In March 1977 Sullivan published the Playbirds Erotic Film Guide, a magazine entirely concerned with the release of Come Play with Me. In another note, to her solicitor Michael Kaye (partly published in Private magazine no 59), Millington wrote "the police have killed me with their threats…the police have made my life a misery with frame ups. In November 1977, magistrates acquitted her and Sullivan following prosecution under the Obscene Publications Acts. According to Simon Sheridan's biography of Millington, "For this stunt Mary was conditionally discharged and bound over to keep the peace". In late 2009, an 8mm copy of one of her early John Lindsay short films Special Assignment resurfaced.

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". Marks also throws in a song-and-dance routine, "It's Great to be Here", performed by himself, Bass, and a group of sexy nurses. Mary Ruth Quilter was born out of wedlock on 30 November 1945, brought up by her single mother, Joan Quilter (19 February 1914 – 17 May 1976), initially in Willesden and later in Mid Holmwood near Dorking.She starred in the sex comedy Come Play With Me, which became the longest running British film of all time — playing at the old Moulin Cinema on Great Windmill Street between 1977-1981. With Sullivan's help she soon elevated to more significant 'above the title' roles in Come Play With Me ( 1977) and The Playbirds ( 1978). Hiding out at a stately home being run as a health farm, they find it is almost entirely staffed by sexy young women. Speaking to us, he explains how her life reveals as much about the 70s as it does about her career: "In the light of recent scandals about MPs and household-name celebrities during the 1970s, Mary's story will make further revelations about the hypocrisy embedded in British society during that tumultuous decade". In the 2005 documentary Oo-Err Missus, Sullivan remarks: "George was a great entertainer, he was a bit of a drunk really, but he was good fun … he said to me: 'I’ve got this old script I’ve had for years', I said: 'give us a look George' and within three weeks we were shooting it".

No such caveats for the last major feature film in this collection, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair. 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.Further information about her career can be found in Sheridan's follow-up book Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, the fourth edition of which was published in April 2011. The Mary Millington Movie Collection’ Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set (Screenbound Pictures) released 22 June 2020. It's no exaggeration to say that by the late-1970s only two British actors could be guaranteed to successfully open a movie: one was Roger Moore, the other was Mary Millington. This surprised the people present, including Suzy Mandel, Whitehouse photographer George Richardson (who took the picture), and the policeman (who tried to confiscate the film). However, following the death of her mother the sex superstar sank into depression, suffered from drug addiction and debt and being found guilty of a string of petty thefts.

Mary Ruth Maxted (née Quilter; [1] [2] 30 November 1945– 19 August 1979), known professionally as Mary Millington from 1974 onwards, was an English model and pornographic actress. It’s sad to see the potential of The Playbirds squandered in this embarrassing dud – even Lake’s missus, the wonderful Diana Dors, phones it in. 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. The Manor has very few guests, and Clapworthy and Kelly find themselves free to continue their criminal activities, albeit having to constantly recite " O for the Wings of a Dove" on a portable organ to drown out the noise of the printing press that produces the fake banknotes. If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4.

In 2004, Millington's prominence was recognized by her inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, [27] edited by Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison.

These would have appeared towards the end of the film; however, in the event all traces of hardcore sex were cut from these scenes in the pre-release stage, and the explicit footage went missing soon afterward. In another note, to David Sullivan, she wrote: "please print in your magazines how much I want porn to be legalised, but the police have beaten me".A first-rate job, the book explores an avenue of British cinema that has mostly been swept under the carpet.