An afternoon watching a Hammer Horror film has lead me to the conclusion some beautiful women have graced Hammer Horror films. Hammer Picture started life in 1934, but by mid-1950s until the 1970s, it was best known as Hammer Horror after making a series of Gothic/Horror.
Hammer Horror was in a league of its own when it came to heaving bosom’s it seem to be a requirement for all the leading ladies. Even the 10-second bit part actresses needed a sizeable chest for when the vampire bit the neck so the blood had somewhere to run also making for an excellent camera shot. Although, in my favourite film ‘Countess Dracula’, it was not always the neck every time it was the breasts of young maidens that fed the vampires their quota of the red stuff.
They employed some amazing actresses in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, including Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch, Ann Todd, Ingrid Pitt, Diane Cilento, Natassja Kinski, and Janette Scott – but these roles mainly concentrated on how good they looked in their dress/underwear/fur bikini. The films are about the ladies but some iconic male actors were part of the Hammer Horror franchise. The likes of Oliver Reed, Ralph Bates, Ian Bannen and the kings of Hammer Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Obviously, the main focus here will be the ladies and there ample chests. Hey, I am a man of tradition and it’s hard to change a lifetime of study. It was really hard to wickle down to a manageable number but I had to.
INGRID PITT:
Regarded by some has the queen of Hammer films and I can go along with that she was breathtakingly beautiful. Hammer Horror’s most celebrated female star. With her fierce, distinctive beauty, trailblazing sexuality, formidable flair and a fine set of lungs.
She starred in 'The Vampire Lovers' (1970), plays Camilla, a beautiful blood-sucking lesbian vampire with milky white skin and a thirst for the blood of pretty young virgins. When she attacks Laura (Pippa Steel), the daughter of General von Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing), the general enlists the help of Baron Joachim von Hartog (Douglas Wilmer) to overcome the vampires and bring an end to the terror and bloodshed.
Along the way, Carmilla befriends and seduces Emma (Madeline Smith). Thereafter Emma suffers nightmares of penetration over the heart, and her breast shows tiny wounds. Emma's governess, Madame Perrodot (Kate O'Mara), becomes Carmilla's accomplice. Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday.
MADELINE SMITH:
Madeline Smith another chesty beauty to star in Hammer Horror and in the same film has aforementioned Ingrid Pitt. Boys becaming man lusting after Madeline Smith she was regularly popping up in cameo appearances in films and shows (mostly comedies) and provided sexual titillation that would guarantee young men would want to watch. After The Vampire Lovers her next film was Up Pompeii playing Erotica, again boobs to the forefront.
In The Vampire Lovers, she was on the menu for the lead vampire with the face of an innocent but a body for lust it was in possible for her to play nasty.
JULIE EGE:
Julie Ege was a former Miss Norway. As Hammer's most heavily promoted glamour girl of the 70's she's definitely a favourite of most starring in Creatures the World Forgot and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, the woman with killer cheekbones invaded our lives...and our labidos.
Creatures The World Forgot was definitely X-Rated and we can attribute the sizzling silhouette of Julie Ege for most of that. She became one of the earliest Penthouse Pets. Sadly, she passed away from lung cancer on April 29, 2008, after surviving breast cancer 20 years previously.
These three have something in common besides Hammer, James Bond girls to veering degrees
Madeline Smith – Miss Caruso is an Italian agent seen sleeping with Bond at the beginning of the 1973 film Live and Let Die.Julie Ege – She played the Scandinavian Girl, one of the 10 women of different nationalities being brainwashed by Blofeld, the villain portrayed by Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.Ingrid Pitt – She was uncredited in Octopussy as the voice of the Gallery Mistress. She should have been a Bond Girl has she had all the attributes
The films gave the British censorship board plenty to think about with some bloody sequences scene ending up on the cutting room floor. In America around the time of the Hammer horror films across the pond it was space coming to the forefront, leaving a gap in the market for quality made horror films which Hammer were happy to fill.
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