Phyllis Pamela Green (28 March 1929 – 7 May 2010) was an English

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and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass and his brother

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, Horace Roye, Jean Straker,

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, Joan Craven,

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and John Everard.

Early life

Pamela Green was born in

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, England on 28 March 1929. She grew up in

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, after which she attended

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in central London; she started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more. She also worked as a dancer and appeared in the Latin Quarter at The London Casino (aka Prince Edward Theatre) and Bernard Delfont's

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at the Hippodrome, London. Early in her career, while still at art college, Pamela Green was photographed by

, Zoltán Glass and Angus McBean. In 1954 Green started to supply the bookshops and newsagents of London's Soho 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 of George Harrison Marks, entitled ''Pamela''.

Career

Her rising profile prompted her to set up Kamera Publications Ltd with Harrison Marks. With Green as Managing Director, they produced several magazines, with ''Kamera'' 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, which was the format commonly used for home viewing. Her first film appearance was in

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's psychological thriller ''

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'' (1960). Green appeared in the nudist film '' Naked as Nature Intended'' (1961), released in the United States as ''As 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 biography ''The Naked Truth'', "Pam set me up. She started it all." In 1964 she appeared in an episode of '' This Week''. Green continued to model for her then-partner, the photographer Douglas Webb. She became Webb's camera stills assistant and worked for the major film companies in London. In 1992 she wrote the foreword to David McGillivray's book ''Doing Rude Things'', which was reprinted in 2017. A television version of ''Doing Rude Things'' was produced by the BBC in 1995, in which she was interviewed.

Personal life

In September 1951, Green married stagehand Guy Hillier, however, they separated after one month and eventually got divorced in 1965. From 1953 to 1961 she lived with George Harrison Marks and took his name. Her third partner was the photographer Douglas Webb, with whom Green lived until his death in December 1996. At first they lived in a Victorian villa on the

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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 from

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, aged 81, on the Isle of Wight on 7 May 2010.

Filmography

Kamera Cine striptease films

* ''Art for Art’s Sake'' (1960) with Jean Spaul * ''Witches Brew'' (1960) as Rita Landre * ''Cover Girl'' (1960) (uncredited cameo) * ''Xcitement'' (1961) * ''Gypsy Fire'' (1961) as Sonmar Harriks * ''The Window Dresser'' (1961)

Published works

* ''Naked as Nature Intended, The Epic Tale of a Nudist Picture''. Suffolk & Watt, 2013, . * ''Pamela''. Luxor Press,1956.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Pamela 1929 births 2010 deaths English female models People from Kingston upon Thames English film actresses English television actresses Deaths from leukemia Deaths from cancer in England People from West Wickham Glamour models Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art