The tour includes the attic apartment where Maila Nurmi lived with her cat Lucifer P. Catt and the Labor Temple where she ...

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 ...

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 ...

ICS Nordic is working on a 3×30-minute documentary series and 90-minute feature doc about Maila Nurmi, the American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira. The series and ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago, I noted the passing of horror hostess Maila Nurmi, better known as Vampira. Now I sadly must mark the passing of the Tennessee Valley’s own horror host.

The Vampira Facebook page had an intriguing tidbit about the Astoria High School graduate and Los Angeles horror movie hostess: “Maila Nurmi was featured in the 1959 film noir classic, ‘The Big ...

ICS Nordic is working on a 3x30-minute documentary series and 90-minute feature doc about Maila Nurmi, the American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira.

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

A preview of Vampira (played by Maila Nurmi) and her new show "The Vampira Show".