Vampira: An Appreciation of the Undersung Proto-Goth Goddess Inline

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    15 May 1954, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Original caption: 5/15/1954-Hollywood, CA- Picture shows actress, Maila Nurmi as, "Vampira", the most terrifying television queen in Hollywood with long purple fingernails, a stringy black wig and four bloody scratches just above her plunging neckline admits she is only a plain little knockout of a girl underneath the weird get-up. This lapland beauty hosts a nightime horror TV show. Note: Nurmi also starred in the 1958 Ed Wood Jr. film "Plan 9 From Outer Space". --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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    Photo: Dennis Stock / Courtesy of _Life_e Magazine, June, 1954
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    Photo: Photofest
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    Photo: Courtesy of KABC-TV
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    Photo: Getty Images
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