of 85. Larry talks with Richard Foster, author of The Real Bettie Page about her life and legacy. LAist is an independent, ...