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Pamela Green | |
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| Born | Phyllis Pamela Green (1929-03-28)28 March 1929 |
| Died | 7 May 2010(2010-05-07) (aged 81) |
| Other names | Rita Landre, Princess Sonmar Harricks |
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| Partners | George Harrison Marks (1953–1961) Douglas Webb (196?–1996) |
| Website | https://pamela-green.com |
Phyllis Pamela Green (28 March 1929 – 7 May 2010)[1] was an Englishglamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled forZoltán Glass and his brotherStephen,Bill Brandt,Joan Craven,Bertram Park,George Pickow andJohn Everard.
Pamela Green was born inKingston upon Thames,Surrey, England on 28 March 1929.[2] She grew up inWest Wickham, after which she attendedSaint Martin's School of Art in central London; she started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more.[3] She also worked as a dancer[4] and appeared in the Latin Quarter at The London Casino (aka Prince Edward Theatre) and Bernard Delfont'sFolies Bergère at the Hippodrome, London. Early in her career, while still at art college, Pamela Green was photographed byBill Brandt,Zoltán Glass andAngus McBean.[3]
In 1954 Green started to supply the bookshops and newsagents of London'sSoho with her own postcard sets of glamour photographs, to supplement her work as a photographer's model. In 1955 Luxor Press published a pictorial monograph on Green featuring the photographs ofGeorge Harrison Marks, entitledPamela.
Her rising profile prompted her to set up Kamera Publications Ltd with Harrison Marks. With Green as Managing Director, they produced several magazines, withKamera being the most successful. It was the first glamour magazine of any note in the UK, and heralded the top-shelf magazine industry in the country. As their success grew they ventured into 8mm cine film production,[5] which was the format commonly used for home viewing.
Her first film appearance was inMichael Powell's psychological thrillerPeeping Tom (1960). Green appeared in thenudist filmNaked as Nature Intended (1961),[3] released in the United States asAs Nature Intended, written and directed by Marks.
In 1961, Green's personal relationship with Marks ended, but they continued their business relationship. By the mid-'60s Harrison Marks was increasingly preoccupied by film making.Kamera ceased publication in 1968. He always acknowledged his debt to Pamela Green and said in his biographyThe Naked Truth, "Pam set me up. She started it all." In 1964 she appeared in an episode ofThis Week.[6]
Green continued to model for her then-partner, the photographerDouglas Webb. She became Webb's camera stills assistant and worked for the major film companies in London. In 1992 she wrote the foreword toDavid McGillivray's bookDoing Rude Things,[3] which was reprinted in 2017. A television version ofDoing Rude Things was produced by the BBC in 1995, in which she was interviewed.[1]
In September 1951, Green married stagehand Guy Hillier, however, they separated after one month and eventually got divorced in 1965.[7] From 1953 to 1961 she lived with George Harrison Marks and took his name. Her third partner was the photographer Douglas Webb,[3] with whom Green lived until his death in December 1996. At first they lived in a Victorian villa on theIsle of Wight and in 1993 they moved to a terraced house in Yarmouth, where Green was a member of the Yarmouth Women's Institute.
Pamela Green died fromleukaemia, aged 81, on the Isle of Wight on 7 May 2010.[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1960 | Peeping Tom | Milly | |
| 1961 | Naked as Nature Intended | Pamela | |
| 1961 | The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Shower steward | Uncredited |
| 1961 | Badland Big'eads | Short | |
| 1963 | The Chimney Sweeps | Maid | |
| 1967 | The Naked World of Harrison Marks | Herself | |
| 1968 | Otto und die nackte Welle | Model | |
| 1975 | Legend of the Werewolf | Anne-Marie |
