RIP: Maila Nurmi, better known as Vampira

[laststeamtrain]

Maila Nurmi, better known as Vampira -- the world's first horror movie host -- has died of natural causes at the age of 86. The historic VAMPIRA SHOW ran on KABC-TV, Channel 7, in Los Angeles, Saturday nights at midnight, from 1954-55.

http://videowatchdog.blogspot.com/2008/01/vampira-too-cool-for-graveyard.html

http://blogging.la/archives/2008/01/rip_vampira_aka_maila_nurmi.phtml

[Bicoastal]

1. Nooooooooo....Good night, sweet witch...

...a flight of Count Floyds send thee to thy rest.

[jonnyblitz]

2. she was in ed wood movies.

I didn't know she was still alive.

[martymar64]

3. I saw her once at a horror convention in Hollywood

RIP Vampira. May winged bats take you to your eternal rest.

[LaStrega]

4. she was super genius n/t

[Tor_Hershman]

5. Saint Vampira

I never viewed the pic of Saint Vampira with the RIP coffin before, good pic, LastSteamTrain.

At The Church of Ed Wood
(Yes, it's a real legal chruch like, really.)
Vampira is a saint and here you may view a most cool animated gif starring the scream queen herself.

http://lessons.edwood.org/L28.html

Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor Hershman

[swimmernsecretsea]

6. I met her once outside an Ed Wood film festival in Santa Monica back in the 80's.

What a unique persona she created, and had fun with.