Mary Millington | |
|---|---|
 Mary Millington in The Playbirds (1978) | |
| Born | Mary Ruth Quilter 30 November 1945 |
| Died | 19 August 1979 (aged 33) Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England |
| Other names | Nancy Astley, Susan David, Janet Green, Samantha Jones, Karen Young, Marion Ellis, Sally Stevens, Sally Stephens, Rebecca Stephens, June Taylor, Rebecca Wilkinson |
| Height | 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) |
| Spouse |
Robert Maxted (m. 1964–1979) |
Mary Ruth Maxted (née Quilter;[1][2] 30 November 1945 – 19 August 1979), known professionally as Mary Millington from 1974 onwards, was an English model, call girl[3] and pornographic actress. Her appearance in the short softcore film Sex is My Business led to her meeting magazine publisher David Sullivan, who promoted her widely as a model and featured her in the 1977 softcore comedy Come Play With Me, which ran for a record-breaking four years at the same cinema.
In her later years, she faced depression and pressure from frequent police raids on her sex shop. After a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt, she died at home of an overdose of medicine and vodka, aged 33.
Millington has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond.[4]
- ^ Sheridan 1999.
- ^ Birth name cited at "Millington, Mary". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 26 January 2009.
- ^ Upton 2004, p. 43.
- ^ Upton 2004, p. 39.