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Ironically, it became the film for which she is best remembered.
Nurmi true to character vanished into the night, and Stromberg spent months tracking her down. Vampire Rave is the social networking website for vampires and goths. Hoping to grab a little attention, she disguised herself as Charles Addams's yet-unnamed New Yorker Magazine ghoulishly-macabre cartoon character (eventually to be named Morticia), a dark-haired, wasp-waisted character married to Addams's pen & ink morbid male (Gomez in later drawings), and attended Lester Horton's annual Bal Caribe Masquerade in Hollywood where indeed she not only took First Prize, but was spotted by Television entrepreneur/impressario Hunt Stromberg Jr. (5/23/23-11/25/86). Her legacy today rests with a brief but memorable silent cameo as the raised-from-the-dead wife of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood's cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959); she also appeared in such films as Too Much, Too Soon (Warner Bros. - 1958), The Beat Generation (MGM - 1959), Sex Kittens Go To College (Allied Artists - 1960), The Magic Sword (United Artists - 1962), and I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (Cinequanon Pictures International - 1998). Reports and tips from RoadsideAmerica.com visitors and Roadside America.In the northwest corner, not quite all the way west.Theodore "Fodor" Glava died of flu when he was 43. If you're looking for a darker gothic or vampire social network, you've found it. In 1955 she was nominated for an Emmy as "Most Outstanding Female Personality" and made "Who's Who in America." We are a home for real vampires around the globe. In 1956 Nurmi met producer-director-writer Edward D. Wood Jr. and he put her into his film Plan 9 From Outer Space. Vampire Grave This is in response to the "vampire grave" being a new addition to the Lafayette Cemetery.
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Nurmi true to character vanished into the night, and Stromberg spent months tracking her down. I am 33 years old and I first heard about it when I was 12. In the 1950s she created the character of Vampira (reportedly named by her then-husband Dean Riesner, a screenwriter who, the year before, had penned MESA OF LOST WOMEN). Other local stations around the country had begun hiring hosts for their showings of these and other movies, and Stromberg thought that the wittily provocative, eerily sexy Nurmi as Vampira, would set his station apart from any conceivable competition.
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I was born in Lafayette in 1965, and my mother attended the Church of the Nazarene, which used to be on Roosevelt Street I believe. [35] She was buried in the Griffith Lawn section of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery .
Popular for both films and as a television horror hostess, the Vampira character would set the standard for an entire legion of horror hostesses, actresses, and cartoon characters to follow. Grave of Vampira at Hollywood Forever On January 10, 2008, Nurmi died of natural causes at her home in Hollywood, aged 85. Her archetypal host character was well known all over the country when Screen Gems' SHOCK!