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Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous.

Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer’s female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?)

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September 29, 2009
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9.83 x 0.79 x 11.75 inches
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1848562292
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`Go ahead and order the book from Titan right away. Trust me, you won't regret it'. --All Things Horror

`This book will sit proudly on your coffee table' --Sci-Fi Now

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Marcus Hearn was the editor of Hammer Horror magazine, and with co-author Alan Barnes, he has written The Hammer Story, Tarantino A-Zed, and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Hearn is also the author of The Cinema of George Lucas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books; Illustrated edition (September 29, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848562292
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848562295
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.83 x 0.79 x 11.75 inches

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Will

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2023

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This is a book about the women who stared in Hammer film from the 1950s to 1970s. Book contains a short bio on each actress and what film they were in and if they were in multiple films. Also has a few glamor or sexy images of the actress from behind scenes or promo photos. I have a few issues with this book as it is not consistent on how many pages are allowed per actress. Some have a single page while others have two or up to four pages on them. There were a few that had four pages were only in one film, while some of the ones that are two pages where in three to five other hammer films. There are also actress missing from the book. Example Andree Melly who is heavily featured in the Brides of Dracula and is on all the art work for that films posters is nowhere in this book I think a revised edition is needed of this book

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They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2010

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What do you think of when you think of Hammer Horror films? Here is at any rate what comes to my semi-educated mind:

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, scary laboratories, spooky castles, crosses, relics, "German" peasants who speak Cockney, great period clothing, terrible period sets, horrible murders, gallons of Technicolor blood...and hot women in nightdress showing lots of cleavage. It is to this last category that HAMMER GLAMOUR is addressed. Because let's face it, friends and neighbors, at least half the reason to watch a Hammer horror film, then as now, is to scope out the astonishly deep talent-pool of European hotties whose necks were coveted by The Count and whose bodies were coveted by The Audience. To that end, Marcus Hearn has compiled a large coffee-table book packed to the rafters with glamour photographs of Hammer's equivalent of "Bond girls", each featuring a small and rather frank biography of the lady in question, including, of course, what Hammer films they appeared in. He has also thrown in various moviemaking trivia, often amusing and occasionally touching, which may be of interest to those who are afficianados of this "golden age of classic horror."

But this book is mainly about the flesh, and there is a lot of it, including the occasional nude. No less than fifty women are included in the main pictoral, with a few others tucked into an "also starring" appendix at the end. Aside from the obvious blazing hotness of some, it is of sociological/anthropological/some-type-of-ogical interest to see how the definition of "beautiful" changed during the period when Hammer was in operation (late 1950s - mid-1970s): some of the girls are built like Twiggy, and others like Marilyn Monroe. And while most of them never achieved anything close to stardom, the presence of Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch, Stefanie Powers, Nastassja Kinski and Hazel Court prove that appearing half-naked in films with names like "DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE" and "FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!" wasn't necessarily a career-killer.

The book is standard coffee-table in that it is large, heavy, slightly unweildy and light on text. The quality of the photos is good - in some cases too good to be flattering - some of the girls are lethally good-looking and the anecdotes about their experiences on set are often quite funny. This is obviously a speciality item, but in my experience sex appeal is a thing without borders, and if you can't appreciate the female form, well, then, there's something seriously wrong with you. In any case, if you're a fan of Hammer Horror, and the busty babes who made it what it was, this probably qualifies as a must-have.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2010

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As a major Hammer Studios fan I regret having to be the skunk at this little garden party. I believe, however, two points need to be made about this publication for those who are discriminating book collectors.

First, the cover on this (as well as on "The Hammer Story," which is also by Titan) is not cloth-covered hardbound. It is, instead, shiny paper-covered hardbound. Do you remember the type of covers on Dr. Seuss books? Think also of the books that they have in the discount bins at book retailers, the ones which look really cheaply produced. That's what you have here. I was appalled when I saw that they cut this corner. These covers do not hold up over the years. They get all dinged and scuffed up and look like junk in no time. I would have gladly spent another ten bucks, or more, for a quality production. Hammer fans are obviously going to be aesthetically oriented people, and this is low-brow book production.

