Maria Frost

Maria Frost was predominately a nude model, much in demand in the late 1960s. Throughout that period you could find Maria in glamour pictorials and 'leather and bondage' themed photo spreads for the kinkier customer. Maria was also a cover girl to five shilling sex manuals like 'Sex Manners for Advanced Lovers' (New English Library, 1969), which were sold in the back pages of magazines like 'Continental Film Review'. Her brief career in the first wave of British sexploitation films was purely down to their directors' preference for casting nude models rather than actresses. In this cinematic realm a model who couldn't act but was willing to strip off was far more vital than an actress who could act but might become 'difficult' when asked to go nude. Great acting was never essential for British nudies and Frost's roles in School for Sex (1969) and Permissive (1970) are by and large unremarkable.