Pamela Green

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Pamela Green (born March 28, 1929 in Kingston upon Thames , Surrey , England , † May 7, 2010 on the Isle of Wight , England) was a British actress , dancer , model and pin-up girl .

Life

Green was born into a permissive family of artists . Her father was a painter who made female nudes . Green dropped out of school at the age of 14 after her parents moved several times during World War II . In 1945 she enrolled at the Gloucester School of Art. In 1947 she moved to St Martin's School of Art in London . She worked as a model to finance her rent and school fees. She danced on the side at the Prince of Wales Theater in London's West End , mostly lightly dressed, partly half-naked, including in the Revue Latin Quarter and in Norman Wisdom's Revue Paris To Piccadilly , London's counterpart to the Parisian Folies Bergère . At the Windmill Theater she also appeared naked in erotic tableaux vivants .

At the age of 17, Green took her first nude photography. At the beginning of her career she worked with photographers Bertram Park , Bill Brandt , Zoltán Glass and Angus McBean , who photographed her in a giant clam as an imitation of Botticelli's birth of Venus .

In 1953, Green met the theater photographer George Harrison Marks , who became her artistic partner and life partner. Marks turned to nude photography on Green's advice . Together they produced erotic art postcard sets that they sold in various stores in Soho . Green always used her own name for these “glamor shots” when she appeared as a platinum blonde beauty. Under the pseudonym Princess Sonmar she was photographed with dark hair, as Rita Landré with scarlet hair. From 1957 Green and Marks brought out their own camera magazine. In the following years, due to the great success of the camera , turned Green, directed by Mark several 8mm films in black and white , which were meant for discreet private screenings.

In 1959 she was hired by the director Michael Powell , who had seen her photos on camera as Rita Landré , for his movie Eyes of Fear ( Peeping Tom ). She played the role of Milly , one of the victims of the psychopathic photographer portrayed by Karlheinz Böhm . Green appeared in a short negligee and stripped down to a tight G-string . She also had a short other nude scene, which was cut out for censorship reasons . Green became the first actress in Great Britain to be seen naked in a movie. In 1961 she starred in Naked as Nature Intended , an early British sexploitation film that skilfully circumvented the censorship by passing it off as a nudist film. In 1964, Green was seen on the television series This Week with a striptease scene from the short film The Window Dresser , which also caused a sensation. Green was the first woman on British television to be seen naked , apart from ethnological documentaries .

Green worked as a nude model until 1979. In 1998 Green released a VHS video film entitled Never Knowingly Overdressed that documented her career. This film shows excerpts from the 8 mm films, postcard motifs and film scenes.

Private

Green married the stagehand Guy Hillier in 1951. The marriage lasted only a month. From 1953 to 1961 she lived with George Harrison Marks. With her third partner, the still photographer Douglas Webb , Green lived from 1986 in a Victorian-style villa on the Isle of Wight. In 1993 the couple moved to Yarmouth , where Green was a member of the Yarmouth Women's Institute. Web died in December 1996.

Green died of leukemia in May 2010 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: Eyes of Fear (Peeping Tom)
  • 1961: Naked - As Nature Intended
  • 1961: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
  • 1963: The Chimney Sweeps
  • 1964: This Week (TV series)
  • 1975: Legend of the Werewolf
  • 1998: Never Knowingly Overdressed (documentary)

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personal data
SURNAME Green, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Thames , Surrey , England , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2010
Place of death Isle of Wight , England , UK