Respectable - The Mary Millington Story [DVD]

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In 2008, an exhibition of the work of the late glamour photographer Fred Grierson was held in London, which included several little-seen pictures of Millington taken by Grierson at June Palmer's Strobe Studios in the early 1970s. [ citation needed]

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Come Play with Me original 1977 trailer plus the British theatrical trailer for Come Play with Me, unseen for nearly 40 years. Confessions of a Pixie – an interview with Josie Harrison Marks, the daughter of Come Play With Me’s director George Harrison Marks.

Respectable - The Mary Millington Story". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016 . Retrieved 3 April 2016. Starring Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Linzi Drew, Jess Conrad, Dudley Sutton, Colin Wills and Pat Astley. Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington - Britain's most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s." Stephen Colbert Forced To Cancel 'The Late Show' This Week After Undergoing Surgery For Ruptured Appendix Simply Media are distributing Respectable – The Mary Millington Story on DVD. Extras on the disc include:

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For anyone with a modicum of interest in the history of the ‘other side’ of British cinema, Respectable is a must-see. The film that Sullivan financed, Come Play With Me, was, after all, the longest-running movie in the West End It’s a riveting and enlightening watchand isn’t afraid to show the tragic side (particularly when it came to Mary’s self-destruction) without being either sensationalist or over-sentimental. One can’t help feel for the poor woman, though after getting to know so much about her. Among the eye-opening revelations are her dalliances with people like sports pundit Jimmy Hill and Prime Minister Harold Wilson; a much better prospect than a dead pig’s head, surely? A posthumous film about her life was released in 1980, entitled Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions. [24] In 1996, Channel Four screened a tribute to her entitled Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story, featuring an interview with David Sullivan. [25] Hunt, Leon (1998). British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation. Routledge. ISBN 9780415151832. For readers (particularly male) of a certain vintage, the name Mary Millington will be rather familiar. A cause célèbre in her day, her tragic story is as fascinating as it is depressing. Keep It Up, Sue! In Conversation with Sue Longhurst. Mary Millington’s co-star Sue Longhurst talks about her career in saucy British sex comedies and recalls the making of Come Play with Me.

However, the UK authorities were adamant that they would not follow the rest of Europe in legitimising the sale of explicit porno films of the 'Deep Throat' variety. Mary was determined to confront them, and soon fell foul of the UK's notorious 'Obscene Publications Act' still in force today, which allowed the authorities to go after material they arbitrarily considered 'likely to deprave and corrupt'. Much police harassment and bullying followed and this, plus her increasing addiction to hard drugs and not least the depression which became worse after the death of her beloved mother, were major factors in her tragic death. Twenty years after her death, the author and film historian Simon Sheridan put Millington's life into context in the biography Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington. Further information about her career can be found in Sheridan's follow-up book Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, the fourth edition of which was published in April 2011. [26]

Mary married Bob Maxted when she was eighteen, and he remained her husband to the end of her life, though it was an open marriage from early on. The Sixties and Seventies were a time when the last vestiges of Victorian morality were breaking down, with their replacement by modern day taboos some way off. Stories of suburban swinging and the legendary 'wife swapping' parties were rife, TV programmes with sex scenes and partial nudity abounded, and for a time, newsagents and corner shops up and down the land were festooned with scores of different soft core sex magazines to an extent unimaginable today. Some of these were becoming increasingly explicit, particularly those owned by David Sullivan, and it was these that brought Mary her fame. Along the way, we hear from those who knew her, loved her, and worked with her. A key figure in Mary’s rise was David Sullivan, who made an empire out of ‘filth’ is open and emphatic about Mary, even letting his usual bravado slip on occasion. Despite the perception of her famous British films being pure porn, they were merely slightly more risqué Carry On movies; populated as much by familiar faces from TV and film as naked ladies. As such, we hear from characters such as Dudley Sutton (best known from TV’s Lovejoy) about how well they got on with Mary and were disgusted at the way the establishment treated her. Françoise Pascal ( Mind Your Language) recounts working with her on Keep it Up Downstairs, and writer/director Michael Armstrong ( Mark of the Devil) and the legendary Stanley Long (who passed away not long after his interview was filmed) have nothing but good memories of Mary. The films themselves when seen on tape in the 1980s were rather bland unfunny smut fests than full on sex films. If it wasn't for magazines like Whitehouse and Playbirds being passed round school playgrounds the Mary Millington of porn legend would have been long forgotten.