Ah,
rtpoe, you beat me to it. Ms.
Pitt continued the tradition of Polish women having big boobs, or as the
Daily Telegraph put it, an
"equally formidable embonpoint". Her partner-in-crime in those films, Maddy Smith, was the first Bond girl to appear in
Live and Let Die -- remember the Italian woman whose dress was unzipped by Bond using that magnetic watch attachment thing? -- and was also pretty bosomy herself. In a
2009 BBC interview she explains how she did it:
The Vampire Lovers was a much more adult direction for Hammer in 1970...
I have to remind you of my previous remark about being completely gormless and innocent - we've only moved on about three months.
I got a very worried phone call from the producer who said he was concerned about my lack of bosom. He said 'we like you a lot, but we don't think you are voluptuous enough'.
I reassured him, and then I scuttled off to Hornby and Clarke dairy round the corner and I bought every yoghurt I could find and stuffed myself like you might fatten cattle, and it worked!
As you see [motions to cover of book Hammer Glamour: Classic Images from the Archive of Hammer Films on which her and her bosom appear], need I say more?
Ms. Pitt was much more than just a scream queen: not only did she appear in
Doctor Who and
Ironside, she was a novelist and writer who published almost a dozen books, earned a black belt in karate (she trained in the same dojo as
Elvis Presley did), was a judge for the British talent contest
New Faces, and earned a pilots license.
She will be missed.