The Ballad of Bettie Page

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Tuesday 20th April 2004: The Ballad of Bettie Page Update:
Jared Harris has joined the cast of The Ballad of Bettie Page. Harris will play photographer John Willie, who photographed Page, a real-life pinup superstar, in the 1950s. Page (Gretchen Mol) was the subject of a Senate investigation into pornography because of the kinky overtones of her photographs.

Wednesday 7th April 2004: The Ballad of Bettie Page Update:
Its now official. Killer Films is currently in
pre-production on the feature film THE BALLAD OF
BETTIE PAGE, starring Gretchen Mol ("Rounders"),
according to Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler,
co-presidents, Killer Films.
The most successful pin-up model of the 1950s, Page's
legendary photographs made her the target of a Senate
investigation and turned her into one of the first
American sex icons.
The film is to be directed by Mary Harron ("I Shot
Andy Warhol") from a script by Harron and Guinivere
Turner ("American Psycho"). The executive producers
are Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, and the
producer is Lori Keith Douglas.
The cast also includes Lili Taylor ("Casa de los
babys"), David Strathairn ("Twisted"), Jonathan M.
Woodward ("Pipe Dream"), Cara Seymour ("Gangs of New
York"), Tara Subkoff ("The Cell") and Kevin Carroll
("The Secret Lives of Dentists").
Executive producers Christine Vachon and Pamela
Koffler are partners (with Katie Roumel) in Killer
Films, founded in 1996. Credits under the Killer Films
banner include "Kiss Me, Guido". "Velvet Goldmine" and
"Hedwig and The Angry Inch," winner of the Audience
Award and Director Award at the 2001 Sundance Film
Festival. Killer also produced Kimberly Peirce's "Boys
Don't Cry," which won an Academy Award and a Golden
Globe for Hilary Swank's performance, and earned Oscar
and Golden Globe nominations for Chloe Sevigny's
supporting role.
Thanks to Michael Stevens

Tuesday 17th February 2004: The Ballad of Bettie Page Update:
Gretchen Mol will star in The Ballad of Bettie Page following America's greatest pin-up girl of the 1950s. 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.

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