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2 unusual facts about Bettie Page: Dark Angel


Bettie Page: Dark Angel

Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a 2004 film directed and produced by Cult Epics founder Nico B.

Set in New York during 1953-1957, the film faithfully recreates six lost fetish/bondage 16mm featurettes she did for Irving Klaw (played by Dukey Flyswatter).


Alfred Leland Crabb

While teaching at Peabody in the 1940s, the typist for his manuscripts was a student, future Playboy centerfold Bettie Page.

Bunny Yeager

Included were some never before seen photos of various models including the late Bettie Page.

She met Bettie Page in 1954, and took most of the photographs of her that year.

Cheri Caffaro

She was quickly stereotyped, became disenchanted with the direction her film career had taken and, like Bettie Page before her, disappeared from the public eye.

DLR Band

The album's cover artwork features a picture of model Bettie Page.

Humorama

In addition to the cartoons, the magazines also displayed black-and-white photos of pin-up models, including Bettie Page, Eve Meyer and stripper Lili St. Cyr, plus actresses, including Joi Lansing, Tina Louise, Irish McCalla and Julie Newmar.

Nico B.

He is also the founder and owner of the infamous Cultvideotheek in Amsterdam and of Cult Epics, a distributor of cult movies in the genres arthouse, horror and erotica, specialized in the work of Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Jean Genet, Fernando Arrabal, Rene Daalder, Abel Ferrara, Radley Metzger, Irving Klaw, and Bettie Page.

Paul Morgan Donald

His musicals include Kink! a musical about 1950's pin-up icon Bettie Page,The Adventures of Wanda & Jack, an alt-country meditation on life on the road, written with partner Michele Brown, and Songs for a Dark Lady, re-assembling the words of William Shakespeare into a one-man musical about Shakespeare's tortured relationship with his muse, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets.

Striporama

Today, it is best known as one of the few feature films starring pin-up model Bettie Page.

The Pin-Ups

They were without a permanent name until Tan wore a Bettie Page T-shirt to a rehearsal at then-Eraserheads drummer Raimund Marasigan's house.


see also

Constantin Werner

Constantin Werner's producing credits include the action TV-series Puma, directed by martial arts legend Donnie Yen, for the German network RTL, the independent film Fireflies (starring Kate Mara, Dan Frazer and Isabel Glasser) and the 2004 Cult Epics release Bettie Page, Dark Angel.