National News magazine number 4 MINT Mary Millington on HMS Otter

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The film received its world premiere at London's Regent Street Cinema in April 2016. [34] A DVD of the film was released in the UK on 2 May 2016. [35] Selected filmography [ edit ] Here is a (granted, far from complete) list of the magazines Mary appeared in. It falls apart a bit when it comes to the Sullivan ones which were never dated, as listing the Sullivan titles chronologically is pretty impossible then, I?ve listed some of them in bulk though obviously the likes of Playbirds, Whitehouse, National News, would have been published simultaneously. Suffice to say she probably appears in one form or the other in every Sullivan publication from her launch in the magazines in June 1975 till her death in August 1979, then of course there were various ?tribute? magazines that Sullivan was still turning out till the mid-eighties. 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. Hunt, Leon (1998). British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation. Routledge. ISBN 9780415151832. HMS Otter (1778) was a 14-gun sloop, the former French merchantman Glanure, that the royal Navy captured in 1778 and sold in 1783. She then became the merchantman and slave ship Cyclops. The French captured her in December 1795 as she was delivering her third cargo of slaves to the West Indies.

As designed for British service, the Oberon-class submarines were 241 feet (73m) in length between perpendiculars and 295.2 feet (90.0m) in length overall, with a beam of 26.5 feet (8.1m), and a draught of 18 feet (5.5m). [2] Displacement was 1,610 tons standard, 2,030 tons full load when surfaced, and 2,410 tons full load when submerged. [2] Propulsion machinery consisted of 2 Admiralty Standard Range 16 VMS diesel generators, and two 3,000 shaft horsepower (2,200kW) electric motors, each driving a 7-foot diameter (2.1m) 3-bladed propeller at up to 400 rpm. [2] Top speed was 17 knots (31km/h; 20mph) when submerged, and 12 knots (22km/h; 14mph) on the surface. [2] Eight 21-inch (530mm) diameter torpedo tubes were fitted (six facing forward, two aft), with a total payload of 24 torpedoes. [2] The boats were fitted with Type 186 and Type 187 sonars, and an I-band surface search radar. [2] The standard complement was 68: 6 officers, 62 sailors. [2] Birth name cited at "Millington, Mary". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 26 January 2009. In 2004, Millington's prominence was recognized by her inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, [27] edited by Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison. Her entry was written by Richard Davenport-Hines.

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However, in her later years, she faced depression and pressure from frequent police raids on her sex shop. After a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt, she died at home of an overdose of medications and vodka when she was 33 years-old. 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]

Millington self-identified as bisexual and said that she preferred lesbian sex. [30] Respectable – The Mary Millington Story (2015) [ edit ] Sheridan's film features talking heads interviews from colleagues, friends and former lovers including adult magazine publisher David Sullivan, Radio 1 DJ Dave Cash, Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Linzi Drew, Edward Tudor Pole, Stanley Long and Diana Dors and Alan Lake's son, Jason (his parents don't come out of this too well; Lake is described as a volatile drunk and leech, whilst Dors is something of a pimp who even asked Millington to be her son's 16th birthday present to 'break him in'). One person declined to be interviewed however, and that's Millington's husband, Bob. Given that, at the time of her death, the pair were negotiating a divorce which, it is said, Bob was unhappy with the financial arrangements of, much suspicion has landed on the man who ultimately became the sole beneficiary of his wife's will and contributors to the film who lean towards the theory that Millington's death was not as cut and dried as the coroner's inquest found air their suspicions here. Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen stars: tragic lives and lost careers. Headpress/Critical Vision. ISBN 9781900486385. David Sullivan's magazines were often undated, as such the only way of dating them is by which Sullivan-produced films were being promoted inside the magazines, i.e. a Sullivan magazine which promotes Come Play With Me would be from 1976/1977, ones promoting The Playbirds would be circa 1978, and ones promoting Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair would be from 1979. See also [ edit ]

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A real labour of love for writer/producer and director Simon Sheridan who had previously written both Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington and Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, key texts concerning the British sexploitation industry of the 1970s and its biggest star, Mary Millington.