DEAD FASHION GIRL: ARCHIVE
Still from Too Hot To Handle, 1960, produced by Selim Cattan, “Ponytail”, (played by a young Barbara Windsor) gets sisterly advice from “Midnight Franklin”(Jayne Mansfield) in the dressing room of a Soho strip club.
Jackie Cliff:
"Oh my God! [laughs] Selim Cattan. He was such a character. We all loved him - and we didn’t love him. We were all a bit nervous of him. He was the dirtiest old man. He owned the club and he made it really good. Every girl in it was as gorgeous as he could get, or else he wouldn’t have them. And he made all of them go to bed with him in this big round bed, in his stinky flat round the corner. I didn’t do it actually. I was supposed to go there the night of my birthday, but I wriggled out of it. The stories I was told about his stinky bed…[laughs]. He used to take these girls back when they were drunk and say, “If you don’t do it you’re fired.” But we also used to have lots of fun with him - pull his leg, joke."
Still from Too Hot To Handle, 1960, produced by Selim Cattan, “Ponytail”, (played by a young Barbara Windsor) gets sisterly advice from “Midnight Franklin”(Jayne Mansfield) in the dressing room of a Soho strip club.
Jackie Cliff:
"Oh my God! [laughs] Selim Cattan. He was such a character. We all loved him - and we didn’t love him. We were all a bit nervous of him. He was the dirtiest old man. He owned the club and he made it really good. Every girl in it was as gorgeous as he could get, or else he wouldn’t have them. And he made all of them go to bed with him in this big round bed, in his stinky flat round the corner. I didn’t do it actually. I was supposed to go there the night of my birthday, but I wriggled out of it. The stories I was told about his stinky bed…[laughs]. He used to take these girls back when they were drunk and say, “If you don’t do it you’re fired.” But we also used to have lots of fun with him - pull his leg, joke."