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Celebrating Mary Millington Day!
Well, 7th April was ‘Mary Millington Day’ in London, when we unveiled a plaque commemorating Come Play with Me and premièred my new film on her incredible life, Respectable – The Mary Millington Story, at the beautiful Regent Street Cinema. … Continue reading
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Tagged Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, Moulin cinema, Nicola Austine, Regent Street Cinema, Respectable film, Soho, Sue Longhurst, Willy Roe
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What a Good Sport!
Titbits magazine was something of a working class British institution. Launched in 1881, it ran for over 100 years, and at its peak was selling over one million copies a week. Unashamedly low-brow and populist, from the 1950s onwards it … Continue reading
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An Intimate Journal
Borrowing its name from the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin, The Journal of Love first hit British news-stands in 1977. Published by Gold Star Publications (already the home of Rustler and New Direction), the magazine was aimed at ‘swinging couples’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Journal of Love magazine, Nicola Austine, Queen of the Blues, Rosemary England
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The Cover Girls of ‘Come Play with Me’
I thought it might just be interesting to see a selection of ‘top shelf’ magazine covers – all featuring photographs of the principal female cast of 1977’s Come Play with Me. So here we have Mary Millington gracing the cover of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bergman, David Sullivan, Lisa Taylor, Nicola Austine, Pat Astley, Penny Chisholm, Playbirds magazine, Private magazine, Sonia Svenberger, Suzette Sangalo Bond, Suzette St Clair, Suzy Mandel, The Playbirds, Whitehouse magazine
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The Return of ‘Nicola Austine’
In the 1970s, the classic era of British ‘sex comedies’ gave rise to a new breed of cinematic icon. From the worlds of The Sun’s Page 3, Mayfair magazine, 8mm porn and TV’s Benny Hill Show came forth a unique … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bergman, Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, Nicola Austine, School for Sex
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Nude Tube
In June 1974 Mary appeared in one of the most unusual magazine pictorials of her entire career. For Fiesta Volume 8, number 6 she was photographed totally naked on a London Underground train. However, these pictures weren’t ‘faked’ in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Colin Ramsay, Fiesta magazine, Nicola Austine, Oxford Circus
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