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Dawn Grayson

  By Wonder • May 1, 2013

Dawn Grayson was one of the foremost models of the late Harrison Marks era. Described by Girl Illustrated as “a byword for professionalism”, she was immensely popular and featured in many publications. She allegedly got started in the glamour industry after posing for an advertising safety poster.*1

The safety poster in question was taken by Harrison Marks himself and was used by the British Safety Council in 1964 and caused quite a stir, as documented here!

The document and others state in 1964, she was 22 years old and married to a car plant worker based in Luton, Bedfordshire and had an 11 month old son.  Various other magazines also refer to her wanting to move to America or having moved to America as her husband got a highly paid position in electronics.  Another article says she had been in the states for about a year in 1973 and continued her modelling career over there.*2

So, some things do seem to be true in part, she was married, he was a electronics engineer for a car plant and they moved to America, plus they had at least one child.  As to beyond that point, like many other models of that time the details become sketchy.

Real Name: Kay Kirkham
Date of Birth: 1942?
Modelling Aliases: Dane Grayson , But Modelled as Carla Higgins, Kay Stevens, Dorothy Gregson & Dawn Gayson
Measurements: 37-22-36  
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour (Natural): Redhead
Hair Colour (Dyed): None.

Dawn Grayson Images

Dawn Grayson Covers

Magazines:
Beautiful Britons No.136 & 178 (Cover)
Black Nylons Vol.1 No.9 (Cover)
Body Shop Vol.4 No.3 (Cover)
Bottom Vol.4 No.2 (Cover)
Carnival, June 1967 & October 1969
Flirt ‘n Skirt No.13
Girl Illustrated No.3 & No.8 (As Dorothy Gregson)
Girl Illustrated No.2 (Possibly. Model bears a strong resemblance to Dawn, but is identified as Carla Higgins)
Girl Illustrated Vol.2 No.14
Girl Illustrated Vol.4 No.38 (Cover)
Girls International No.1
Girls of the World No.1 (as Dawn Gayson)
H&E (Health & Efficiency), November 1970 (Cover)
Kamera No.59 (Cover), 65, 70 & 78
Kamera Winter Special 1967 (Cover)
La Femme No.1
Men Only Sept 1966 (Cover)
Mirage 9
Parade – Numerous Incl. No.1481 (Centerfold)
Parade/Escort June
She. Harrison Marks Reprints
Solo No.43
Span No.131, 136 & 143 (Covers)
Spick No.179 (Cover)
Touch Vol.3 No.4 (Cover) 

Filmography: 
The Nine Ages of Nakedness

Glamour Films:
Sleepytime Girl
Key Strip
Festive Spirit

Other Publications:
Kamera Calendar 1965, 66  & 68
Harrison Marks Calendar 1969
 

 

*1 (Source: 60’sGlam Database)
*2 All information has been pulled from magazines published back in the 1960’s and 70’s and should be taken at face value, as they sometimes embellished on the truth!

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June Palmer

  By Wonder • May 1, 2013 Uncategorised

Born on the 4th August 1940, her parents little knowing the impact that in later years she was to make on the male population, both at home and abroad. With June Palmer’s fabulous figure, hair and face, she was the stuff boys and men dreamt of, June Palmer’s pin-up poses adorning many a wall and locker door, or workshop coffee room table in one of the many magazines she appeared in.

June started posing for Kamera and Solo at the age of 17 with photographer Harrison Marks (which her work is best known for), as well as Russell Gay. Harrison almost didn’t use her, because of giggling too much during test shots, and had found her impossible to work with. Although June Palmer was often associated with George Harrison Marks, there was another partnership less well known. That of June Palmer and Arthur Howell, the man who both discovered and married her. They were together for about ten years and together ran ‘Strobe Studio’, Clapham, London.

Among the men’s magazines Palmer graced the covers of and/or had pictorials in are “Fiesta,” “Parade,” “Adam,” “Beau,” “Dapper,” “Modern Man,” “Sir!,” and “Monsieur.”  She appears as herself in the comedic documentary The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1967) and also acted in a few “nudie-cutie” loops for Marks. 

Real Name: June Palmer
Modelling Aliases: June Power, When June wore the strawberry blonde wig, she went under the name Joanne Kent, the black short wig she became Rachel Wells and the Silver wig she was Candy.
Date of Birth: August 4th, 1940 Died: 6th January 2004
Measurements: 38-24-37 Height: 5′ 2¼” (1.58 m)
Eye Colour: Green 
Hair Colour (Natural): Brown
Hair Colour (Dyed): Brown-Auburn
Spouses: Arthur Howell (1993-2000) & David Milan

All June Palmer Images

June Palmer Covers

June Palmer Originals

An Older June Palmer 

As Joanna Kent

As Rachel Wells

As Candy 

June Palmer Videos

Books:
She Walks in Beauty (1966) – Hardback book of Harrison Marks Studies

Magazine Listings:

Full Listing … Here

Filmography:

 Brides in the Bath (1971)
June in Orbit
Triangle
Jubilee
Artemis and Aktaion
Calamity June
Beauty & The Barn
Dream Goddess
Nightmare at Elm Manor (Flesh and Fantasies)
Hay Fever
Photo Session
Star Strip
China Garden
The Naked World of June Palmer 
The Naked World of Harrison Marks
The Uncensored Films of June Palmer – Reel  1, 2 & 3

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Other Harrison Marks Models & Others From That Period

  By Wonder • May 1, 2013 Uncategorised

Links to most models that have posed for Harrison Marks at some point throughout their career.  Also other favourite models from the same period.

