PRESS RELEASE

West End Film Premiere for Controversial New Documentary Celebrating 1970s' British Porn Queen Mary Millington

Location:Regent Street Cinema, London

Date:7.00pm on 7 April 2016

A controversial new movie celebrating the golden age of British porn, and its most infamous female star, will get its premiere in the heart of London's colourful West End on 7 April.

In the 1970s there was a pretty English girl-next-door who truly personified the word ‘glamour'. Her rise to the top was meteoric, controversial and scandalous. This 4'11" blonde, discovered by a local photographer, carved a lucrative career from illegally-shot pornography, high-class prostitution, modelling and movies. She became the most famous naked pin-up of the decade, and her racy reputation could sell one of the biggest box office films of all-time.

Her name was Mary Millington - Britain's only genuine sex superstar.

Mary was the girl who fought vigorously against the Establishment, anti-porn campaigner Mary Whitehouse and the Metropolitan police - all for the right to express herself in the way that she wanted.

She became the star of Come Play with Me, which ran continuously at one London cinema for four years, and is still the longest-running movie in British cinema history.

In a few short years Mary had attained the status of ‘Britain's Queen of Sex'. She had an affair with the most powerful man in British publishing, and slept with the famous and not-so-famous; men and women; celebrities, actors, sportsmen and even serving Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

But Mary's sexual bravado hid a darker side. She fought crippling insecurity and struggled to find her voice in a tumultuous decade of social change. Persecuted by the authorities and threatened with a spell in prison, Mary found herself addicted to drugs. Tortured by self-doubt, she died at the height of her fame in August 1979. She was just 33.

For the very first time, Simon Sheridan's enthralling documentary Respectable - The Mary Millington Story reveals the truth behind a British icon and speaks to those who knew her best, including her family, former lovers and co-stars.

Actor Dexter Fletcher narrates a story stranger than any fiction - of lost innocence, sex, fame, fortune and tragedy. This is the shocking, untold, true story of 1970s' rebellion, painted against a backdrop of disco, politics and porn, where a beautiful blonde girl sacrificed herself for her beliefs.

Simon Sheridan says, "Mary has fascinated me all my life, and I'm hugely proud to have the opportunity to bring her incredible story to a brand new audience. It still astonishes me how one glamour model single-handedly challenged British society's archaic attitudes towards pornography."

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For more information, photo opps, or to interview Simon, please contact claire@garfunkelcommunications.co.uk / 07734 702653