Dawn Addams

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Dec 162009

Dawn Addams starred in dozens of films in a career that spanned 20 years, from 1952 to 1973.  Her horror film credits include the 1960 films The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (by Fritz Lang) and Terrence Fisher’s The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll with Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed.  In 1969, she appeared in the sci-fi exploitation flick Zeta One with fellow Hammer Hotties Valerie Leon and Yutte Stensgaard.  Toward the end of her film carreer, she appeared in two films for Hammer Studios: The Vampire Lovers (1970) with Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Kate O’Mara, Kirsten Lindholm, Madeline Smith, Pippa Steel and Janet Key, and The Vault of Horror (1973).

Dawn Addams

Dawn Addams

Birthdate: September 21, 1930
Birthplace: Felixstowe, England
Height: ?

Details of Death:
Dawn Addams died from cancer on May 7, 1985 at the age of 54.

Notes:
In 1957, Addams co-starred with legendary performer Charlie Chaplin in his final comedic film role, A King in New York.

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

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

Official Website

Gallery

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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

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.

Official Website: Nope

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