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    Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American-Finn actress who created the campy...
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    Paavo Johannes Nurmi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpɑːʋo ˈnurmi] ; 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner. He...
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  • Dovima Nurmi, Spanish drag queen Juha Nurmi (born 1959), Finnish retired ice hockey player Luka Nurmi (born 2004), Finnish racing driver Maila Nurmi (1922–2008)...
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    to use a hostess. They asked 1950s' horror hostess Maila Nurmi to revive The Vampira Show. Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when...
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  • by Hunt Stromberg, Jr., and featured the Vampira character created by Maila Nurmi. Though the show was unseen outside of the Los Angeles area, The Vampira...
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    film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi...
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    Red Skelton Show in 1954, alongside Lon Chaney Jr. and Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi). Wood co-produced and directed a crime film, Jail Bait (1954, originally...
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  • television producer best remembered for the discovery and casting of Maila Nurmi as Vampira, and for producing the 1973 film Frankenstein: The True Story...
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  • Finnish gymnast Maila Nurmi (1922–2008), American actress and television personality Maila Rästas (1937–2008), Estonian actress Maila Talvio (1871–1951)...
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  • up vampira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vampira may refer to: Maila Nurmi (1922–2008), 1950s TV horror hostess and star of the 1959 film Plan 9...
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  • Sir George Anne Helm as Princess Helene Liam Sullivan as Sir Branton Maila Nurmi as The Hag / Sorceress Angelo Rossitto as 2nd Dwarf Danielle De Metz...
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  • group that included actor and artist Dennis Hopper and TV horror host Maila Nurmi, also known as Vampira. Dean was photographed at the restaurant by Phil...
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  • 2003. It was hosted by Michelle Trachtenberg in a style similar to Maila Nurmi as horror host "Vampira" and Cassandra Peterson as horror host "Elvira...
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    however, those who knew him, including actress and fellow Plan 9 alumna Maila Nurmi ("Vampira"), believed he was. According to writer Charles A. Coulombe...
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    soundtrack of Vampira: The Movie, a documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels on Maila Nurmi, in which he also stars. It was released on Collectables Records, a division...
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  • screenwriter (aged 64) Jack Nitzsche (1937–2000), composer (aged 63) Maila Nurmi (1922–2008), actress and television host known as Vampira (aged 85) Donald...
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  • names of supermodel Dovima and actress Maila Nurmi, who was also known as the character “Vampira”. Dovima Nurmi describes her drag as "dark", "slutty"...
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    filmed during both day and night in the same scene. The movie stars Maila Nurmi, in her Vampira persona, and Béla Lugosi, who died before it was completed...
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  • following over the years, much in the same vein as his make-up laden peers Maila Nurmi ("Vampira"), John Zacherle ("Zacherley"), and Cassandra Peterson ("Elvira")...
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  • to use a hostess. They asked 1950s' horror hostess Maila Nurmi to revive The Vampira Show. Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when...
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  • Wood's collaborators from the 1950s were featured in bit parts, including Maila Nurmi, Conrad Brooks, David Ward and Wood's widow Kathy O'Hara Wood. In the...
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    University Danielle Nicolet, actress Don Novello, actor and comedian Maila Nurmi, Hollywood actress Charles F. Osborn, Wisconsin politician, lawyer and...
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    film. Criswell's undead consort, Black Ghoul, was allegedly written for Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, but was instead played by Fawn Silver, who wore a black...
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    several personal appearances by Lugosi and his co-stars, as well as Maila Nurmi (TV's horror host "Vampira"). To Lugosi's disappointment, however, his...
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    The Final Day features interviews with William Bast, Liz Sheridan and Maila Nurmi. Dean's bisexuality is openly discussed. Episode of Naked Hollywood television...
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  • inspired by actress Maila Nurmi, best known for her character Vampira, a camp icon of the 1950s. In 2014, entries were discovered in Nurmi's journals describing...
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    brief relationship with Maila Nurmi. According to the biography Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi, she became pregnant;...
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  • characters. The first (proto) television horror hostess was Vampira (Maila Nurmi). The Vampira Show featured mostly low budget suspense films, as few...
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    stars such as actresses Anna Easteden, Christine Lahti, Marian Nixon, Maila Nurmi, Pamela Anderson, Leslie Mann and Jessica Lange, actors Albert Salmi...
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  • film features early appearances by members of Los Lobos, Beck, Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Penelope Houston, Carel Struycken, K.K. Barrett, Mike Doud and El Duce...
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