Production Report: "Bettie Page", "Cable Beach", "Happy Endings", "How to Eat a Watermelon...", "Lonesome Jim" Jason Guerrasio and Steve Buscemi on the set of "Lonesome Jim". Photo courtesy of the filmmakers. "The Ballad of Bettie Page" Last month, on the second floor of a marble courthouse foyer in Brooklyn, one of America's most famous sex icons waited to testify before a Senate committee's investigation into obscenity.
But Bettie Page, wearing a modest brown petticoat and long curly dark hair, looked nothing like the S&M wildcat depicted in her photographs. Played by the good-natured Gretchen Mol, she actually looked like your average '50s girl next door.
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