Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Charleston-based author and CofC professor W. Scott Poole makes it clear in the introduction of ...

RH Greene turned his Off-Ramp documentary about 1950s TV sensation "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) into a film that's nominated for best documentary in the LA Film Festival. In 1954, Maila Nurmi shocked the ...

Hollywood has lost another legend. Maila Nurmi, who became synonymous with her character, Vampira, passed away in her sleep yesterday at the age of 86. She was born Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi on ...

A FEDERAL judge on Monday dismissed one of the claims made against TV’s campy fright-movie hostess Elvira in a $10 million unfair-competition lawsuit filed by Vampira, a 1950s horror queen. The two ...

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 ...

Very few people these days remember the name Vampira. And even fewer people, unless you're a true movie buff, know the name Maila Nurmi, the actress who portrayed the TV character with a cult ...

Late actress Maila Nurmi — who created the 1950s character Vampira — gave an interview less than four weeks before her death in 2008, recounting her relationships with screen legends James Dean, ...

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 ...

5. In the 1980’s Vampira was no more. Maila started to write a book about the underbelly of 1950’s Hollywood. It was never published. 6. One of her closest friends was James Dean. She explained their ...