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Vampira and Me also features extensive clips from two previously unknown 16mm kinescopes of Nurmi as Vampira on national TV shows, including her starring guest spot on the April 2, 1955, episode of The George Gobel Show, a top 10 hit.
Oct 11, 2023 · Although The Vampira Show lasted for just one year and wasn't seen outside of Southern California, it made its spooky, wasp-waisted hostess a national star. Vampira hobbed-knobbed with celebrities and made guest appearances on popular network shows.
Feb 21, 2008 · NOW ON DVD!See the rare opening from the original 1954 Vampira Show!Complete episode now available on DVD exclusively at Vampira's Attic.
Actress: Vampira Returns. The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, was actually born Maila Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Gloucester, Massachusetts (not Finland as she often claimed).
In 1954, a 31-year old former model, nightclub coat-check attendant and necktie painter named Maila Nurmi attended a Hollywood party with her husband, actor-writer Dean Riesner. She made her own vampire costume, inspired by the cartoons of Charles Addams, out of fabric scraps.
Jan 12, 2021 · In "Glamour Ghoul," a niece of Maila Nurmi — better known as Vampira — documents the exciting, fraught Hollywood life of a bygone horror camp icon.
Maila Nurmi as Vampira Was Simply Amazing On the 1st of May 1954, at a ball, Maila became the first actress to ever pull off a vanishing act. A real magical Cinderella move, and it became the...
Oct 19, 2016 · Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress who created the 1950s character Vampira. She was mostly known as TV’s first horror host and in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space. Vampira is known as the Dark Goddess of Horror.
Actress: Vampira Returns. The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, was actually born Maila Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Gloucester, Massachusetts (not Finland as she often claimed).
In the mid-1950s, pin up girl turned actor MAILA NURMI created the world's first TV horror host, VAMPIRA, a persona that proved to be as wicked a presence i...
