Bettie Page Clones

"In 1982, Mr. Stevens created the Rocketeer as a backup feature in a Starslayer comic book published by Pacific Comics. Mr. Stout said that Mr. Stevens’s inspirations for the comic were a combination of his love of the 1930s, early aviation, the film-serial hero Commando Cody and Bettie Page, the 1950s pinup model, on whom he based the hero’s love interest, Betty."

"A lingerie fiesta with some pretensions to art, The Notorious Bettie Page is not the kind of movie those who have graced the cover of Vanity Fair are supposed to turn up in. But Gretchen Mol has not had a conventional career. Like Maggie Gyllenhaal, who allowed herself to be filmed in all sorts of ungainly poses in The Secretary, Mol has taken on a role that many other actresses would have rejected as too tawdry."

"Also nice to look at is the drop-dead gorgeous Mol. She is built a lot like Page, and made-up to be a real ringer for her, too. She conveys an innate wholesomeness that is hard to turn down, and is not modest about baring all when called upon. Her unmodified figure is stunning, too, and by casting such a natural beauty who looks so much the part, we can at least see what the folks who made her famous saw when they hired her and launched her star-ward."

Bettie Page Clones Icons: Gretchen Mol.