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Oct 29, 2015 · The Vampira Show officially debuted on L.A.’s KABC-TV May 1, 1954. On it, Nurmi appeared wraithlike, porcelain-complected, and wasp-waisted (reportedly just 17 inches, her hourglass figure was ...
Oct 7, 2021 · October 23rd, 8:00pm $10. An obscure Finnish documentary that chronicles the life of Maila Nurmi. As Vampira, she broke ground in 1956 as the very first television horror host. Nurmi lit up Saturday night television sets with her cinched waist on Los Angeles station KABC-TV. Off set, Maila’s life and demeanor perfectly complemented her eerie ...
Sep 3, 2014 · Waist shrunken to a ghastly circumference, her eyebrows archly painted, her long black hair swirling behind and around her, she shocked, titillated, angered, obsessed. ... Maila Nurmi hung out ...
Nov 3, 2019 · To mark the Halloween season, film and culture writer Sabina Stent looks back on Dennis Stock’s photographs of one of America’s first horror heroines – Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira. As a child, Maila Nurmi was not invited to Halloween parties. She considered herself awkward and gangly, but found solace and escape in fantasy novels and comic ...
Oct 14, 2016 · Maila Nurmi (aka ‘Vampira’) looking gorgeously goth at the beach with her umbrella, mid-1950s. Maila Nurmi the captivatingly gorgeous Finnish model and actress with a tiny nineteen-inch waist, created an instant sensation when she attended a masquerade ball in Hollywood in 1953. She was dressed as the cartoon character created by longtime New Yorker contributor Charles Addams that would ...
Oct 8, 2013 · Maila Nurmi Measurements. Just in case you are curious about Maila Nurmi 's measurements, Nurmi's measurements were: 38-17-36. As for her height, Maila Nurmi ( birth name: Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi) was 5' 6½" (or 1.69 m). What do you think of Maila Nurmi's measurements? Feel free to comment and share this blog post if you find it interesting!
Maila Nurmi. 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). Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo Nurmi. It was director Howard Hawks, of all people, who ...
