Search results
After the show's cancellation, she appeared in the 1959 cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Ed Wood. [4] She is also billed as Vampira, despite not playing the character, in the 1959 films The Beat Generation , where she plays a beatnik poet, [ 5 ] and crime film The Big Operator .
In 1959, Nurmi revived her character, Vampira, to appear in the sci-fi horror film Plan 9 from Outer Space. The bizarre film, written, directed, and produced by Ed Wood, featured aliens, a doomsday weapon, the undead, and, of course, Vampira.
The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (before Lugosi's death in August 1956, Wood had shot silent footage of Lugosi for another, unfinished film, which was inserted into Plan 9).
Oct 11, 2023 · Despite this brief glimpse at Vampira exercising her sardonic wit over a "vampire cocktail," Maila Nurmi is best remembered for her appearance in Ed Wood's notorious Plan 9 From Outer Space.
- William J. Wright
Maila Nurmi talks about her creation of the Vampira character and her career.TIME Magazine Obit. 1/28/2008: "Before Elvira, before Morticia Addams, there was...
- 4 min
- 99K
- Si Melzer
2 days ago · Directed by Ed Wood. Starring Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, Maila Nurmi. Approx. 79 min. 16mm print courtesy Harvard Film Archive. Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, a chiropractor in a cloak, washed-up cowboy actors, movie-crazy Baptists and The Amazing Criswell star in this tale of earth’s invasion by flying ...
People also ask
Was Nurmi in Plan 9 from Outer Space?
When did Plan 9 come out?
Who was Maila Nurmi on 'the Vampira Show'?
Did Vampira make Maila Nurmi rich?
Jan 16, 2008 · Nurmi, who appeared in director Edward D. Wood Jr.’s 1959 film “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” was found dead Jan. 10 in her Hollywood home.
