The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Marks’ female co-star in the film was latter day Kamera model Caroline Coon, who modeled for Marks to pay her way through art school and is now better known for her associations with the underground and later punk scene, “the Jackie Onassis of the underground” Marks’ dubbed her a few years after making the film.

s The Chimney Sweeps which Marks produced and starred in, was devised as a comedy vehicle for himself and Stuart Samuels as well as a chance to put their old routine on screen. While his earlier 8mm films largely consisted of nothing more explicit than the models posing topless, late sixties titles like Apartment 69, Elle, Bob and Elizabeth, Worker’s Playtime, Touch Tongue, The Girl Upstairs, The Wrong Habit and The Amorous Masseur were generally soft core sex affairs.Marks feature films as a director were Naked as Nature Intended (1961), The Chimney Sweeps (his only non-sex film, 1963), The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965), Pattern of Evil (1967), The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) and Come Play With Me (1977).

Based out of Marks’ Farringdon studio, Maximus was run on a ‘film club’ basis, meaning that punters would have to sign up for membership before purchasing the films, mirroring the way membership only sex cinemas were run at the time. In an even more macabre vein is “Perchance to Scream” (1967) in which Marks model Jane Paul is transported to a medieval torture chamber where Stuart Samuels plays an evil inquisitor who sentences topless women to be whipped and beheaded by a masked executioner. 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. The end results were often startling, especially the contrast between Pam’s normal blonde, sun loving, bombshell persona and the fiery looking, lingerie clad, red haired Rita who inevitably would be photographed against a backdrop of a mock Parisian back alley.Margaret Nolan may have had a longer career in mainstream films and TV than many of her contemporaries, but enough Kamera models went on to do film bit parts to at least justify the claim in Kamera no. Green dominates this issue of Kamera, appearing in the centerfold and numerous other pages as both Sonmar-Harriks and herself, but readers are also treated to other models variously lounging on leopard skins, loitering in alleys, showing off oiled-up boobs, erased pubes, and more.

It was around this time that Stuart Samuels came back into Marks life, Marks version of how he and Stuart Samuels became a double act has it that the pair were enjoying a night out in their local pub, where their joke telling, banjo playing and lively banter was overheard by an agent who suggested a career on the stage and gave them his card. Overseas, the unretouched versions of his pictures were more freely circulated, and would regularly turn up in Danish magazines like ‘Studio’ and ‘Play-Girl’.

This pocket-sized collection entitled Intimate Studies of the Fabulous Betty Page (name misspelled) was put out by Harrison Marks’ London-based Kamera Publications, Ltd. 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.