Comments on: It is even more of a shock when Death, the Proud Brother, comes suddenly without warning.

It is even more of a shock when Death, the Proud Brother, comes suddenly without warning.

Astro Zombie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:38:45 -0800

Vampira, RIP. Maila Nurmi, movie star and horror movie host, friend to James Dean, and documentary subject, has passed away.

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:45:14 -0800

aww

By: Item

Item — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:47:21 -0800

That's very much some sad news. Let the dots begin.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:52:39 -0800

She had appeared in a show with Mae West when she was younger, and disliked the experience. Criswell, in the meanwhile, was close friends with Mae West, and she would often invite him over for home-cooked meals. If Criswell was with Vampira, he would demur, and Mae West would simply put the food in tin foil and have her driver deliver it. So Criswell and Vampira would watch television together and eat Mae West's food. I love Hollywood stories like that.

By: sonic meat machine

sonic meat machine — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:06:10 -0800

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:10:53 -0800

that sucks .

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:19:33 -0800

Huh. I never knew the story about the Vampira/Elvira feud/lawsuit/whateveritwas, although I was aware there was Vampira before there was Elvira. Quite an interesting story, and life. .

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:33:23 -0800

By: cazoo

cazoo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:28 -0800

...come a little bit closer

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:47:52 -0800

I will take this occasion to further urge all y'all DC-area MeFites to join me for a presentation of one of Vampira's greatest roles. It really is the right thing to do.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:48:04 -0800

. Oh man, one of my older sisters used to LOVE her. She's a born again Christian now though so I'm not supposed to remember she used to idolize a vampiress.

By: dances_with_sneetches

dances_with_sneetches — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:56:37 -0800

I always considered her black-listing as the height of McCarthy silliness.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:01:37 -0800

More proof of a godless world: Vampira dies yet Mickey Rooney continues to outlive everyone! LULZ

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:07:35 -0800

Are we sure?

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:08:04 -0800

_+_+__+_

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:39:02 -0800

aww, There goes the Glamour Ghoul. What a character. Q: How did the glamorous ghoul earn her living? A: She was a cover ghoul. She created a wonderful version of Morticia. Great YouTube interview of her, just six months ago, talking about how she became Vampira. So interesting. Incredible she didn't think of herself as beautiful, when she was obviously stunning. Here mischievously talking about her affair with Orson Welles. You go ghoul!

By: baphomet

baphomet — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:49:17 -0800

Hey Black dress moves in a blue movie Graverobbers from outer space Your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm Tremble so wicked Two inch nails Micro waist With a pale white feline face Inclination eyebrows to there Mistress to the horror kid Cemetery of the white love ghoul, well Take off your shabby dress Come and lay beside me Come a little bit closer Come a little bit closer Come a little bit closer Come a little bit closer to this Vampira, Vampira, Vampira Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Misfits - Vampira

By: brujita

brujita — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:54:39 -0800

She claimed she was related to an Olympic champion.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:55:01 -0800

it's already been said but it's the only correct response : "The grief of his wife's death became greater and greater agony. The home they had so long shared together became a tomb. A sweet memory of her joyous living. The sky, to which she had once looked, was now only a covering for her dead body. The ever-beautiful flowers she had planted with her own hand became nothing more than the lost roses of her cheeks. Confused by his great loss, the old man left that home, never to return again." from plan nine from outer space.

By: mike3k

mike3k — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:11:45 -0800

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:31:41 -0800

So many youthful crushes are indebted to this woman.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:45:42 -0800

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:46:28 -0800

"That's the fifth siren in the last hour." "Oh, something's happened down at the cemetery." —Plan 9 from Outer Space Sorry to hear about the (final?) demise of Vampira. Thanks for that interview link, nicky; it's interesting how — starting at a very young age, apparently — she developed her image as a combination of the Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates, the wicked queen from Snow White, and Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard. Hard for us today to imagine the impact a 'creature' like that would have had on people back in the Eisenhower 1950s. I finally watched Plan 9 online just last week (gotta do something to get through the winter), and found it bad, of course, but not that bad. I've seen worse, as they say. And the late, great Vampira truly was a glamour ghoul.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:04:35 -0800

She's not really dead, she's just got to hold a shawl in front of her face for the rest of her scenes.

By: treepour

treepour — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:38:12 -0800

By: Jilder

Jilder — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:07:10 -0800

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:25:51 -0800

Oh, let's not be so naive here.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:45:29 -0800

By: lapolla

lapolla — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:14:37 -0800

vampira is dead. long live vampira!

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:27:40 -0800

The period I'm about to type is different. Here it is that small point of light left in the middle of the tube when you turn off an old black and white television, after you've snuck down to watch B-grade horror movies late at night. RIP .

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:23:06 -0800

Oddio Overplay's Ghouls With Attitude Compilation. Track #4, disc 1, Bobby Bare's "Vampira"

By: doctorschlock

doctorschlock — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:02:37 -0800

Morticia and Vampira......my kind of women....and I don't me dead women either.

By: adustum

adustum — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:04:16 -0800

Stupid question: What does the . denote?

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:17:53 -0800

I wonder if Elvira will plagiarize her obituary too. ;-) .

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:04:22 -0800

People with money who consider themselves fans of Vampira should seriously consider donating to Much Love Animal Rescue, or you can go to your own local animal adoption agency, be a new home for a little doggy, and think kindly of Ms Nurmi while you do it. However, I don't recommend naming the dog "Vampira" cuz that's just cruel and unusual. Ms. Nurmi may have shuffled off this mortal coil, but she embodied a persona that's rather eternal. Vampiras never die... well, actually, Vampiras are already dead! I don't think 'undead' is particularly right. In light of zombie movies that has such bad connotations today. I like to think of Vampira as 'deadless' which may not be a word but I'm making it one. "Funeral arrangements are pending due to a search for relatives, but a memorial service will be held in Los Angeles in the near future." Pending? That's messed up right there. Ms. Nurmi was a sweet lady with a big heart. She should get a decent send-off. They gave Ronald Reagan like a week of television coverage when he died, which I found to be offensive and superfluous and all kinds of negative things. When she wanted to be, Ms. Nurmi was loud and broad and she had a way of being both respectable and creepy. If anyone deserves an outlandish funeral procession and burial ritual, it's Vampira. Ms Nurmi might get five seconds mention on ET but I doubt it. That's just wrong? Where's the cross-dressing community? Shouldn't they stand up in a moment like this? Shouldn't the Hell's Angels step in as her pallbearers? I don't believe Cassandra Patterson plagiarized, but I would agree she owes a lot to Nurmi's portrayal of a timeless and ageless personification of ...whatever it is the Elviras and Morticias and Vampiras of this world personify. Patterson should be leading the charge of how to handle Ms. Nurmi's remains if there's no blood relative to step in. Last year, Peterson was looking for ladies to bear her torch for when it's her turn to go, but Elvira should settle accounts with her predecessor too.