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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finnish-born actress and television host Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, circa 1956. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) You didn't need ...

The Finland-born, Oregon-bred actress Maila Nurmi's resume reads like the stuff of Hollywood legend. A New York showgirl, she was “discovered” in a Mae West revue and put under contract by Howard ...

Actress and television celebrity; Born December 11, 1921; Died January 10, 2008. MAILA Nurmi, who has died in Hollywood aged 86, became an iconic figure in cinema and television without ever making a ...

Maila Nurmi, an actress who created the glamorous ghoul Vampira in the 1950s, was found dead in her Hollywood home Thursday. She was 86. The cause of death was still being investigated, said Lt. Fred ...

If you have ever saw Ed Wood's camp classic Plan 9 from Outer Space then you may have remember a ghoulish vampire looking girl running around the graveyard scenes. That character was called Vampira ...

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 ...

On Nov. 28, 1956, a down-at-the-heels actress dressed in a revealing homemade vampire costume walked out of her tiny apartment at 5906 Carlton Way in Hollywood, California. Unable to spring for cab ...

Finnish creative studio ICS Nordic is to produce a factual series and documentary film about the life of actress Maila Nurmi, best known for creating the gothic horror character Vampira on US ...