Tag Archives: Playbirds magazine

On Location: Going Intercontinental

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Simon Sheridan

Throughout her career in the adult industry, Mary supplemented the earnings she made from her modelling assignments by regularly working as an escort to the rich, famous and not-so-famous. In the early-1970s she worked closely alongside fellow model Maureen O’Malley … Continue reading →

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Girl Guides

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Simon Sheridan

Alongside the best-selling monthly Playbirds and Pocket Playbirds magazines, David Sullivan also produced semi-regular Playbirds Erotic Film Guides, designed to publicize his movies, and those he had a hand in distributing during the late-1970s. Issues #1, #2, #5 and #7 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Come Play with Me, Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair, Playbirds Erotic Film Guide, Playbirds magazine, Pocket Playbirds magazine, Queen of the Blues, Rosemary England, The Playbirds | Comments Off

Mary Takes an Easy Ride

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Simon Sheridan

Although Mary’s saucy travels around the UK are usually associated with Playbirds magazine – kicking off in Leeds in issue #1 and ending (posthumously) in Swindon for issue #41 – Mary did appear in travelogues for many of Playbirds’ companion … Continue reading →

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Mary at Home, July 1979

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Simon Sheridan

In hindsight, this picture, taken in July 1979, turned out to be unintentionally poignant. It shows Mary photographed in the upstairs back bedroom of her home at Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. This spacious room, with Oriental-style wallpaper and en-suite bathroom, was where … Continue reading →

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The Cover Girls of ‘Come Play with Me’

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Simon Sheridan

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | Comments Off

King, Queen, Knave…

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Simon Sheridan

One of my very favourite photo-spreads of Mary appears in Volume 6, Number 3 of Knave magazine, dating from March 1974. Originally launched in 1968, Knave was the brainchild of photographer Russell Gay, who marketed it as the slightly classier … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anna Bergman, Colin Ramsay, Ed Alexander, Fiesta magazine, Knave magazine, Playbirds magazine, Whitehouse magazine | Comments Off

Thirteen Tributes

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Simon Sheridan

To Mary’s legion of fans, her death on 19 August 1979 seemed like a wholly unexpected event. Few, if any of them, knew of her cocaine addiction, her long-term battle with acute depression or the difficulties she was experiencing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Listen with Playbirds, Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions, Mary's death, Playbirds magazine, Whitehouse magazine | Comments Off

“A Pocket Beauty”

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Simon Sheridan

David Sullivan has often described Mary to me as “a pocket beauty”. At just 4’11” tall Mary was indeed tiny, although this was never really apparent in her photographs. But perhaps, rather fittingly, Mary was one of the early stars … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Sullivan, George Harrison Marks, Magazine rarities, Playbirds magazine, Pocket Playbirds magazine, Rosemary England | Comments Off

Hold On, I’m Coming!

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Simon Sheridan

I’m fortunate to have a full-set of Mary’s cinema posters in my collection, from her début, Eskimo Nell (1974), to her last, Mary Millington’s World Striptease Extravaganza (1981). I own some oddities too, including a very scarce MM triple-bill from as late as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ajita Wilson, cinema posters, I'm Coming Your Way, Playbirds magazine, Queen of the Blues, sex cinema | Comments Off

Pulp Fiction

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Simon Sheridan

A full year before Futura books published Mary’s 1978 autobiography The Amazing Mary Millington, another ‘version’ of her incredible life also hit newsagents’ shelves. Whilst The Amazing Mary Millington was a curious muddle of half-truths, tall tales and downright lies, … Continue reading →

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