My first Hammer role: with Ralph Bates in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Hammer Films is to rise again under new owners. When the ailing company needed a boost 50 years ago, budding actress Madeline Smith discovered nudity was a must
Hammer Films is to rise again under new owners. When the ailing company needed a boost 50 years ago, budding actress Madeline Smith discovered nudity was a must
Half a century ago, I took my first foray into Hammer Films.
My acting career was in its infancy when I went to meet formidable casting director Aida Young. I was up for the tiny part of Dolly, the waif prostitute in their latest horror offering, Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970). She considered me to be sufficiently vulnerable, and a couple of days later I was riding on actor Geoffrey Keen’s back.
