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Adrienne Corri

Sep 252009

Adrienne Corri appeared in three films for Hammer Studios: The Viking Queen (1967), Moon Zero Two (1969), and, in a starring role as the Gypsy Queen, in Vampire Circus (1972). She is best-remembered as the victim of the gang-rape in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange. Other appearances include Doctor Zhivago (1965), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), Devil Girl From Mars (1954) and Corridors of Blood (1958).

Adrienne Corri

Birthdate: November 13, 1933
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Height: ?

Notes:
Her birth name was Adrienne Riccoboni. In 1985, she wrote a book about 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough.

Playboy Appearances:
Nope.

Official Website: Nope.

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Stephanie Beacham

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Sep 252009

Stephanie Beacham starred with both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the 1972 Hammer Studios horror film Dracula A.D. 1972 in the role of Jessica Van Helsing. Both she and fellow Hammer Girl Janet Key also starred with Cushing the following year in the horror film And Now The Screaming Starts. She went on to appear in such films as House of Mortal Sin (1976), Schizo (1976), and Inseminoid (1981), before getting her best-remembered role as Sable Colby on the prime time television soap Dynasty. She currently plays a recurring character on the show Bad Girls, and recently starred in the horror film The Witches Hammer (2006).

Stephanie Beacham

Birthdate: February 28, 1947
Birthplace: Casablanca, Morocco
Height: 5’7″

Notes:
In an interview with Graham Norton, Beacham allegedly claimed that her only regret regarding her 1972 Playboy shoot (pictured at right) was the wig that she wore.

Playboy Appearances:
Nov 1972

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Madeline Smith

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Sep 252009

Easily our choice for “Best Eyes” of the Hammer Girls, Madeline Smith launched her screen career with a small part in the 1970 sex romp Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, appearing with fellow Hammer Girl Veronica Carlson. The following year, she appeared in two films for Hammer Studios: as “Dolly” in Taste The Blood of Dracula (opposite Christopher Lee), and as “Emma Morton” in The Vampire Lovers (opposite Peter Cushing). In 1973, she appeared with Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood, and joined the ranks of the Bond Girls as “Miss Caruso” in Live and Let Die, with Roger Moore as James Bond. A year later, she returned to Hammer, starring with David Prowse and reunited with Peter Cushing in Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell.

Madeline Smith

Birthdate: August 2, 1949
Birthplace: Hartfield, England
Height: 5’5″

Notes:
Madeline Smith retired from acting in 1984, but makes periodic convention appearances for her fans.

Playboy Appearances:
Nope.

Official Website: Nope.

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Victoria Vetri

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Sep 252009

Victoria Vetri had already acted in several television shows over a six-year period before breaking into film in 1967, starring with Rod Taylor and Ernest Borgnine in Chuka. The following year, she starred with Mia Farrow in the horror classic Rosemary’s Baby (1968). Her only appearance in a Hammer Studios production came in 1970, starring as “Sanna” in When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth. She went on to appear in Invasion of The Bee Girls in 1973 with William Smith, but retired from acting soon after.

Victoria Vetri

Birthdate: September 26, 1944
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Height: 5’5″

Notes:
Victoria Vetri went by the name Angela Dorian in her Playboy appearances, as well as in some of her acting roles. She played “Florence of Arabia” in the 1968 episode of the Batman TV show “I’ll Be A Mummy’s Uncle”, and played “Isis” in the original Star Trek episode “Assignment Earth” from the same year.

Playboy Appearances:
Sep 1967 (Playmate Of The Month)
May 1968 (Playmate Of The Year)

Official Website: Nope.

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Lesley-Anne Down

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Sep 252009

Best-known for her soap opera work, Lesley-Anne Down appeared in the 1971 Hammer Studios production Countess Dracula, with Ingrid Pitt. Other roles include School For Unclaimed Girls (1969), From Beyond The Grave (1973), Munchie Strikes Back (1994), Death Wish V (1994), and, one of our favorites, playing a hooker nurse in the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Meet Wally Sparks (1997).

Lesley-Anne Down

Birthdate: March 17, 1954
Birthplace: London, England
Height: 5’4-and-a-half”

Notes:
Lesley-Anne Down started modeling at the age of 10, and dropped out of school at the age of 12. She was married to William Friedkin, the director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, from 1982 until 1985.

