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9 de jun. de 2023 · Maila Nurmi, known primarily as Vampira, the original horror hostess of the 1950s, was a complicated, enigmatic, and profound woman. Amid 1950s-era misogyny, Vampira miraculously emerged among the smiling white housewives that plastered homemaking magazines and the objectified, doe-eyed young women in gentlemen’s magazines such as Playboy .
In 1954, a 31-year old former model, nightclub coat-check attendant and necktie painter named Maila Nurmi attended a Hollywood party with her husband, actor-writer Dean Riesner. She made her own vampire costume, inspired by the cartoons of Charles Addams, out of fabric scraps. She must have cut quite a profile because months later another attendee …
12 de ene. de 2021 · Maila Nurmi hanging from her feet as Vampira in a photo from the biography “Glamour Ghoul.” (Feral House) She was “the first Goth,” says Sandra Niemi, Nurmi’s niece and now her biographer.
3 de nov. de 2019 · To mark the Halloween season, film and culture writer Sabina Stent looks back on Dennis Stock’s photographs of one of America’s first horror heroines – Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira.. As a child, Maila Nurmi was not invited to Halloween parties. She considered herself awkward and gangly, but found solace and escape in fantasy novels and comic books, what she described as “the world of the ...
11 de mar. de 2021 · To say Maila Nurmi’s Vampira is iconic underscores the electric force of the visual image. Niemi’s biography takes readers on a thorough tour of how the clothing, hair, makeup—the whole persona—came to be. From early in Nurmi’s life, she practiced a kind of DIY art life.
29 de oct. de 2015 · Apart from that big-screen homage, though, time hasn’t exactly been kind to the memory of Vampira, née Maila Nurmi from Finland. When she shuffled off this mortal coil in 2008, it was in ...
20 de mar. de 2017 · Maila Nurmi "Vampira"'s segments in "The Haunted World of Ed Wood". This interview is significant in that it's one of the most detailed accounts about the c...
