Madeline Smith on Hammer Films and Alec Guinness

We're continuing our revisit of an impromptu interview we recorded with Madeline Smith at Elstree Studios when we were recording our Peter Cushing documentary a couple of years ago.
Here she talks about Hammer Films and working with the incredible Alec Guinness.
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[@stephenphillip5656]

She's even more beautiful than the Madeline I fell in love with in 1971 when I was 16. Sharp mind & witty, she's still got "it". What a lady.

[@drivesafely12]

Amazing raconteur.

[@aDrift2003]

She is the sort of girl you never fall out of lust with; she will never be old.

[@barryrudge1576]

She still looks good in her 70's

[@alanbush4192]

the sharp minded side we never saw . i fell in love with Maddy the first time i saw her. I love even more now!! she is beautiful

[@Toracube]

She seems a wonderful lady. The camera loved her.

[@reader1956]

She is amazing. What a wonder it would be to sit and talk with her.

[@stevenkirby8058]

Madeline you are just wonderful.

[@zamiadams4343]

Thanks for this! Madeline is still as beautiful as she was back them, amazing actress.

[@eamonmcdermott4032]

Madeline Smith! What a gorgeous woman.

[@danieladams9950]

Madeline was a regular on BBC kids infotainment show 'Eureka'. Aged 12 to this person she seemed impossibly beautiful.

[@Kirkdicanio88]

I used to watch that. Just for her of course. She WAS impossibly beautiful

[@jorgezarco9269]

I've had a soft spot for Madeline Smith ever since Live and Let Die(1973).

[@johnmcgahern3946]

"Hard spot" more like!

[@douglasjblakeley9979]

Met Madeline once such a lovely woman

[@Freakaboogie]

cool. good to see her again!

[@redblade8160]

Freakaboogie
What a very boring life you must live if this is the highlight of it.

[@fatbelly27]

Underrated comic actress. Gorgeous.

[@darrenclements6028]

Madeline Smith is legendary actress of all time

[@ajdc88]

ridiculously beautiful

[@ivanconnolly7332]

Jimmy Edwards burns were the result of being shot down while piloting a Dakota transport during operation market garden!.

[@deborahhunter2648]

Sweet and lovely. Remember the shampoo ad?!

[@Kirkdicanio88]

Hell yeah!

[@carolebarker2195]

With the viking, lol!! Legendary! "Plundering...running amok...."

[@midnightalley4586]

She is smokin

[@carpetfluff35]

I've briefly met Madeline a few times through work and she's very sweet. I'd never admit to her what a crush I had on her during her Hammer years.

[@jamesjameson4566]

You used to hammer away at it

[@jonathanpoole5316]

Well Madeline had a very obvious advantage over her peers, not the well--spoken accent or the apparent intelligence or the demenour of a good education, but rather that she always looked like she had been shot in the back with two cruise missiles and she was game for a laugh on top of the aforementioned attributes, so it has pricked my bubble slightly that she was unhappy and felt coerced about sharing her magnificent assets with me for the "Japanese edit" of Hammer's "The Vampire Lovers". As a teenage boy I always wanted to see more of her spectacular presence 😊

[@M123OCT]

Wonderful, dahling. So generous.

[@johnnyM809]

The beautiful Maddy Smith..

[@jtshark9283]

She had a great line a few years ago after a few of her more infamous movies were screened and a critic said something about make up and enhancements. She paused and said "Nope, those were all mine and there were no enhancements as you suggested". The guy shrunk away

[@mikearchibald744]

And what if they were? Like male actors don't ever have 'enhancements'. Thats NOT actually a critic but a douchebag.

[@lv2465]

I remember her well in Vampire Lovers with Ingrid Pitt. Great movie.

[@Kirkdicanio88]

Why did he pull a face when she wanted to carry on talking? She’s lovely I wish I could talk with her all day

[@alexcampbell3032]

He's a knob end.

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

She was being a bit flirty, touching him, tapping his arm. Lovely lady.

[@frankscivier4874]

Madeline Smith was one of the most beautiful ladies to ever grace British film and television. She’s still highly attractive now in her 70’s and you can tell from this interview that she’s a very smart lady and isn’t just a pretty face.

[@stevenmorley1639]

Super high quality lady .. full of gravitas 💘 😻

[@redblade8160]

Steven Morley
And you are full of sick talk!

[@stevenmorley1639]

@@redblade8160 Do you yourself a favour and make an appointment with a Physiological Professional you sick puppy 🐶 !.

[@BedsitBob]

Very beautiful lady.

[@user-wu7oy7iw8n]

Just watched Madeline performing in the ‘Two Ronnies’ series 1 & two.

[@davy_K]

My God she looks great. Huge teen crush for me.

[@jordantolley1359]

Amazing

[@redblade8160]

Jordan Tolley
It does not take much to "amaze" you then.

[@seniorslaphead8336]

So tactile and engaging. Poor boy didn't know what to do with himself. Maybe she learned a thing or two from Ingrid Pitt.

[@BedsitBob]

She can paw me, any time she likes.

[@grahamfisher5436]

3.32
that look...
here we go
do tell ??!!
I bet some folks held their breathe

[@Ampex196]

The music 'loop' sounds like 'Chelsea Chick' from the BBC test card library? ?? It's now 'stuck in my head' so to speak!

[@adaptandsucceed6875]

Jeremy Nicholas appeared in Stop The Week on BBC Radio 4.

[@carljan57]

What a gorgeous woman.

[@kevinobrien3915]

Lovely lady of hammer

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

"Darlings, luvvies; such wonderful, wonderful people!!"

[@andypewter196]

Love Maddie x

[@Rog5446]

How can an actor do a one man show on Three Men in a Boat?

[@thewomble1509]

Look it up. Several actors have done that play as a one hander.