Vintage Poster collector, Charlie Jeffreys, in conjunction with the Museum of Soho have mounted an exhibition on Murray’s Cabaret Club at the Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue. The club in London’s Soho was a notorious jazz and revue club which opened in 1913 on Beak Street. It was known for its extravagant Continue Reading
Raise a glass
Raise a glass to Pamela Green, pin-up icon, legend and dear friend who would have been 89 today.
Badland Big’eads — A Harrison Marks Comedy
After the filming of Naked as Nature Intended, Pamela Green went to visit family in Holland. When she got back, she found the studio in the throes of preparing a silent 8mm comedy film called Badland Big’eads. It was to star George Harrison Marks and Stuart Samuels, as well as Continue Reading
Naked As Nature Intended Japanese Adverts
Here is a couple of Japanese magazine adverts for the naturist movie Naked as Nature Intended, which was released in Japan in 1963, two years after its UK release. A while back I posted the actual poster. You can see it here. I’ve been meaning to post a picture of the Continue Reading
Christabel Leighton-Porter (1913-2000)
I’ve been meaning to write a post on Christabel Leighton-Porter (1913-2000) for some time. Like Pamela Green, she became a life model in her late teens alongside a modest career in the theatre. She entered the occasional beauty contest, once winning the title of “Venus of Kent”. She was photographed Continue Reading
Naked in the Menagerie
The next volume in the Stephen Glass collection has just been released. Naked in the Menagerie is a playful look at Eve accompanied by her animal friends. A portable exhibition of unusual images that will get you harking back to more innocent times. Photographed in the studio and on location Continue Reading
Amazing Grace – Pamela Green
A rather elegant shot of Pamela Green looking all regal on a fur rug. Not much to say other than how delightful. Very agreeable indeed. One of my favorites. SaveSave
Wolfbait Books Online Shop
Rather than let Pamela Green’s archive languish in boxes I have decided to release a number of publications under the Wolfbait imprint. These books can be purchased from most online stores such as Amazon. Visit our shop page to see what is available. Suggestions for future publications are welcome. I’m Continue Reading
Murray’s Cabaret Club
Christine Keeler, who died earlier this month worked as a topless showgirl at Murray’s Cabaret Club in London’s Soho. She needs no introduction but who was Murray? Percival “Pops” Murray ran a café in Le Zoute, Belgium. In 1924 he had a club in Ostend, and by the late 1920s, Continue Reading
Get ’em off at the Nell Gwynn – Part 1
Get ’em off (1976) is an amusing and dated film about the history of stripping mainly filmed at the Nell Gwynn and The Gargoyle Club in London’s Soho. When George Harrison Marks and Pamela Green were living and working in Gerrard Street in the 1960s, they were just a stone’s Continue Reading