The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Marks proudest achievement as a theatrical photographer was taking pictures of Bela Lugosi during the actor’s British tour as Dracula in 1951.

In this film, Stuart Samuels plays an evil inquisitor who sentences topless women to be whipped and beheaded by a masked executioner. He was an excellent photographer of nudes," producer Tony Tenser remarked to John Hamilton in a 1998 interview, "but he also excelled in photographs of cats, that were much more beautiful than some of his nudes". She’d been recommended to Marks by a model agent friend, and insisted on being paid to come to his studio, whether he wanted to use her or not. But getting back to Raquel Welch, the cover shot comes from one of her most famous photo sessions, the same one that produced this excellent image and many others. For Marks’ core audience Naked as Nature Intended’s big appeal lay in seeing their favourite A5 sized fantasy figures projected as giant-sized living, breathing nudes on the silver screen, a famous shot on a beach opens the film with Pamela Green taking a slow walk towards the camera with a towel to protect her modesty.Pam was soon on her way to being recognized as Britain’s most famous nude model, and naturally the sight of the glamorous blonde being driven around in a Cadillac by a goateed, cigar-chomping Svengali looking type who took pictures of nude women for a living, turned heads and generated tabloid interest.

In past times Dolezal would have been a local kook, but one considered harmless in the scheme of things. Its possible that an entire generation of men, experiencing the female body for the first time through Kamera, were bamboozled by Pam’s handiwork into thinking that women actually had nothing of interest between their legs, and boy were they in for a shock when they encountered the real thing ! Titles like Uncle's Tea Party, Defective Detectives, High Diddle Fiddle, Dizzy Decorators and Musical Maniacs were founded in the music hall and classic silent comedy traditions. Marks was initially unsure about directing a feature film until Tenser and Klinger took him to their cinema club and showed him a typical example of the sort of tacky sex film they were playing, after which Marks vowed “if I couldn’t make better (films) than those then I would give the whole racket up”.Marks made ends meet during this period by continuing to shoot short films for the 8mm market and releasing them via his Maximus Films company.