From Steve Coogan and director Michael Winterbottom, the team behind 24 Hour Party People, Cock and Bull Story and The Trip, comes the fast, funny and outrageously true story of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur and property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar and went on to become Britain’s Continue Reading
Naked(er) as Nature Intended
I would like to thank Gavcrimson for allowing me to re-post this article from his blog. I recently managed to get hold of the US version of Naked As Nature Intended (1961), and was pleasantly surprised to find a very different version of the film than the one I’d previously encountered Continue Reading
Vicki Martin and The Maharajah of Cooch-Behar
The photographer George Harrison Marks married Vivienne Warren his second wife in 1963. According to The News of the World at the time Vivienne Warren was the sister of Vicki Martin. I haven’t been able to confirm this. George was notorious for making things up. Different surnames and a big Continue Reading
Rita Landre and Pamela Green together
He’s an extremely rare picture of Pamela Green with Rita Landre together. It was taken for the book Pamela that was printed by Luxor Press (ca 1956). George and Pam received a few copies of the book, but they never got paid. Their prints and transparencies were never returned either. The book has 66 Continue Reading
Season’s Greetings
Every year Pamela Green and George Harrison Marks would send out a custom Christmas card. This is the image from the front of their card in 1961, the year the film Naked as Nature Intended came out. The caption inside reads “Well — Do YOU read the small print on contracts!” Continue Reading
Jean Sporle
Jean Spaul (a.k.a. Jean Sporle) was a model who worked for Pamela Green and George Harrison Marks in the early days of Kamera. She was born in London and was evacuated during the Blitz, but returned once the war was over. She got a job as a typist and on one Continue Reading
Jean Straker and The Visual Arts Club
A 1950s contemporary of Pamela Green’s was the photographer Jean Straker. An interesting character by half. To my knowledge, he never photographed Pamela, but she did have a copy of his book, The Nudes of Jean Straker, on her shelf. I feel as if Jean Straker was too arty and Continue Reading
Daily Express, Monday 10 April, 1961
Pam loses £4000 gems to night raiders Detectives will question 20 girl models today to help solve a robbery at photographer Harrison Marks’ flat. The Raiders struck on Saturday night and stole £4000 worth of jewellery belonging to his wife model Pamela Green, and over £6000 in cash. The gems Continue Reading
Stanley Long (1933 – 2012)
Sad news, I’m afraid. The British exploitation movie producer Stanley Long died in Buckinghamshire on 10 September 2012. He was 78. His early career was very similar to that of George Harrison Marks’. He started as a pin-up photographer (for the magazine Photo Studio), went on to produce 8mm striptease films (Stag Continue Reading
Joan Craven (1897–1979)
Above a photograph of Pamela Green by Joan Craven, who photographed Pam several times. Joan shared studios with Walter Bird at Kinocrat House on the Cromwell Road, London. Don’t have much information about her. If you can help please email me or post something. Below is the text from a short article in Continue Reading