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Stephanie Beacham

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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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).