2026 Sarasota Film Festival
Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager
Documentary
The scintillating story of Miami’s Bunny Yeager, a trailblazing model, designer, and photographer who popularized the bikini, invented the selfie, discovered Bettie Page, and introduced feminist agency in sexy pictures in the ’50s.
Directed by Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch

Screening Details
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 8:30 PM EDT
Ends 9:43 PM EDT
Regal Hollywood screen #7
About This Event
Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for both the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic...till now. Dennis Scholl’s incisive, entertaining documentary, with comments from Yeager's adult children and testimonies from cultural icons such as photographer Bruce Weber, Dita von Teese, and Larry King, and (of course) chock full of her work, reinstates Bunny as an iconic artist and portrays the evolution of women’s autonomy in postwar America.
In Attendance: Dennis Scholl, Director; Kareem Tabsch, Producer
Cast
Dita Von Teese, Larry King, Hugh Hefner
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