Kink! tells the story of Bettie Page, 1950's actress and pinup model. She moved to New York from Nashville to pursue an acting career in live television and theatre, and supported herself by modelling for both professional and amateur photographers.

Bondage and fetish photographs of her, taken by brother & sister Irving and Paula Klaw, broke taboos while carefully skirting the contemporaneous definition of pornography. Bettie became the most requested model by their mail-order customers. Senator Estes Kefauver, seeking a cause on which to hang a vice-presidential candidacy, chaired a U.S. Senate Committee investigation into juvenile delinquency. The Senator attempted to implicate the Klaws in the auto-erotic asphixiation death of a Florida teenager, despite the fact that there was no evidence that the boy had ever seen one of their photographs. The accusations, while not immediately successful, changed all of their lives. Irving Klaw destoryed thousands of his negatives to avoid a prison sentence, and Bettie abandoned a promising acting career and disappeared from public view.

More than forty years after her last modelling session, Bettie Page's image continues to resonate in the popular consciousness. Her severe black bangs and often self-designed fetish outfits continue to influence fashion designers, rock stars and models. Website shrines to Bettie, constructed by adoring fans young enough to be her grandchildern, dot the internet. She is the most photographed woman in history, with more magazine appearances than Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford combined, and yet she remains one of the great secrets of the Twentieth Century!

All photos viewed on this webpage are of Bettie Page circa 1950s. Photos are by Irving & Paula Klaw of Movie Star News.