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. 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. Nurmi died Thursday at her Hollywood home, Los ...

“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.” ...

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 ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being the first is not always a good thing. Many ground breaking artists who introduce something new into the cultural mix do not always fare well after they have changed the rules and the game. Take, ...

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 ...