Mary Collinson obit

Playboy 'Twins of Evil' star Mary Collinson dies aged 69 as fans pay tribute to model

Maltese-British model and actress Mary Collinson, known as one half of Playboy 'Twins of Evil' star has died aged 69, her friends have announced on social media

 

She was not on the list.

Former Playboy model Mary Collinson has passed away at the age of 69.

In October 1970, Mary and her identical twin sister Madeleine, who passed away in 2014, became the magazine's first identical twin centrefolds.

The Collinson twins first arrived in Britain in April 1969 and prior to their appearance in Playboy, one of the first people to use them was the glamour photographer/film maker Harrison Marks who casted them as saucy maids in his short film Halfway Inn.

The film, made for the 8mm market, was shot sometime between their British arrival and July 1970, when a still from the film was used in a Marks' advert that ran in that month's issue of Continental Film Review magazine.

Madeleine is quoted in The Playmate Book as saying that Mary has two daughters, along with living in Milan with an "Italian gentleman" who she was with for more than 20 years.

Actress (7 credits)

 1971 Passion Potion

Janet

 1971 Twins of Evil

Maria Gellhorn

 1971 The Love Machine

Debbie

 1970 Halfway Inn (Short)

 1970 Permissive

Groupie (as Mary Collins)

 1970 I Am a Groupie

Twin Groupie (uncredited)

 1969 Some Like It Sexy