Mary Millington

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Mary Millington
Birthdate:	November 30, 1945
Birth location:	Kenton, Middlesex
Birth name:	Mary Quilter
Date of death:	August 19, 1979
Height:	4' 11" (1.50 m)
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Mary Quilter (November 30, 1945 - August 19, 1979), better known by her stage name Mary Millington, was one of Britain's most successful porn stars of the 1970s, who became well-known thanks to her appearances in millionaire David Sullivan's porn magazines and films.

Known as Britain's version of Linda Lovelace, Mary gained notoriety for her starring role in Sullivan's 1977 sex comedy Come Play with Me. This was followed by roles in The Playbirds (1978), in which she was ironically cast as a policewoman, as well as Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) and Queen of the Blues (1979). She also appeared in other sex movies such as Intimate Games (1976) and Derek Ford's What's Up Superdoc! (1978). Millington's final appearance was in the Sex Pistols film Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle by Julien Temple, which was released in March 1980. Sadly, neither she, nor Sid Vicious lived to see the completion of the movie.

At the height of her fame, Mary committed suicide at her home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, aged just 33, after spiralling into drugs and depression. A posthumous exploitation film about her life was released in London in October 1980, entitled Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions. In 1996 Channel Four television screened a tribute to her entitled Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story featuring an interview with David Sullivan.

Twenty years after her death, the author Simon Sheridan put Mary's life into context in his critically-acclaimed biography Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington.

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Sheridan, Simon 1999. Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington FAB Press ISBN 0-9529260-7-5
Sheridan, Simon 2005. Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema Reynolds & Hearn Books ISBN 1-903111-92-7