Mary Millington
| Mary Millington | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Ruth Quilter 30 November 1945 Kenton, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 19 August 1979 (aged 33) Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England |
| Other names | Nancy Astley, Susan David, Janet Green, Samantha Jones, June Taylor, Karen Young, Sally Stevens, Marion Ellis |
| Height | 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) |
| Spouse(s) | Bob Maxted 1964-1979 (her death) |
Mary Ruth Maxted (née Quilter; 30 November 1945 – 19 August 1979), known professionally as Mary Millington, was an English model and pornographic actress. Her appearance in the short softcore film Sex is My Business led to her meeting with magazine publisher David Sullivan, who promoted her widely as a model, and featured her in the softcore comedy Come Play With Me, which ran for a record-breaking four years at the same cinema. But she soon found herself being replaced by younger models, and this led to a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt. At 33, she died of an overdose.
Millington has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond.
She was born out of wedlock, and grew up without her father, John William G. Klein (1899-1973). She was bullied at school due to being born illegitimately, and suffered from low self-esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years. At a young age she married Robert Maxted, and lived in Dorking. She had to nurse her terminally ill mother for more than ten years, and began her porn career to pay for her care. She became a glamour model in the late 1960s.
Soon after this she met the pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay, and began appearing in 8 mm hardcore porn loops which sold well in Europe. One of her first films was Miss Bohrloch in 1970.Miss Bohrloch won the Golden Phallus Award at the Wet Dream Festival held in November 1970 in Amsterdam. Maxted starred in around twenty short hardcore films for John Lindsay, although only five (Miss Bohrloch, Oral Connection, Betrayed, Oh Nurse and Special Assignment) have so far resurfaced. She then returned to modelling for British pornographic magazines such as Knave and Men Only. She also appeared in softcore short films by Russell Gay (Response, 1974), Mountain Films (Love Games, Wild Lovers) and Harrison Marks (Sex is My Business, c. 1974).
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