Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halloween requires a mention of Astoria’s own Finnish wasp-waisted glamour ghoul, Vampira, aka Astoria High School graduate Maila ...

Maila Nurmi was a Hollywood beatnik who caught the eye of Hunt Stromberg, a TV producer looking for a way to spice up reruns of old horror movies on Channel 7. He spotted Nurmi at a party dressed in ...

On April 30, 1954, KABC-TV premiered, Dig Me Later, Vampira, at 11 p.m. Maila Nurmi debuted as the ghoulish horror movie hostess Vampira. In a slinky black dress and pale facial makeup, she came ...

Vampira, portrayed by Maila Nurmi, was the first television horror hostess who made her debut on screens in 1954 with The Vampira Show. Gothic horror aesthetics and the dark glamour of Morticia Addams ...

Despite a regrettable dearth of visual material of Maila Nurmi in her signature role as early TV horror icon Vampira, R.H. Greene‘s docu succeeds admirably in transposing his 2010 radio documentary ...

Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. By The Associated Press Maila Nurmi, whose “Vampira” TV persona ...

If you have ever saw Ed Wood's camp classic Plan 9 from Outer Space then you may have remember a ghoulish vampire looking girl running around the graveyard scenes. That character was called Vampira ...

The Vampira Show was an American variety show hosted by Vampira. The series aired on the Los Angeles ABC television affiliate KABC-TV from April 30, 1954, through April 2, 1955. The series was ...

Maila Elizabeth Niemi, aka Maila Nurmi, aka TV hostess Vampira (in 1954), may have been born Dec. 11, 1922 in Finland, and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, but she was still an Astoria girl who ...

A reconstructed episode of The Vampira Show was released from the Vampira's Attic web site in October 2007. The release imitated a complete episode by using existing footage of the show combined with ...

Halloween requires a mention of Astoria’s own Finnish wasp-waisted glamour ghoul, Vampira, aka Astoria High School graduate Maila Nurmi. In 1954 Los Angeles, she was the first late-night horror movie ...