Maila Nurmi (Vampira)

Finnish-born actress and beauty pageant contestant, she was the world's first TV Horror Hostess, introducing horror films on KABC and KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. Nurmi created the Vampira persona herself, basing her costume on a Chas. Addams cartoon character. Vampira appears in Plan 9 From Outer Space , as the menacing Vampire Girl, unforgettably roaming graveyards with zombie Tor Johnson. Her other credits include Broadway's Catherine Was Great, with Mae West, and Sex Kittens Go to College (1960).