Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. By The Associated Press Maila Nurmi, whose “Vampira” TV persona ...

Despite a regrettable dearth of visual material of Maila Nurmi in her signature role as early TV horror icon Vampira, R.H. Greene‘s docu succeeds admirably in transposing his 2010 radio documentary ...

Somewhere, Maila Nurmi is smiling. The woman behind Vampira – the character credited with being the first-ever television horror host, the trailblazer for others like Elvira, and undoubtedly the old ...

The name Maila Nurmi may not ring any bells at first, but her alter-ego, Vampira, was nothing short of a belle from hell! Read on for 8 little known facts about this Gothic goddess! 1. Back in the ...

You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms of Maila Nurmi — a.k.a. Vampira — when she first appeared on late-night KABC-TV in the spring of 1954. But it ...

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 ...

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 as hostess of late-night fright films in the ...

Before she ascended to infamy at the helm of The Vampira Show, Nurmi grew up the gawky daughter of immigrant parents, escaping from her small life to find fame in Los Angeles. There she supported ...

The story of Malia "Vampira" Nurmi, living on the very edge of show business, and her rise to celluloid cultdom 50 years later. Her big break came in 1954 when she played the "glamour ghoul" Vampira, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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 at her Hollywood home, Los ...

LOS ANGELES — 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, ...

Though most people knew her as Vampira, a late-night, creature-feature host in Los Angeles, Maila Nurmi was so much more. From her relationships with James Dean and other Hollywood luminaries to her ...