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]

Stream It or Skip It: ‘Faraway Downs’ on Hulu, A Laudable Expansion of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ That Tries To Repair The Sins Of The PastSheridan, Simon. "The Mary Millington Movie Collection Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set". Cinema Retro (Interview). Interviewed by Smith, Adrian. Mary was a glamour model-turned-porn-star who became the most famous and notorious character of the dirty mac brigade in the seventies. She was reviled in public, but beloved in private, and by some of the most powerful figures in the country. Respectable covers all aspects of the star’s life, from her humble upbringing to her rise to sex superstardom and rather unorthodox business practices. If that sounds tonally all over the shop, The Playbirds just about holds it together through sheer chutzpah. Imagine, if you will, The Sweeney as directed by Pete Walker or Derek Ford, with just a tang of giallo as detective Gavin Campbell (Yes, that’s right – one of ‘Esther’s boys’ from That’s Life) races in hot pursuit of the mystery assailant, not to mention the film’s downbeat ending.

Mary married Bob Maxted when she was eighteen, and he remained her husband to the end of her life, though it was an open marriage from early on. The Sixties and Seventies were a time when the last vestiges of Victorian morality were breaking down, with their replacement by modern day taboos some way off. Stories of suburban swinging and the legendary 'wife swapping' parties were rife, TV programmes with sex scenes and partial nudity abounded, and for a time, newsagents and corner shops up and down the land were festooned with scores of different soft core sex magazines to an extent unimaginable today. Some of these were becoming increasingly explicit, particularly those owned by David Sullivan, and it was these that brought Mary her fame. With proper help (if she had been prepared to accept it) Mary might well have got through her problems, especially her relationship with her mother and the effect of her death, and gone on to make her mark as an actress or elsewhere, but sadly that is purely hypothetical.Big-screen documentary about the troubled career and tragic end of the 1970s UK adult film actress. Born in 1945, she endured regular bullying at school due to her illegitimacy, leaving at 15 with no qualifications. At 18 she entered into a sham marriage, and soon after that began nursing her terminally ill mother (ultimately for ten years). Not tall enough to fulfill her dream of being a fashion model, she began a career in porn to help pay for her mother's care. But despite the unnecessary length and unsubstantiated stories surrounding her death, Respectable – The Mary Millington Story does show all sides of Mary’s complex character and paints a picture of a tragic young woman unable to cope with the dark side of fame and who ultimately just wanted to be accepted for what she was, and that was somebody not afraid to shake things up and who was not embarrassed or ashamed by what she did for a living. Actor Dexter Fletcher’s easy-going narration helps frame each section of Mary’s life without intruding over the contributors and, of course, the clips from several of Mary’s porno films provide plenty of visual aids in case the audio descriptions aren’t enough. Like any documentary, if you’ve a keen interest in the subject then this’ll be a must-see but if 1970s British pornography and a tale of a tragic life don’t press your buttons then this well-made but overlong film may not be the best introduction. Keep It Up, Sue! In Conversation with Sue Longhurst. Mary Millington’s co-star Sue Longhurst talks about her career in saucy British sex comedies and recalls the making of Come Play with Me. McGillivray, David (2017). Doing rude things: the history of the British sex film, 1957-1981 (2nded.). Wolfbait. ISBN 978-1999744151.