PAMELA GREENPamela Green, who died on 7 May, 2010, took up nude modelling in the 1950s to fund her schooling at St Martin’s Art College.By the end of the decade she was the country’s best-known pin-up girl, star of the earliest successful top shelf magazine and was the first actress to appear nude in a British feature film.She briefly exposed her breasts in the 1960 psychological thriller Peeping Tom, though even this fleeting glimpse was cut from some versions of the film.The following year she starred in the flimsily plotted nudist film Naked as Nature Intended, directed by her partner and business Svengali George Harrison Marks who also launched the magazine Kamera and shot Green’s early 8mm glamour shorts.In later life she married Douglas Webb, a photographer and former Dambusters raid veteran, and after finishing her modelling career she worked as a photographic assistant. She compiled a documentary, Never Knowingly Overdressed, featuring footage and stills throughout her career.Ms Green spent the rest of her life on the Isle of Wight and continued to promote the cause of nudism through her website. She died aged 81.
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