After her death, NCROPA founder David Webb wrote: "Mary was a dear, kind person and we much admired her courage in standing up to the bigotry and repression which still so pervades the establishment of this country. It ran continuously at the Moulin Cinema in Great Windmill Street, Soho, London for 201 weeks, from April 1977 to March 1981, [2] [3] which is listed in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the longest-running screening in Britain.

Now four ‘porn audios’, which she recorded to accompany the magazines she posed for, have been pressed onto vinyl for the first time. So we filled our home-grown sex films with chuckles; somehow it made it more comfortable for audiences over here. An appendix by the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Act discusses film censorship and pornography with contributions from E. In 1996, Channel Four screened a tribute to her entitled Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story, featuring an interview with David Sullivan. At the height of her popularity in the late 1970s she starred in the comedy film Come Play With Me, which still holds the record for the longest running single theatrical run in British cinema history.

George was in a bit of a time warp, he forgot at times that it was a sex film he was making", commented Sullivan, "he thought he was making some vaudeville comedy… I thought it was a weird old film".

Of course, Mary was only one of many involved in the 'sexploitation' sex comedies of the 1970s - perhaps the most culturally important, but still one of many. She had a small part in Sullivan's 1977 softcore sex comedy Come Play with Me, alongside Alfie Bass and Irene Handl. 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. By the mid-1970s Mary started securing small supporting roles in British comedies like Eskimo Nell ( 1975) and Keep It Up Downstairs ( 1976).A first-rate job, the book explores an avenue of British cinema that has mostly been swept under the carpet. Her mother's death at age 62 on 17 May 1976, after over 10 years of battling cancer, also affected her deeply, and her behaviour became unpredictable, which led to her breaking up with Sullivan. On Friday evening I was extremely honoured to take a 1970s’ film legend out to dinner in Kensington. People were tiring of traipsing out to the local ODEON to watch sex comedies, preferring to stay at home to watch The Benny Hill Show instead.