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).

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.

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”.