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Undoubtedly Britain's most popular and successful porn stars of the 1970S.

Mary found fame in David Sullivan's 1977 sex comedy Come Play with Me, directed by Harrison Marks. This was followed by The Playbirds 1978 Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair 1979 and Queen of the Blues also 1979. Other sex movies included, Eskimo Nell 1975, Intimate Games 1976, What's Up Superdoc! 1978, and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle 1979, she also penned her biography The Amazing Mary Millington in 1979.

Mary committed suicide at her home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, aged 33.

Here we have the fabulous Mary Millington (aka Maxted ) showing us why she has been celebrated since her untimely death in 1979.

I can remember first coming across Mary Millington in Playbird and various other mags back in 1978. I was 14, probably shouldn't have been in my big brothers bedroom, and just discovering girls.

Mary Millington has always fascinated me since the first time I saw her name emblazoned in David Sullivan's publications, her films advertised, and of course her pictures, always that little more daring, pushing the boundaries. Mary looked saucy and friendly, a combination that made her a fortune. More was the Private sex Shops, with the blacked-out front windows, the shop nobody "apparently" wanted, but still remains in Norbury South East London today, there 2 miles from my home, on the wrong end of the high St, ironically opposite Norbury Police Station, sometimes Mary would make a personal appearance, this made her human, approachable, and only that blacked out glass door away, wishing only I had the balls to go in, but alas at 14 they probably hadn't dropped yet. Mary Millington was a star, I'd seen her name in lights in the west end, and now she seemed accessible via the shop. Then in 1980, on the second nights screening in Piccadilly of the "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" I was to see Mary with my hero's The Sex Pistols for the first time at the movies, incredibly her last performance, leaving only memories of her at her peak.31 years later, Mary Millington is still a legend. Discover these images for the first time....

Hi Kev.
I have proof that Mary Maxted [her married name] posed for glamour shots as late as 1975 and further proof that in those photo's that indeed was the year they were took. I started with this hypothesis and have I think through my research proved it, but if nothing else is to be believed the 'Span' mag I have is absolute proof that not only did Mary pose for hardcore and other photo's, she continued to pose for glamour shots using her married name. Now considering she used her married name as she did not meet Sullivan until 1976, he named her Millington] she only used Quilter [her birth name] Out of respect for her family, indeed her mother. She used this name only in the likes of Titbits etc, she must have posed as Maxted as early as 1971, in an issue of the porn mag Rapier, Mary was posing nude but not 'open legged'
so it can be derived from this that Mary continued to model in loads of mags up until late 1975 [dec] I think then she met Sullivan. In 1976 he changed her name to Millington to invent and further augment Mary by saying she was the sister of former Whitehouse editor Doreen Millington. Furtherto in x2 fashion books and hairstyles of the 70S I can prove using Sears American cat that Mary wore the then wedge shoes popular 1974-76 they are in your transparency's. The hairstyle was called the Flick, Mary has the same Hairstyle in the aforementioned 'Span mag which I will take pics of and send you. She also has the buck teeth, proof I think this is definitely pre Sullivan days, as he paid to get them sorted for her. Stephanie Marrian [her that graced the 'Sun' had the same hairstyle with just a bit more curl in 1975 so I can derive from this that these dates although approx are indeed of the year 1975. The skirt blouse etc are American clothes of the 70S, my research tells me Mary did indeed a lot of her shopping there "only the best for her" She financed her visit to America by prostituting herself and making hardcore movies for John Lindsay [the Scot photographer who handed her over to Sullivan] it is proven this took place in 1975-6 yet in the Span mag, which incidentally is dated she was still doing glamour, this overrun is I think coupled with the facts I have uncovered proof that Mary as Mary Maxted was indeed doing glamour, porno and film at that juncture in time.

( courtesy of Ray )

Most people who remember the name Mary Millington could be forgiven thinking "Queen of 70'S porn" but as we reveal Mary was much more then that.

Mary's modeling career started as early as 1969 with "Span" magazine, during the early 70'S under various pseudonyms, all 4"11 of her appeared in virtually every major publications in the adult market.Her career weaving from mainstream women's magazines like "Tit-bits" to Paul Raymond's "Club International" by the mid 70'S Mary had ventured into hard core porn.

The images from the Grierson archive capture Mary at June Palmers Strobe Studio in 1975, still under her married name of Maxted, it was another 2 years before David Sullivan would name her Millington,

by 1979 Mary was fighting shoplifting/porn charges, crusading to change the obscenity laws, raising money for charities, and had acquired a cocaine habit. The pressure finally got the better of her when the police threatened jail,and the taxman demanded £1000,000.