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Vampira and Me: Directed by Ray Greene. With Maila Nurmi, Gloria Pall, Ray Greene, Dana Gould. When Maila Nurmi took to the TV airwaves in 1954 as the prototypal gothic scream queen Vampira, a national craze was set off.
Apr 28, 2024 · Maila actually based the Vampira character on Morticia Addams from the Addams Family cartoons. Her husband, Dean Riesner, came up with the name Vampira. At the height of her popularity, she was so famous that she appeared in a sketch on the The Red Skelton Show with horror greats Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, and Lon Chaney Jr.
Maila Nurmi (born Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi, December 21, 1921 in Petsamo, Finland—now Pechenga, Russia) created the well-remembered 1950s character of Vampira. Her portrayal of this character as a television horror host and in films was influential over decades that followed. Born Maila Syrjäniemi, she claimed to be the niece of the Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi, who began setting long ...
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Jan 16, 2008 · Jan. 16, 2008 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. In the early days of television, when horror movies were often campy by nature, actress Maila Nurmi created the character Vampira, a glamorous ghoul who ...
Oct 19, 2016 · On January 10, 2008, Nurmi died of natural causes at her home in Hollywood at age 85. She was buried in the Griffith Lawn section of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. 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.
The Vampira Show: With Maila Nurmi. The Vampira Show was a hosted horror movie show, with Vampira played by Maila Nurmi; aired on KABC-TV Channel 7, Los Angeles, California (USA) between 30 April 1954 till 2 April 1955.
