Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. By The Associated Press Maila Nurmi, whose “Vampira” TV persona ...

Vampira, portrayed by Maila Nurmi, was the first television horror hostess who made her debut on screens in 1954 with The Vampira Show. Gothic horror aesthetics and the dark glamour of Morticia Addams ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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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, ...