Millington has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond. [3] David Sullivan described her as "the only really uninhibited, natural sex symbol that Britain ever produced and who believed in what she did". [22] Between 1975 and 1982, there was always at least one of Millington's films playing in London's West End. [23]

However, in her later years, she faced depression and pressure from frequent police raids on her sex shop. After a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt, she died at home of an overdose of medications and vodka when she was 33 years-old. Millington self-identified as bisexual and said that she preferred lesbian sex. [30] Respectable – The Mary Millington Story (2015) [ edit ] Sheridan's film features talking heads interviews from colleagues, friends and former lovers including adult magazine publisher David Sullivan, Radio 1 DJ Dave Cash, Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Linzi Drew, Edward Tudor Pole, Stanley Long and Diana Dors and Alan Lake's son, Jason (his parents don't come out of this too well; Lake is described as a volatile drunk and leech, whilst Dors is something of a pimp who even asked Millington to be her son's 16th birthday present to 'break him in'). One person declined to be interviewed however, and that's Millington's husband, Bob. Given that, at the time of her death, the pair were negotiating a divorce which, it is said, Bob was unhappy with the financial arrangements of, much suspicion has landed on the man who ultimately became the sole beneficiary of his wife's will and contributors to the film who lean towards the theory that Millington's death was not as cut and dried as the coroner's inquest found air their suspicions here. 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.

Something wrong? Let us know! Respectable: The Mary Millington Story - watch online: streaming, buy or rent Nancy Astley, Susan David, Janet Green, Samantha Jones, Karen Young, Marion Ellis, Sally Stevens, Sally Stephens, Rebecca Stephens, June Taylor, Rebecca Wilkinson Extras: Audio Commentary. Sam Dunn from the BFI discusses the making of Respectable with its writer/director/producer, Simon Sheridan. Something wrong? Let us know! Respectable: The Mary Millington Story streaming: where to watch online?

Sheridan, Simon (1999). Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington. FAB Press. ISBN 9780952926078. Respectable - The Mary Millington Story". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016 . Retrieved 3 April 2016. Soon after becoming a glamour model, she met the glamour photographer and pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay, who offered to photograph her for softcore magazines. She became one of his most popular models [4] and began appearing in 8mm hardcore pornographic film loops which sold well in Europe. [3] One of her first films was Miss Bohrloch [a] in 1970. [3] Miss Bohrloch won the Golden Phallus Award at the Wet Dream Festival held in November 1970 in Amsterdam. [8] She starred in around twenty short hardcore films for John Lindsay, [9] 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. [9] 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). [10] The life of 1970s Soho porn legend Mary Millington is the subject of a feature-length documentary due for release next spring, and a 30 second teaser trailer has been released today to mark what would have been her 70th birthday. Birth name cited at "Millington, Mary". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 26 January 2009.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. Mary was pretty much a lone figure in the fight against censorship during the 1970s. Sadly, she paid the ultimate price." McGillivray, David (2017). Doing rude things: the history of the British sex film, 1957-1981 (2nded.). Wolfbait. ISBN 978-1999744151.

Sheridan, Simon. "The Mary Millington Movie Collection Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set". Cinema Retro (Interview). Interviewed by Smith, Adrian.

Respectable teaser trailer plus 2015 teaser trailer for Respectable, originally released on what would have been Mary Millington’s 70th birthday.