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 ...

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 ...

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 spooky-yet-sexy goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. Nurmi died Thursday 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 ...

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 ...

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Super7 launched a ReAction action figure of the presenter of the television program The Vampira Show, which aired vintage horror films between 1954 and 1955. The Vampira ReAction Figure captures the ...

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 ...

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, ...