| Pamela Green | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 28, 1929[1] Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK |
| Died | May 7, 2010 (aged 81), Isle of Wight, England, UK |
| Other names | Rita Landre, Princess Sonmar Harricks |
Pamela Green (March 28, 1929, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England – May 7, 2010[1][2]) was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass, Horace Roye, and John Everard.
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Born as Phyllis Pamela Green, she started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more. Early in her career Pamela Green was photographed by Bill Brandt while still at art college, Zoltán Glass and Angus McBean.
In 1954 Pamela started to supply the bookshops and newsagents of London's Soho with her own postcard sets of glamour photographs, to supplement her work as a photographer's model. In 1955 Luxor Press published a pictorial monograph on Pamela featuring the photographs of George Harrison Marks, entitled Pamela.
Her rising profile prompted her to set up Kamera Publications Ltd with George. With Green as Managing Director, they produced several magazines, with Kamera being the most successful. It was the first glamour magazine of any note in the UK, and heralded the top-shelf magazine industry in the country. As their success grew they ventured into 8mm cine film production.
Following her divorce from Guy Hillier, she moved in with Harrison Marks and took his name, but they never actually married. In 1961 their personal relationship ended but she continued to be part of the business. By the mid-sixties Harrison Marks was increasingly preoccupied by film making. Kamera ceased publication in 1968. He always acknowledged his debt to Pamela Green and said in his biography The Naked Truth, "Pam set me up. She started it all."
She starred in Michael Powell's psychological thriller Peeping Tom (1960). In 1964 she appeared in an episode of This Week.
Green continued to model for the photographer Douglas Webb, her last partner, a former war hero of the Dambusters raid. She became Webb's camera stills assistant and worked for the major movie companies in London. In 1986, Green and Webb moved to the Isle of Wight.
Pamela Green died from leukaemia, aged 81, on the Isle of Wight on May 7, 2010.