''Vampira'' (1954-1955)

By Crusader1307

While perhaps ''unknown'' today, Maila Nurmi would create a ''campy'' (very) Television personality in the 1950s known as ''Vampira''. Sultry (at least for The '50s), Nurmi was a ''B'' and ''C''-Movie Star, used heavily by iconic and quirky Film Director Edward Woods (as a ''Female Vampire'', of course). When the rise of Television Horror Films led to ''Creature Features'' on Friday Nights and Saturday afternoons – most local American Television Station scrambled to recruit such costumed ''Ghouls'' to Host the Programs. ''Vampira'' was the only Female Host, and the stuff of many young boys ''dream''. Tight Black Dress with long hair and pale white skin, Vampira would be ''copied'' by The Addams Family TV Series in 1965 (''Morticia Addams) and several other well known possible ''rip offs''. Often compared to the much later similar ''Elvira'' Television character (of which She was based in truth and a later Lawsuit filed as well), Her Show ran from 1954 to 1955 on Los Angeles, California Television. Vampira is still a fixture in camp 1950s Horror. Nurmi passed away in 2008.