The Notorious Bettie Page Page #7

In some instances, yes.

Mr. Grimm,

I want say as Chairman

of this Subcommittee...

I know the embarrassment

and the distaste

you have

in coming here

to talk about the tragic

happening to your son

on August 20th

of last year.

We appreciate

your cooperation.

- Mr. Gaughan, you may proceed.

- Can you, Mr. Grimm,

tell the subcommittee how it was

that your boy met his sudden end

on the evening

of August 20th, 1950?

Now, I realize

it is an unsolved murder,

but tell us

what you know.

He'd worked all day for me,

come home dirty and tired

in his work clothes.

He was away all evening,

which was unusual.

He never left the house

without telling us.

I found him the next morning

in a very...

grotesque, weird situation

that I've never been able

to cope with

or understand yet.

He was um...

trussed up

in a very unnatural position.

Looked like it had

been planned in some way.

He wasn't hung like

most people hang themselves

by the neck from a rope.

And the fact that he didn't

have any clothes on...

he was a modest boy...

led me immediately to believe

that there was

some sex angle to it.

Mr. Grimm, do you recognize, sir,

that booklet,

entitled

"Cartoon and Model Parade,"

published by Irving Klaw

the Pin-up King?

- Yes.

- Would you tell the Subcommittee

how you first came across

a copy of this book?

Through a mutual friend

who was interested

in the case.

I found very similar pictures

of tying people up in this book

that reminded me

of my son's case.

I've never come across

anything like that before.

I was looking for a clue.

Sir, let me direct your attention

specifically to page four.

That picture illustrates

a model named Bettie Page.

Does that accurately

reflect how your boy was found?

It's more or less the same...

a very similar position.

I haven't had the police into it.

They let the case rest.

They said it was

some sort of accident

due to some impulse

on the part of the boy.

I-I don't care

what the police think.

The way he was tied... it wasn't

anything any youngster like him

with his character

could concoct himself.

There wasn't any history of that,

no similar action on his part.

He led an outdoor life.

He was active

in the boy scouts

from the time he was

a little bit of a fellow.

He had only been home

for two days from boys' camp

in Tennessee when...

when I found him.

I feel he could not

have put himself

into this position

of his own making.

It... it had to be

brought to his attention

either by someone else

showing him how

or he saw

a picture of it.

I do feel there is

a definite connection

between this sort of thing

and his death.

And I also feel there is

a definite evil to this,

and I'm bound and determined

to do what I can to suppress it.

This is not

a healthy situation!

It's not wholesome.

There's nothing cultural about it.

It's just no damn good!

And that's all I got

to say about it.

- Miss Page?

- Yes, sir?

Your testimony is no longer necessary.

You can go now.

What do you mean?

I've been sitting here for 12 hours.

Why is it no longer

necessary?

They didn't give

an explanation, ma'am.

Do I have to come

back tomorrow?

No, ma'am.

They said they won't need you anymore.

You can go.

Our girls had fun doing this.

A fetish?

Do you got a fetish?

I don't got a fetish.

All we were interested in

was taking pictures and making money.

We gotta burn them...

burn up those negatives

- and they'll get off our backs.

- Are you crazy?

After all that work?

Years and years of work.

I've had it. Come on,

there's no point anymore.

The lawyers, the money...

I'm gonna get out of here

and retire to Florida,

sit in the sun

and enjoy life.

All this stuff's

wearing me out.

"You needn't try

to comfort me.

I haven't come here

on any but equal terms.

You said, 'Let's talk truthfully.'

Well, let's do.

Unsparingly, truthfully,

even shamelessly then.

It's no longer a secret

that I love you. It never was.

I loved you as long ago

as the time I asked you

to read the stone angel's name

with your fingers.

Yes, I remember the long

afternoons of our childhood,

when I had to stay indoors

to practice my music

and I heard the playmates

calling you...

'Johnny! Johnny!"'

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Thanks for coming in.

It's quite a treat to meet

the notorious Bettie Page.

Send the next one in.

Let's get out of here,

make a fresh start.

Look at what this life

is doing to you.

Hey, Bettie.

Bettie!

Bettie?

Bettie?

Bettie.

Sweetheart, do you

want something to eat?

Oh, my God...

tonight, I know that

first things come first

and the most important

thing of all

is that men and women

and young people

surrender their lives

to Christ.

God, don't let

a mother's boy

who heard me preach here tonight

go to hell.

Don't let a mother's girl

who heard me tonight go to hell.

Don't let a daddy or a mother

who heard me preach tonight go to hell.

- Save them!

- Amen.

Save them tonight...

from all their sins.

May they be born again,

washed in the blood,

saved through and through

without the loss of any,

I pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Did you get

saved tonight?

Didn't quite make it,

but you came up

and made a stand,

didn't you?

- What's your name?

- Bettie.

Are you ready for me

to pray for you, Bettie?

- Yes, sir.

- Good.

O, Father,

we ask You that You deliver

this woman from sin.

Destroy it

by the spirit of God.

Heal her through and through,

including her heart.

Make her a new creature

in Christ.

What did you say?

A wonderful...

- a wonderful feeling.

- Did it come then?

Yes, sir.

I believe it did.

- What did it feel like?

- It was, uh...

- a lifting up.

- You felt a lifting up?

Well...

amen.

"And God shall wipe

all tears from their eyes

and there shall be

no more death,

neither sorrow,

nor crying,

neither shall there be

any more pain,

for the former things

are passed away.

And He that sat

upon the throne said,

'Behold, I make

all things new."'

- You're Bettie Page, aren't you?

- Yes, I am.

Bettie Page the Pin-Up

Queen of the Universe?

What, what

happened to you?

I've turned my life

over to the Lord.

- No kidding.

- I left all that behind me.

God doesn't want me

to pose anymore.

Oh, no offense meant.

Your pictures were pretty tame.

The stuff they sell now on

the newsstands'll make your hair curl.

You don't have to be ashamed

of what you did.

I'm not ashamed.

Adam and Eve were naked

in the Garden of Eden, weren't they?

When they sinned,

they put on clothes.

"And He said unto me,

'It is done.

I am Alpha and Omega...

the beginning and the end.

I will give unto him that

is athirst of the fountain

of the water

of life freely.

He that overcometh

shall inherit all things

and I will be his God,

and he will be My son.

But the fearful,

and unbelieving..."'

- How's it going?

- Oh, fine, almost finished.

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