Millington was buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, in South Holmwood, Surrey, marked by a grey granite tombstone which bears her married name. Klein (1899–1973), [5] Mary was bullied at school owing to being illegitimate, and she suffered from low self-esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years.

And there are plenty of other great, or not-so-great but similarly important, films in the genre too, which I'd love to celebrate in future. And the young actresses, like Mary Millington, are all dressed in nurses' outfits (naturally) and cavort with the old-timers. Millington's health and situation at the time all point to suicide, as do the detailed suicide notes and letters she left, yet the thorny issue of someone who wasn't just a teetotaler but also seemingly had an allergic reaction to alcohol deciding to wash down an overdose of the tricyclic antidepressant anafranil and paracetamol with vodka inevitably persists. Movies like Confessions Of A Window Cleaner ( 1974) work so well because they are chock-a-block with familiar faces; plus there's titillation, slapstick and a solid lead performance, in this case by the wonderful Robin Askwith, who was the Comedy King of sexploitation movies, to Mary's Queen.The documentary explores the appalling double-standards of the Establishment and the Metropolitan Police," says Sheridan, "members of which were secretly consuming the fruits of the Soho vice industry, while at the same time publicly persecuting a woman for simply working in the porn industry. Following the death of her mother after a ten year battle with cancer in 1976, Millington's life began to unravel.

Filled with scintillating new extras, packaged in a collectable case (displaying brand new artwork throughout) and including a huge 80-page book, with an introduction from David Sullivan and notes by biographer Simon Sheridan (author of Keeping The British End Up: Four Decades Of Saucy Cinema). We also have Queen Of The Blues (1979) and posthumous film Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions ( 1980), which is the most eye-opening of the lot. Hiding out at a stately home being run as a health farm, they find it is almost entirely staffed by sexy young women.Screenbound have done a marvellous job, and designers Sam Bessant and Abby Parsons have excelled themselves on this project. He is the world's leading authority on British sexploitation cinema and has written several books on the subject, including Come Play With Me: The Life And Films Of Mary Millington, X-Rated and Keeping The British End Up. She obviously had tremendous pressures put on her as a result and there is no doubt in my mind that these must have contributed to this tragedy. A feature-length documentary chronicling Millington's life, entitled Respectable – The Mary Millington Story, [31] [32] [33] was partly shot and produced at Pinewood Studios in 2015.