Her appearance in the short softcore film Sex is My Business led to her meeting magazine publisher David Sullivan , who promoted her widely as a model and featured her in the softcore comedy Come Play With Me , which ran for a record-breaking four years at the same cinema.
In her later years, she faced depression and pressure from frequent police raids on her sex shop. After a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt, she died at home of an overdose of medicine and vodka, aged Millington has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond.
Mary Ruth Quilter was born out of wedlock on 30 November , and brought up by her single mother, Joan Quilter 19 February β 17 May , initially in Willesden , before Joan and Mary moved to Mid Holmwood near Dorking in , when Mary was Klein β , [ 3 ] Mary was bullied at school owing to being illegitimate, and she suffered from low self-esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years. Soon after starting work as a glamour model, she met the glamour photographer and pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay , who offered to photograph her for softcore magazines.
She became one of his most popular models [ 5 ] and began appearing in 8mm hardcore pornographic film loops which sold well in Europe. She then returned to modelling for British pornographic magazines such as Knave and Men Only. The storyline concerned a powerful aphrodisiac being dropped by a customer, the potency of which renders the shop's staff and customers sex crazy.
Maxted, dressed in a short see-through dress, is the film's main focus of attention, playing a member of staff who drags a customer into the back room for some multi-position sex, thoughtfully turning on the shop's CCTV camera so others can watch. Sex is My Business was considered something of a lost film until a Super 8 print was located and privately transferred to DVD in In April , Millington and fellow Come Play With Me actress Suzy Mandel took part in a publicity stunt for the anniversary of the opening of the film at the Moulin Cinema, posing in lingerie on the cinema's marquee.
