For a movie about the pinup wonder of an era, "The Notorious Bettie Page" is surprisingly tame, an exuberant performance from Gretchen Mol in the title role going to waste in an uninvolving account.

Directed by Mary Harron Starring Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris Rated R 91 minutes Picturehouse In the dirty diorama of 1950s fetish photography, Bettie Page was the trussed-up pinup queen ...

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 ...

Call it a tale of two women: both young and pretty and naive about a business that can chew up starlets and spit them out fast. The ladies are 1950s pinup model Bettie Page and modern-day actress ...

As the eponymous fifties bondage queen in Mary Harron’s blithe biopic The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol has a wonderfully healthy glow. Early in the movie, when a photographer asks Bettie if she ...

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 ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5342783/5342784" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The ...

Annie Leibovitz’s cover photograph of Gretchen Mol for the September 1998 issue of Vanity Fair caused a minor stir when it hit the stands that fall. Not only did the form-hugging Alberta Ferretti ...

"The Notorious Bettie Page" reps a missed opportunity. A superficial look at the '50s sex icon, pic feels like it was researched via press clippings rather than attempting a fresh rethinking of its ...