One of my favourite heist movies is Basil Dearden’s The League of Gentleman (1960). A crack team of lovable rogues is assembled by a charming mastermind to rob a bank. Getting away with it for this group of dissatisfied ex-servicemen is only half the job as civilian irritations start to Continue Reading
The Pool of Enchantment
Another publication from the Naturist. This time The Pool of Enchantment: Reflections on the Naturist Movement. First published in 1950, but reprinted for the third time in 1956. 64 pages with 24 pages of photographic studies of the nude by Stephen Glass. Being a font nerd I rather like the Continue Reading
X-ploits in Fitzrovia
The pin-up photographer George Harrison Marks has always been associated with Soho. Besides having his studio in Gerrard Street he lived there with Pamela Green in the 1950s before moving to a flat in The Wabe in Hampstead. But what about his relationship with Fitzrovia. At the film laboratories where Continue Reading
The Wabe in Reddington Road
Here’s a wonderful picture of Jean Spaul on the balcony of Pam and George’s flat in Reddington Road, where she stayed for a couple of months. Pam and George bought this flat after they stopped living in Gerrard Street. The flat was in a rambling house called The Wabe in Continue Reading
Douglas Webb — Shutterbug for the Heavy Mob (The Sweeney)
Pamela Green’s partner Douglas Webb worked for Euston Films in the 1970s on such shows as The Sweeney and Special Branch as a stills photographer. The Sweeney was the epitome of the 1970s hard-boiled cop shows. It ran for 52 episodes over four years. Two feature films were also made. Continue Reading
Kamera Cine Films
Publishers, such as George Harrison Marks quickly realised the potential 8mm film offered and before long the come hither curves of June Palmer, Vicky Kennedy and Paula Page were actually moving. It was like having a new girlfriend but without the Saturday night seduction — they disrobed at the flick Continue Reading
Sun Bathing Review
In the 1950s few magazines would publish nude photos. The exception was those that focussed on the naturist and nudist lifestyle. It’s no surprise then to learn that Pamela Green regularly appeared in such magazines as Health and Efficiency and the Sun Bathing Review. She appeared on the cover of Continue Reading
Princess Sonmar Roughs It
A still from the set of Gypsy Fire (1961), an 8mm film that featured Sonmar H’Arriks, who was introduced to the readers of Kamera back in the autumn of 1958. Sonmar was supposedly a Princess from Morocco. How she ended up hanging out with a bunch of gypsies, we will Continue Reading
Dambusters 75th Anniversary
This week marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Chastise, in which the RAF secured a crucial victory at the height of the Second World War by dropping Barnes Wallis’s “bouncing bomb” on the dams in Germany’s industrial heartland. A total of 133 aircrew left for the raid on board 19 Lancaster bombers. Continue Reading
Paris to Piccadilly
One of the stage productions Pamela Green starred in was the Folies-Bergère review Paris to Piccadilly at the Prince of Wales Theatre, in which Norman Wisdom appeared in half-a-dozen sketches scattered through the show. Pam found working at the Prince of Wales Theatre was a vast improvement on the London Casino Continue Reading