Bettie Page: Dark Angel
2004 film by Nico B.
Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a 2004 film directed and produced by Cult Epics founder Nico Bruinsma. Page is played by fetish model Paige Richards. The film premiered at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival in February 2004.
Plot summary
Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a biographical drama based on the career of Bettie Page, a famous American 1950s pin-up and bondage model. Set in New York during 1953–1957, the film recreates six lost fetish/bondage 16mm featurettes she did for Irving Klaw (played by Dukey Flyswatter). Her bondage films and photographs gave her the nickname Dark Angel and also led to a US Senate Committee investigation.
Cast
Paige Richards as Bettie Page
Michael Sonye as Irving Klaw (as Dukey Flyswatter)
Jamie Henkin as Paula Klaw
Christopher Page as Jack Bradley
Kirsi Sand as Bunny Yeager
Clinton Ehrlich as Marvin Greene
David Maynard as Walterson
Emily Marilyn as Unknown Model
Jana Strain as Peggy Raye
Julie Simone as Model Julie London
Jeanne Landis as Model Julie Simone
David Neff as Howard Hughes
Rob Young as Casting Agent
Oto Brezina as Sen.
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