Playboy Appearances:
Dec 1978 (“Sex Stars of 1978″)
Dec 1979 (“Sex Stars of 1979″)
Dec 1980 (“Sex Stars of 1980″)

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Jenny Hanley

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Sep 252009

Jenny Hanley appeared briefly in the 1969 James Bond flick On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, then got a starring role opposite Christopher Lee a year later in the Hammer Studios production Scars of Dracula (1970). After a handful of other film and television roles throughout the 1970′s, she retired from acting in 1980.

Jenny Hanley

Birthdate: August 15, 1947
Birthplace: Gerrards Cross, England
Height: ?

Notes:
Her best-remembered role is as one of the hosts of the children’s television show Magpie from 1974 until 1980.

Playboy Appearances:
None.

Official Website: Nope.

Dana Gillespie

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Sep 252009

Actress and singer Dana Gillespie appeared in just one film for Hammer Studios: The Lost Continent (1968) alongside fellow Hammer Hottie Suzanna Leigh. She has appeared in a handful of other films, the last being Sunday Pursuit (1990).

Dana Gillespie

Birthdate: March 30, 1949
Birthplace: London, England
Height: 5’8″

Notes:
Her birth name was Richenda Antionette de Winterstein Gillespie. She chose the stage name Dana so as not to cheapen her real name in show business. David Bowie taught her to play the guitar when they were in school together. They later recorded together.

Playboy Appearances:
Nope.

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Marsha Hunt

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Sep 252009

Marsha Hunt

The lovely Marsha A. Hunt got her start appearing nude in Lichfield photos and onstage in the London cast of “Hair”, where she met Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones and conceived his love-child, Karis Jagger. She appeared in only one Hammer film, Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), starring opposite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. She also appeared in Howling II: Werewolf Bitch (1985) and a handful of other roles before retiring from acting in the late 1980′s. Since then, she has been pursuing her writing interests, and has published several books, including two autobiographies: Real Life: The Story of a Survivor (1986) and Undefeated (2006).

Birthdate: October 15, 1946
Birthplace: London, England
Height: ?

Notes:
Although she was born in England, Marsha Hunt was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then studied at U.C. Berkeley before returning to England in the 1960′s. Hunt was diagnosed with breast cancer in November, 2005, and lost her right breast and lymph nodes to the disease. She discusses her ordeal in her new autobiography, Undefeated. She currently resides in Ireland, but also maintains a home in France, and is working on a biography of Jimi Hendrix.
The Rolling Stones song “Brown Sugar” is about her.

Playboy Appearances:
Nope.

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Janet Key

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Sep 242009

At twenty-five years old, Janet Key appeared in her first Hammer Studios production, The Vampire Lovers (1970), appearing with fellow Hammer Girls Ingrid Pitt, Kate O’Mara, Madeline Smith, Dawn Addams, Pippa Steel, Kirsten Lindholm, and others. Of the eight movies she appeared in, half of them were for Hammer Studios. She also appeared in Dracula A.D. 1972, And Now The Screaming Starts (1973), and The Devil Within Her (1975).

Janet Key

Birthdate: July 10, 1945
Birthplace: Bath, England
Height: ?

Notes:
Her final credited performance before her death was in an episode of the television show Oliver’s Ghost in 1988. The episode was entitled “Worlds Beyond”.

Details of Death:
Janet Key died from cancer on July 26, 1992, just days after her 47th birthday.

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Caroline Munro

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Sep 242009

British actress Caroline Munro has shared the screen with nearly all of the giants of 60′s-70′s horror cinema. She appeared with Vincent Price in the 1971 film The Abominable Dr. Phibes. The following year she appeared with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in Dracula A.D. 1972. She also appeared in the Hammer productions Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) and The Devil Within Her (1975), and then reunited with Peter Cushing for the film At The Earth’s Core (1976). A year later, she starred opposite Roger Moore as Bond Girl Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and finally got a starring role two years later as “Stella Star” in the film Starcrash (aka The Adventures of Stella Star). She semi-retired from acting in the late 80′s to concentrate on her family, but has recently returned to the work she loves, appearing in Flesh For The Beast (2003), The Absence of Light (2004), and Domestic Strangers (2005).