Folies de Paris et Hollywood – many issues, including No.131 (covergirl), No.184 (covergirl), No 240 (cover girl) No.316

Living on through this film are Marks’ best remembered models from the era, Pamela Green, Cleo Simmons, Jutka Goz and the aforementioned June Palmer all of whom contribute cameos. Also putting in an appearance in the film was a young actress/model called Toni Burnett, who caught Marks’ eye. By the end of the film Toni and Marks were very much in love “she puts up with my lunatic ways and my day dreams” he wrote “she makes me happy, and I make her happy. Really for the first time in my life I am as happy as an ordinary, average person”. Others saw a far more toxic side to the relationship, a former girlfriend of Marks told me "George had a genius for becoming seriously involved with women who were unsuitable for him. He was very self distructive in his behaviour and Toni fitted his tendency to marry women who treated him badly". Teri Martine, a model and sometime girlfriend of Marks once told me a funny story about this film "I remember George taking me to see the preview of The Naked World of Harrison Marks we were no sooner in our seats and George fell asleep and was snoring so loud I had to wake him up!!! fond memories of the one and only George.” So I suppose it is forgivable if parts of Naked World have a similar effect on the audience as they did its own director. The segments with Marks imagined as a gangster and Marks imagined as a gay film director prove to be a laugh free zone, and the sight of Stuart Samuels in drag is frankly terrifying. The big surprise is the Toulouse-Lautrec sequence, you'd expect it to be a series of groan inducing disablist jokes, instead it's unexpectedly heartfelt and full of admiration and empathy for Toulouse-Lautrec. Although Marks rejects comparisons between himself and Toulouse-Lautrec in the film, the similarities are impossible to ignore. Both men moved in bohemian circles, produced art that outraged straight society, and both were total alcoholics. There's the sense of a kindred spirit in Naked World's eulogy to Toulouse-Lautrec "Grace for him was in his drawings, his paintings, and these could be of graceless people, prostitues, showgirls, in each he found humanity and tenderness, and through him they will live for all time".Country/County/Town of Origin There are conflicting accounts that Lorraine was born either in England / Manchester, or USA / (possibly Pittsburg).

Panama Theatre Club Magazine No.1 (cover and feature, with some shots of one of her dance routines)Hard to fathom, but a joy to ‘shoot’“. One club at which Lorraine was a star act in the late 1950s was the Panama Theatre Club, 42 Great Windmill Street, London W1.