The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Probably at the height of his success here, Marks isn’t afraid to be flash, picking up June Palmer in his Rolls Royce in the opening credits, while at the same modeling a bespectacled, bohemian appearance.

Today she’s landed smack in the middle of America’s poisonous race debate and everyone in the Western world with an internet connection is aware of her. You have to give National Spotlite credit—unlike many middle tier tabloids of the period this one managed to actually feature relevant and semi-relevant personalities. Marks was even gentlemanly enough to roll up his trousers to test the water, before allowing Pam to pose along the edge of the surf. Harrison Marks came into this world at 4:30pm on Friday the 6th of August 1926, in Tottenham North London, his father Moss Marks, nicknamed “Mossy”, had seen action in WW1 suffering a horrific mustard gas attack, after the war Mossy tried to get into show business, eventually finding work as an actor’s agent. We started off making 50 foot shorts, then I decided to do 70s, 100s, and 200s, which were 20 minutes long.While Danny Kaye sniped at Marks “you sure must be a stinking lousy photographer” during a second sitting, after Kaye’s cranky demeanor had caused Marks to botch the first. Marks proudest achievement as a theatrical photographer was taking pictures of Bela Lugosi during the actor’s British tour as Dracula in 1951. Bernard Delfont was impressed by Marks work, and soon more commissions came Marks way, allowing him to photograph some of the biggest names in show business including Jack Benny, Nat King Cole and Laurel and Hardy.

A recent episode of BBC’s Balderdash and Piffle programme even attributed the earliest use of the word “glamour” as a euphemism for nude modeling/photography to Marks’ 1958 publicity materials. Vivienne was soon gracing the pages of Kamera and Solo, and was even persuaded to play a nude Martian in the sci-fi themed 8mm glamour film “Visit from Venus” (1964) and headline her own self-titled 8mm film “Vivienne Warren” (1963). Danger Girl” stars June Palmer as a stripping secret agent who is put into bondage by a Russian Spy, only for her to break free and throw him onto a circular saw in the grisly finale. Fiesta even ran a monthly competition between the two sets of photographers, that saw readers asked to pick their favourite picture from that month’s issue of the magazine with a fifty pound prize for the winning photographer. His feature films as a director were Naked - As Nature Intended (1961), The Chimney Sweeps (his only non-sex feature, 1963), The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1967), Pattern of Evil (1967), The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) and Come Play With Me (1977), which featured Mary Millington.Tellingly Vivienne had little interest in the business, or pursuing a modeling career after meeting Marks. In later years Marks was more candid about his personal life during this period “I used to fuck anything that moved”.

Marks made ends meet during this period by continuing to shoot short films for the 8mm market and releasing them via his Maximus Films company.Welch had gone briefly blonde, and the resultant photos are the only ones we’ve seen of her with golden hair.

At 17 Marks discovered the opposite sex, and much to his family’s surprise married Diana Bugsgang, a woman several years his senior. Marks himself was a free agent, having drifted apart from Diana Bugsgang, and he and Green soon developed a deep bond, Marks described the pair of them as being almost “telepathic”. In later years Marks was reluctant to discuss these hardcore short films and claimed 'not to remember' their names.While his earlier 8mm films largely consisted of nothing more explicit than the models posing topless, late-sixties titles like Apartment 69 and The Amorous Masseur were generally softcore sex affairs. Klinger had first met Marks several years earlier when Marks had been hired to photograph several of Klinger’s strippers, and Tenser and Klinger correctly thought that having London’s most notorious photographer and his pin-up girlfriend as director and star would give their production the edge in a crowded nudist market. Despite Green at one stage changing her name to Pamela Harrison Marks by deed poll, the couple were never married, but throughout their relationship pretended otherwise, presenting themselves as just an average, cozy suburban husband and wife away from their less than ordinary line of work.