Alicen Warden
Angela Jones
Ann Austin
Ann Day
Ann Walker
Ann Wilson
Anna Verdi
Annette Johnson
Annlyse
Audrey Crane
Audrey Judson
Avra Bennett
Barbara Halks
Bea Bea Chu-Chu
Beryl Gilchrist
Bobby Shaw
Bridget Leonard
Britt Hampshire
Candy Earle
Carol Royal
Caroline Coon
Caron Gardner
Chere
Christina
Cindy Neal
Cleo Simmons
Danielle Denise
Dawn Grayson
Deborah De Lacey
Diane Clare
Diane James
Diane Webber
Dorte
Elaine Desmond
Elizabeth Flynn
Erica
Erika Bergmman
Eva Wild
Eve Eden (Rosa Domaille)
Frankie (Francesca) Young
Georgena van Coppenhagen
Geraldine (Gerry) Brown
Gillian Evans
Gloria Lomax
Hazel Taylor (Ann Dixon)
Hilde Beck (Hyldagarde)
Jackie Salt
Jackie Parker
Jane Paul
Jayne Tracey
Jennifer Garland
Julie
Julie Collins
Julie Williams
Jean Spaul
June Johnson
June Palmer
June Russell
June Simpson
June Wilkinson
Jutka Goz
Karen Klein
Kay Fitzsimmonds
Laya
Lena Ellis
Lee Southern
Linda Lloyd
Lorraine Burnett
Louise Worth
Lyn Shaw
Madeline Mado
Madeline Mills
Madeline Collinson
Margaret Nolan
Margaret Middleton
Margarette
Maria Frost
Maria Clarence
Marie Claire
Marie Deveraux
Marina Jones
Mary Deighan
Mary Morten
Maureen Tavenbeck
Maxine King
Maxine Miller
Maxine
Maya Zell
Merle Henry
Molly Peters
Monique Devereaux
Nicky Stevens
Nicole Yearner
Pam Arnold
Pamela Green
Pat Davis
Patsy French
Paula Page
Penny Winters
Penny Wood
Peta Gareth
Petrina Forsythe
Rena Brown
Rona Scott
Rosalie Peters
Rusty Gaynor
Samantha
Sandra Cassano
Sissi Mississippi
Sophia Dawn
Stevie
Sue Chester
Sue Owen
Suzi Shane
Teresa Seymour
Teri Martine
Terry Graham
Terry Peters
Thelma
Tina Graham
Tina Madison
Tina McGowan
Toni Burnett
Valerie Jones
Velma Loftus
Vera Day
Vera Novak
Vicky Groves
Virginia Green
Vivienne Warren
Wendy Luton
Wendy James

Yamille
Yvonne Eckman
Zigrinda

More models will be added as I find them, but if you come across any others, please let me know :)
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Molly Peters

  By Wonder • May 1, 2013 Uncategorised

Molly Peters was a gorgeous and voluptuous British blonde bombshell actress and model who appeared in a handful of films and TV shows during her acting career in the mid 60s. Molly was born in 1942 in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England and started out as a model and she graced the covers of and posed in pictorials for many of the men’s magazine of that period. In her early modelling career she posed for HM and appeared in multiple issues of Kamera and other HM publications and glamour films.

Molly achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her memorably and sensuous portrayal of Patricia Fearing, the fetching masseuse who gets seduced by James Bond at the Shrubland health club in “Thunderball.” She was discovered by director Terence Young and has the distinction of being the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen. In the wake of her 007 stint Peters acted in two more movies and popped up on episodes of the TV shows “Armchair Theatre” and “Baker’s Half-Dozen.”

Real Name: Molly Peters
Date of Birth: 1942
Modelling Aliases: None
Measurements: 37-24-37  Height: 5’6″
Eye Colour: Brown 
Hair Colour (Natural): Brown
Hair Colour (Dyed): None.

Molly Peters Images


Magazines:
Ann. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Bandit
Beau (US)
Beautiful Britons No.88
Breeze No.2
Champagne. 2 Unnumbered editions. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Fifi
Flirt ‘n Skirt 1
Flirt ‘n Skirt Extra (pt 2)
Folies de Paris et Hollywood (various issues)
Francoise. Harrison Marks reprints
Health & Efficiency – Various inc No.785 and Dec ’65 and Feb ’67 (Cover)
Kamera No.50, 51, 52, 54, 60, 73 & 76
Men Only
Mirage No.9 (Harrison Marks reprints)
Modern Man (US)
Pagan No.7 (Harrison Marks reprints)
Parade – Numerous
Parade Carnival – June 1966
Parade/Escort June (Year Not Known)
QT No.60
Revue Nouvelle Sexie 
Sapphire
Sarah
She
Solo No.36
Topless c.1965

Filmography: 
Behind the Scenes with Thunderball (1995)
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1967) With Vicky Kennedy
Geheimnis der gelben Mönche, Das (1966)
Thunderball (1965)

Glamour Films: 
Making Hay – Kamera Cine Films (with Frankie Young)
As Nature Intended – Kamera Cine Films (with Frankie Young amd Sophia Dawn) 
Molly Peters
Brush with a Body
The Naked World of Harrison Marks

Other Publications: 
She Walks in Beauty (1966) – Hardback book of Harrison Marks Studies
Kamera Calendar 1965