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, ...

LOS ANGELES — Maila Nurmi, whose “Vampira” TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner’s officials said. She was 85. Ms. Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood ...

Maila Nurmi is better known as Vampira, the first TV horror hostess. In 1953, Nurmi attended a Halloween party dressed in a costume that was inspired by Morticia Addams from The Addams Family comic ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maila Nurmi, whose “Vampira” TV persona pioneered the Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner”s officials said. She was 85. Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los ...

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 ...

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 at her Hollywood home, Los ...

Finnish-born actress and television host Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, circa 1956. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms ...

Hers is the classic entertainment story of broken promises, except in her case, Maila Nurmi achieved something that transcended the shoddy treatment she received from the Industry: lasting impact as ...

“Who is SHE?” asked Cover Girls Models magazine. The answer: “She’s new, exciting, exotic. She has the long, clean-limbed look of a dancer (which she is) and the seductive stare of sirens immemorial.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...