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Madeline Smith

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:
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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).

Caroline Munro

Birthdate: January 16, 1950
Birthplace: Windsor, England
Height: 5’7″

Notes:
Caroline Munro has appeared in two music videos: Adam Ant’s “Goody Two Shoes”, and Meatloaf’s “If I Really Want To”.

Playboy Appearances:
None.

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Linda Hayden

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Sep 242009

Linda Hayden starred in her second film, Taste The Blood of Dracula, when she was only sixteen years old. Her debut had come two years earlier, playing sultry teenage slut Luci in the erotic exploitation flick Baby Love. In Taste The Blood of Dracula, the sexy teenager went up against one of the most imposing screen vampires of all time: Christopher Lee’s Dracula. This was Hayden’s only role in a Hammer film, but not her only role in the horror genre. She went on to star with such notable horror actors as Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. She also went up against David Niven as Dracula in Vampira (aka Old Dracula) in 1974. This film also featured fellow Hammer Hottie Veronica Carlson in a small role.

Linda Hayden

Birthdate: January 19, 1953
Birthplace: Middlesex, England
Height: ?

Notes:
One of Hayden’s most sought-after films is The House On Straw Hill (aka Expose). It was announced as a region-one DVD release in 2004, but has yet to see the light of day. It still remains one of the UK’s “Video Nasty”, part of a list of films national censors have deemed unfit for viewing.

Playboy Appearances:
November, 1978: “Sex In Cinema” segment.

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Hazel Court

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Sep 242009

Though she was no stranger to horror and sci-fi, Hazel Court had the distinction of being the first true Hammer Heroine, when she landed the role of Victor Frankenstein’s cousin Elizabeth in Hammer’s breakthrough gothic horror film, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). She went on to work for Hammer again several years later in The Man Who Could Cheat Death. In the ’60′s, she went on to work in several of the Roger Corman-helmed Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, such as The Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price, and The Raven, with Price and horror legend Boris Karloff. She retired from acting in 1981, her final screen role being in The Omen III: The Final Conflict. She died in 2008 at the age of 82.

Hazel Court

Birthdate: February 10, 1926
Birthplace: Birmingham, England
Deathdate: April 15, 2008
Deathplace: Lake Tahoe, CA
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Height: ?

Notes:
There was a nude scene shot for The Man Who Could Cheat Death, it featured Court posing for sculptor Anton Diffring, and was one of the first such scenes filmed in England. Sadly, however, at this time all remaining prints of the film have this scene omitted.

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