In this feature, I'll share a guest with you all each week,
and you tell me in only three words, what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Maila "Vampira" Nurmi
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Ed Wood muse
ReplyDeleteShe invented "Goth". Jx
ReplyDeleteHorror hostess pioneer :)
ReplyDeleteHaving moved to So Cal from San Francisco in 1956, before I was born, my family use to watch Vampira on late Saturday night tv. As her horror program of old horror films had run from 1954-1955 on ABC ch 7, and a very short time in 1956 on KHJ ch 9.
They did watch other horror tv show hosts like the Old Woman om KTLA ch 5 1957-1958, Ghoulita 1963 and Jeepers Creepers on KCOP ch 13 1963-1966 and Seymour on KHJ ch 9 and then KTLA ch 5 1969-1974.
I myself remember Jeepers Creepers and Seymour. We would watch their shows and order food from Chicken Delight and Pizza Man.:)
-Rj
Iconic, vampire, model!
ReplyDeleteShe was stunning and just look at what she spawned....Vampira, Elviria, Morticia Addams, Lily Munster, even some of that inspiration in Hester Frump, And a slew of B movie female witches and vampire parts.
What a legend!
ReplyDeleteDamn fine waist!
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Of course! Vampira!
ReplyDeleteFisheries to Hollywood
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