Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 - January 10, 2008), [1] known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American actress who created the campy 1950s character Vampira . She was raised in Astoria, Oregon, where she worked in tuna and salmon canneries. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1940, with hopes of becoming an actress. 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.
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Vampira, Hollywood's original Goth, emerges from the shadows in a new biography Finnish-born actress and television host Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, circa 1956. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images). She became Vampira, host of a local Los Angeles TV show that screened old horror movies. Later, she appeared in a horror movie herself -- or, to be more exact, a horrible movie -- the Ed Wood. Synopsis The show began each week showing Vampira slowly walking towards the camera, fog surrounding her, before stopping, and letting out a scream. She'd talk to the viewer, usually sitting on a Victorian era sofa that was decorated with skulls. 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.
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Home Business Business News Maila Nurmi, TV's Vampira, dies at 85 Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She. Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los Angeles. 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 books, what she described as "the world of the. 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.
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When Maila Nurmi took to the TV airwaves in 1954 as the original gothic scream queen Vampira, a national craze was set off. Haughty, domineering, and an instant icon of female power and sexuality, Vampira cast her spell over other rebels and rabble-rousers of the day, including James Dean, Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley. But the woman behind the facade was both far more intricate and much. Who was Vampira? You may know she was in one of the most notoriously bad movies of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space, or that she was the basis for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. But the story of Maila Nurmi, an American-Finnish actor who wanted to be a star, has more twists and turns than any B-movie could ever contain.
Maila Nurmi was a Finnish immigrant who started acting and modeling in the 1940s, posing for cheesecake photos and doing some burlesque. Her Vampira character first got started when she wore a plunging dress and exaggerated eye makeup look inspired by Mrs. Addams to a Hollywood costume party. Via/ Wiki Commons. As detailed in W. Scott Poole's 2014 biography, Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror, Nurmi was born Elizabeth Maila Syrjäniemi in Gloucester, Mass. In a bit of myth-making, she chose Petsamo as her birthplace to bolster her claim that she was the niece of Finnish Olympic diver Paavo Nurmi. Nevertheless, Nurmi was of Finnish descent.
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Dana Gould Interviews Vampira (Maila Nurmi)A segment of The Big Scary Movie Show on the Sci-Fi Network Maila Nurmi as Vampira "I love your dress," Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack) tells Anjelica Huston's Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values."It's so…tight." "Thank you," Morticia purrs. Huston was a model in the 1960's, but I think she was at her most beautiful as the moody matriarch of the Addams clan in her trailing black hobble skirt, middle parted hair and luxurious.
