{"id":501,"date":"2012-08-14T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:07:18","slug":"5727-mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"\u20185727 MM\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of publisher David Sullivan\u2019s lesser-known magazine titles of the Seventies was New Blue Exciting Cinema<\/em>, launched in March 1977. Ostensibly created as another platform on which to promote Mary\u2019s new film Come Play with Me<\/em> (released in London on 28 April 1977), Exciting Cinema<\/em> also contained \u2018reviews\u2019 of fictitious X-rated movies. Issue #1 reviewed such \u2018classics\u2019 as Serge Jacquette\u2019s The Dirty Dustman<\/em> and Miroslav Ondracec\u2019s Housewife Hooker<\/em>. The \u2018Continental\u2019-sounding names of the directors and starlets fooled readers into thinking they were looking at stills from mucky imported Euro-porn; they weren\u2019t. Any punter looking for late-night screenings of The Dirty Dustman<\/em> in the fleapits of Soho would be left sorely disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary first featured on the cover of Exciting Cinema<\/em> for issue #7 (September 1977) and then made a return appearance for issue #12. This latter issue, dating from February 1978, is interesting since it shows Mary posing topless next to her beloved motor – a silver 1973 Mercedes-Benz 350SL with blue leather interior. Mary loved her top-of-the-range cars (she also owned a yellow Triumph Stag) and her Merc was emblazoned with a personalised number-plate \u20185727 MM\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Exciting<\/span><\/p>\n

A picture of Mary and her Merc (from the same photo-shoot, taken in the summer of 1977 in Mid Holmwood, Surrey) also appeared on the cover of Continental Film Review<\/em> (coincidentally a \u2018real\u2019 movie magazine) in July 1978. The much-loved Mercedes was wrecked one evening after Mary\u2019s husband, Bob, crashed it into a wall whilst blind drunk, after a night out in Dorking. Mary was absolutely furious, but paid for the car to be repaired. The car\u2019s number-plate changed hands after Mary\u2019s death, and is now registered to a green Range Rover Discovery, but the\u00a0Merc is still out there somewhere, being driven by somebody who probably has little knowledge of its once-famous owner.<\/span><\/p>\n

All words \u00a9 Simon Sheridan 2012-2015<\/span><\/p>\n

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