Second, the photos of the female Hammer stars were disappointing. What you get here is one or two small shots of the star from the movie itself (if any), and then you get a full-page "publicity shot" of the actress which is not even remotely in the gothic context of the film. (She may be wearing a costume from the production, but the vast majority of the shots are entirely stripped of any connection to the film. She might as well be selling dishwashing detergent.) By way of contrast, on the back cover of the dustjacket you have a beautiful and seemingly hypnotized damsel walking amongst headstones in a cemetary while her nightgown is blown slightly open by the winds of menace. The lighting immediately brings to mind scary, and sexy scenarios. It is a haunting, weird, sensual photo which captures the trademark Hammer ambience. Well, you don't get much of that inside the book. Most of these photos are clinical promo shots which, if anything, are the antithesis to the Hammer vibe.

Yes, there is good information ("data") in the book, but I could have obtained that elsewhere. I wanted awesome shots which conveyed the characteristic Hammer beauty which we see and love in their films.

And, I wanted that ambience presented in a well-bound book which surely would have been destined to be a collectible. This book will disappoint the discriminating book-lover and many Hammer afficiandos.

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S P Mead

a stunning collection of photos and information

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 25, 2016

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For fans of the Hammer movies, this book is a treat. It presents a collection of glossy photos as well as detailed information on each of the lovely ladies who starred in the films. These women provided a distinctive 'glamourous' feel to each movie - often in a slightly provocative, alluring manner (and occasionally in a more overtly sexualised fashion).

Drawing of the Hammer achieves, dozens of both colour and black & white photos have been found and assembled. And each actress has, whenever possible, been interviewed - and provided with an opportunity to recollect what it was like taking part in these famous British films.

This is a well-presented book, and it's obvious that a great deal of care and attention has gone into producing it. Typically it's the male protagonists - such as Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - who get all the attention. This book rightly seeks to redress that situation. Now we can once again admire the 'glamour' that was an essential part of Hammer!

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Dorian Gray

Don't Buy This Book !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 27, 2018

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don't buy this book if you've got a dicky heart or a pacemaker fitted !
Hammer Glamour's guaranteed to give you a heart attack !
coz lets face it chaps : who can really remember half their girlfriends ( or their wives ! )
sorry girls !
but these were the Goddesses we really worshipped !

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Jeff L

Fine book detailing most of Hammer's leading ladies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 20, 2019

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Well put together and illustrated book dedicated to the many actresses who worked for the great British studio.
A must for any fan of the Hammer stable of female talent who graced the films of Hammer in the 50s, 60s and 70's. A perfect companion book to The Hammer vault.

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Morpho

Very good, but where are Kirsten Betts or Pippa Steel ?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 19, 2014

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Very nice book with beautiful pictures and full of original informations about Hammer and the actresses. The Hammer fans can't be disappointed.
However, two things bothered me.
First, I do not understand why the author speaks negatively about the movies or scenes where nudity is exploited. If he thinks so, he would not have done this book on the erotic aspects of the Hammer Films. I see a bit of hypocrisy here.
Secondly, I was very surprised to find that Kirsten Betts, one of the most striking female icons of Hammer, is not even mentioned in this book. Everyone remembers the incredible scene in The Vampire Lovers where this beautiful female vampire tries to bite the Baron, and where the latter beheads her with a blade. This is one of the iconic images of the studio. On the other hand, Hy Hazell or Shirley Grey are entitled to an article. Who remembers these Hammer actresses ?
And Pippa Steel, who played not least than two vampire Hammer films, and who does not appear anywhere in this book ... It's beyond comprehension.

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Paul Scollon

Suits you sir!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 10, 2013

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Not at all a book full of naughty pictures (well, some are) but a fantastic insight into the lives of cinema's most overlooked ladies. It's very well researched (fresh interviews were carried out with many of the actresses) and it's amazing to read how many of them went on to be actually quite well known for other things (fashion designers, models, Bond girls - quite a few Bond girls actually). The photos are fantastic too, the cover photo of the busty Madeline Smith is a perfect choice to capture the look of "Hammer Glamour" as a whole - I'll admit it was a deciding factor in my purchase too! To my surprise, my wife also enjoyed flicking through the pages and commenting on some of the lovely ladies and what they were wearing (or NOT wearing) and agreed it was great addition to my horror collection.

A fine present for anyone you know who enjoys the world of Hammer horror. Highly recommended.

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