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1 giorno fa · In 1953 a young aspiring actress, Maila Nurmi, needed a costume for an upcoming masquerade party. She drew upon a comic strip of cartoonist and illustrator Charles Addams. The yet unnamed character of Mrs. Addams struck Ms. Nurmi as the perfect look for the party, so she set about creating her own version of the character’s dress.
5 giorni fa · Released in 1982 as part of their album “Walk Among Us,” the song is a tribute to the late Maila Nurmi, also known as Vampira, who was an actress and iconic figure in the realm of horror movies and gothic culture.
3 giorni fa · A 1989 book, James Dean: Shooting Star, attributes the story to a recollection from Maila Nurmi, but as she was not in contact with Dean at the time and hadn’t been for months (she didn’t even know where he was living, sending a postcard to his favorite restaurant for him right before his death) and gives the account nearly verbatim, she must have been remembering the Movie Stars Parade ...
Day the World Ended is a 1955 black-and-white post-atomic bomb world-ending science fiction film. The movie was produced and directed by Roger Corman. The stars are Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch, and Mike Connors. Chet Huntley of NBC, who was later in The Huntley-Brinkley Report, served as the narrator. The story is ...
2 giorni fa · L’une des figures les plus emblématiques est sans doute Maila Nurmi, également connue sous le nom de « Vampira ». Actrice finno-américaine née en 1922, elle a créé et interprété le personnage gothique emblématique dans les années 1950, influençant de nombreux artistes et personnages de fiction ultérieurs.
3 giorni fa · James Dean: The Final Day (1991), features interviews with William Bast, Liz Sheridan and Maila Nurmi. Dean's bisexuality is openly discussed. Episode of Naked Hollywood television miniseries produced by The Oxford Film Company in association the BBC , aired in the US on the A&E Network .
3 giorni fa · Edward D. Wood Jr passed into legend on December 10, 1978 of a heart attack. "For years after his death, Ed and his "spooks" have gone on to achieve cult figure status." I was lucky enough to meet Delores Fuller and Maila Nurmi "Vampira" at a Cult Film Convention at the famous Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood in 1998. Both were very ...
