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14 feb 2020 · Maila Nurmi in 1947. Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality. Her fame springs from her creation of the 1950s television character Vampira, later imitated in the 1980s by Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark .
29 ott 2015 · Apart from that big-screen homage, though, time hasn’t exactly been kind to the memory of Vampira, née Maila Nurmi from Finland. When she shuffled off this mortal coil in 2008, it was in ...
In 1954, a 31-year old former model, nightclub coat-check attendant and necktie painter named Maila Nurmi attended a Hollywood party with her husband, actor-writer Dean Riesner. She made her own vampire costume, inspired by the cartoons of Charles Addams, out of fabric scraps. She must have cut quite a profile because months later another attendee …
Maila Nurmi as Vampira Was Simply AmazingOn the 1st of May 1954, at a ball, Maila became the first actress to ever pull off a vanishing act. A real magical C...
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7 mag 2021 · He kept thinking of the woman in the vampire costume. He asked around to find out who she was. Designer Rudy Gernreuch recognized her as the “first woman in Southern California to wear backless shoes,” and gave Stromberg her name—Maila Nurmi. [1] She was born Maila Elizabeth Niemi on December 11, 1922, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
11 mar 2021 · To say Maila Nurmi’s Vampira is iconic underscores the electric force of the visual image. Niemi’s biography takes readers on a thorough tour of how the clothing, hair, makeup—the whole persona—came to be. From early in Nurmi’s life, she practiced a kind of DIY art life.
1 apr 2021 · Maila Nurmi came to Hollywood in the 1940s, dreaming of fame and fortune. And after more than a decade of ups and downs, she had, briefly, attained it. She achieved international renown as Vampira, the world’s first horror movie TV host, setting the standard for what a horror queen femme fatale should aspire to, as well as laying the groundwork for the goth look decades before its time.
