The Amazing Mary Millington

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She was also a high-end sex worker who felt no shame in her chosen trade, being an enthusiastic, controversial, advocate of sexual liberation, with all the unwelcome attention from the authorities such a stance attracted, as attributed in her suicide notes.

Contains the largest collection of Millington movie memorabilia ever seen together in print as well as hundreds of photographs from her modelling career, the book reveals never-beofre-published shots from her family album.She had few inhibitions about sex and nudity, and after making some immensely successful 8mm films in Germany and The Netherlands, Mary began a relationship with publisher David Sullivan, who promoted her relentlessly in his stable of magazines, the most famous of which was Whitehouse - a cheeky sideswipe at Mary Whitehouse, the infamous pro-censorship campaigner. She appeared in other sex movies such as Eskimo Nell (1975), Intimate Games (1976) and Derek Ford's What's Up Superdoc!

Written, directed and produced by Mary Millington's biographer Simon Sheridan, the film mixes archive footage, previously unseen photographs and interviews with Millington's family, friends and co-stars, including David Sullivan, Pat Astley, Dudley Sutton, Linzi Drew and Flanagan.Much of the glamour in the film was provided by nude models popular in Sullivan's top-shelf magazines at the time (Millington, Pat Astley, Penny Chisholm, Nicola Austin), as well as more mainstream comedy actresses like Ingmar Bergman’s daughter Anna Bergman, Sue Longhurst and Suzy Mandel from The Benny Hill Show. From her quiet childhood in Surrey, through to her accidental introduction to hardcore pornography, her subsequent superstar notoriety, and her tragic death at the age of just 33 in 1979, Mary Millington's life story is both moving and surprising. Her sex comedy Come Play With Me still holds the record for the longest-ever theatrical engagement in British cinema history.

A fan letter of dubious authenticity (as it refers to scenes that do not appear in the film) from "Bert U" to Mary Millington in issue 27 of Whitehouse claims: "Dear Mary, I must congratulate you on your film Come Play with Me, I found it screamingly funny and very sexy as well…I loved every randy moment… everyone was so natural, and Henry McGhee [sic] as the PM was superb.The film subsequently made its internet debut on 26 July 2008 at the (now defunct) site ZDD Visual Explosion. Between 1975 and 1982, there was always at least one of Millington's films playing in London's West End. On Monday 22 August 2022, Mary Millington’s most famous films – Come Play with Me (1977) and The Playbirds (1978) will be reissued as single discs by Screenbound International Pictures.