While burning the midnight oil I will sometimes enjoy mentally creating a rank of the Hammer vampire women in terms of most favorite to least or more powerful presentation of an actress to lessor degree in presentation. Note of course that this is purely personal and relevant as to how an actress plays a part, often dictated by the script and director, so that the role can be played exotically or more girl next door type
What would your ranking of the Hammer vampire women be and how would you type them,
Here is my list ranking from most favorite to least and in parenthesis I am adding my own type description:
"Brides of Dracula"
Gina (Andree Melly): Girl next door type mixed with graveyard aura
"Horror of Dracula"
Vampire woman (Valerie gaunt): exotic / sensual
Lucy (Carol Marsh): girl next door type / graveyard aura
"Dracula Prince of Darkness"
Helen (Barbara Shelley): exotic sensual
"Brides of Dracula"
Marie Deveraux (village girl vampire): graveyard aura
"Kiss of the Vampire"
Isobel Black (Tanya) : exotic sensual / girl next door type
"Scars of Dracula"
Anouska Hempel (Tanya): exotic sensual
"The Vampoire Lovers"
Kirsten Betts (First vampire): exotic sensual
"Satanic Rites of Dracula"
Valerie Van Ost (Jane): girl next door type / graveyard aura)
"Captain Kronus Vampire Hunter"
Wanda Ventham (Lady Durwood) : exotic sensual
"Lust for a Vampire"
Yutte Stensgarrd (Mircalla) girl next door type
"Taste the Blood of Dracula"
Isla Blair (Lucy) girl next door type
"Dracula Has Risen From The Grave"
Barbara Ewing (Zena) : girl next door type
"Vampire Circus"
Lalla Ward (Helga): girl next door type
"Twins off Evil"
Katya Wyth (Mircalla) : girl next door type
Other actress I have left out include Pauline Peart and the other Count Yorga type vampire women in Satanic Rites of Dracula simply because they were on screen for too little time - although it looks like Warner Bros and Hammer were building up Pauline Peart in their publicity as the key book of stills is jammed pack with publicity portrait shots of Ms Peart but this does not materialize on screen; Ditto I have not counted in Julie Ege in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires because she only tuned into a vampire for nano seconds at the end end was immediately staked; I have also not counted the lovely blond behind the credits of Kiss of the Vampire and after some thoughts did not count Jaquie Wallis in Kiss of the Vampire because although a sizable role she did not wear fangs BUT if I were too add her she would be of the girl next door type and would probably be more towards the end of the ranking
Again I have to emphasize that the rank position is based on my own personal like and I have shared my views with friends and they have said for example that they do not like Andree Melly's face in Brides of Dracula and that they like Jaquie Wallis in Kiss of the Vampire : so to each his own!
Some actresses I did not put into the list because they were so outstanding in acting (Ingrid Pitt) that she would be in a league of her own; Likewise, I did not include Martita Hunt because she played an old woman vampire and because of her magnificent acting she woulld also be in a large of the own
Funnily enough I did not include Madleine Collinson from Twins of Evil because she can not be separated from her twin (Mary C.) but if I were to type her she would be of the girl next door type and possibly somewhere in the mid range of rank
The above can also be of interest to those who may wonder about the popularity of a known actrees in an iconic role and the publicity - for example Andree Mellty got more publicity and pictures in Famous Monsters than Marie Deveraux; Marie Devaraux also did not have any dialogue but her effectiveness is related to her sequence of coming out from the grave and when she is coupled with Andree Melly on the windmill plafform
As an aside one can wonder why Hammer appeared to have played down the beauty of Marie Deveraux because she is really outstanding in her famous nuddy modeling photos - maybe Hammer may have wanted Yvonne Monlaur to stand out and once they discovered that Andree Melly was the sister of George Melly working for the newspaper The Daily Mail that may have meant free publicity or maybe the Marie Deveraux nuddy modeling photo history may not have been a problem in the UK but in good ol' USA where the film would be exploited to teenagers it may have come back to haunt Universsl?
At any rate they are all beautiful
What would your ranking of the Hammer vampire women be and how would you type them,
Here is my list ranking from most favorite to least and in parenthesis I am adding my own type description:
"Brides of Dracula"
Gina (Andree Melly): Girl next door type mixed with graveyard aura
"Horror of Dracula"
Vampire woman (Valerie gaunt): exotic / sensual
Lucy (Carol Marsh): girl next door type / graveyard aura
"Dracula Prince of Darkness"
Helen (Barbara Shelley): exotic sensual
"Brides of Dracula"
Marie Deveraux (village girl vampire): graveyard aura
"Kiss of the Vampire"
Isobel Black (Tanya) : exotic sensual / girl next door type
"Scars of Dracula"
Anouska Hempel (Tanya): exotic sensual
"The Vampoire Lovers"
Kirsten Betts (First vampire): exotic sensual
"Satanic Rites of Dracula"
Valerie Van Ost (Jane): girl next door type / graveyard aura)
"Captain Kronus Vampire Hunter"
Wanda Ventham (Lady Durwood) : exotic sensual
"Lust for a Vampire"
Yutte Stensgarrd (Mircalla) girl next door type
"Taste the Blood of Dracula"
Isla Blair (Lucy) girl next door type
"Dracula Has Risen From The Grave"
Barbara Ewing (Zena) : girl next door type
"Vampire Circus"
Lalla Ward (Helga): girl next door type
"Twins off Evil"
Katya Wyth (Mircalla) : girl next door type
Other actress I have left out include Pauline Peart and the other Count Yorga type vampire women in Satanic Rites of Dracula simply because they were on screen for too little time - although it looks like Warner Bros and Hammer were building up Pauline Peart in their publicity as the key book of stills is jammed pack with publicity portrait shots of Ms Peart but this does not materialize on screen; Ditto I have not counted in Julie Ege in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires because she only tuned into a vampire for nano seconds at the end end was immediately staked; I have also not counted the lovely blond behind the credits of Kiss of the Vampire and after some thoughts did not count Jaquie Wallis in Kiss of the Vampire because although a sizable role she did not wear fangs BUT if I were too add her she would be of the girl next door type and would probably be more towards the end of the ranking
Again I have to emphasize that the rank position is based on my own personal like and I have shared my views with friends and they have said for example that they do not like Andree Melly's face in Brides of Dracula and that they like Jaquie Wallis in Kiss of the Vampire : so to each his own!
Some actresses I did not put into the list because they were so outstanding in acting (Ingrid Pitt) that she would be in a league of her own; Likewise, I did not include Martita Hunt because she played an old woman vampire and because of her magnificent acting she woulld also be in a large of the own
Funnily enough I did not include Madleine Collinson from Twins of Evil because she can not be separated from her twin (Mary C.) but if I were to type her she would be of the girl next door type and possibly somewhere in the mid range of rank
The above can also be of interest to those who may wonder about the popularity of a known actrees in an iconic role and the publicity - for example Andree Mellty got more publicity and pictures in Famous Monsters than Marie Deveraux; Marie Devaraux also did not have any dialogue but her effectiveness is related to her sequence of coming out from the grave and when she is coupled with Andree Melly on the windmill plafform
As an aside one can wonder why Hammer appeared to have played down the beauty of Marie Deveraux because she is really outstanding in her famous nuddy modeling photos - maybe Hammer may have wanted Yvonne Monlaur to stand out and once they discovered that Andree Melly was the sister of George Melly working for the newspaper The Daily Mail that may have meant free publicity or maybe the Marie Deveraux nuddy modeling photo history may not have been a problem in the UK but in good ol' USA where the film would be exploited to teenagers it may have come back to haunt Universsl?
At any rate they are all beautiful
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