Today would have marked the 92nd birthday of Maila Nurmi, the actress more commonly known for the character Vampira. As Vampira, Nurmi became one of the first horror hosts, delivering her sultra, disaffected schtick on Los Angeles's Channel 7 in 1954, a fame that led her to appearing in Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Here she is, out of Vampira costume, reciting a beat poem in Albert Zugsmith's THE BEAT GENERATION, an entertainingly dismal attempt to cash in on beatnik culture. The shirtless man behind her seems entranced, anyway.
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