Vampira in "The Haunted World of Ed Wood"

[@CarmenZynger]

Thanks for the great short Doc! Maila Nurmi was so talented. I wish she did more. Bless her heart.

[@user-xu4ow3bu6f]

She resisted doing it but those few short moments that she is on screen are some of the most memorable and classic moments in all the long history of cinema and she lives as a beautiful immortal for all time. wow

[@lampad4549]

That's probably the only movie you watched

[@1953beetle]

@@lampad4549 🤣👍

[@Sarah-gf9ed]

Maila was one of the greatest actresses of her time. Its a shame she didn't do more films and TV. I enjoy watching little clips of her. Read 2 books on her. What a fascinating, intelligent, articulate, stunningly beautiful and elegant lady! She was well ahead of her time. She was too good for Hollywood. RIP Beautiful Maila ❤️ ❤️

[@daviddoyle8956]

She didn't do anymore TV or films because she got black listed.

[@tuttt99]

RIP Maila Nurmi!

[@philomalley1510]

She's amazingggg. I love her. Kinda cool kinda tacky always fun 😁 😜 🦇

[@linscrattish2648]

Sharp as a tack!!! What a story.

[@CrypticusOfficial]

She is legend.

[@Sarah-gf9ed]

Vampira is the original and the best!! Others pale in comparison.

[@daviddoyle8956]

Elvira a cheap rip off. She did rip of Vampira's act.

[@NRobertAlexander]

It's fascinating how ahead of her time Maila really was. The oversexualized vamptress thing is entirely ripped off of her idea.

[@adrianlee3497]

Every time you watch Plan 9 it's 3am.

[@wilderlogan5879]

I know I'm kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good site to stream new movies online?

[@mungosmungo8694]

@@wilderlogan5879 tubi has it

[@stephysteph9538]

Jokes on you, it’s 3:31am!

[@andrewjones9991]

Talk about ahead of her time. If she was in her 20s in NYC or London in the 1970s and 80s she would for sure be the IT girl and have a lucrative career and we'd be looking a coffee table books dedicated to her and watching documentaries and bio pics about her.

[@axelazaryan]

FELIZ CENTENARIO MAILA VAMPIRA NURMI!! No te olvidaremos

[@brt5273]

Fascinating individual. I didn't find out until after she had died that toward the end of her life she was selling charming little hand painted metal boxes., that I would now sell my ....well...let's just say I WISH I could get hold of one ;D

[@veli-pekkakultanen2353]

She is amazing!

[@WarbirdPhoenix]

2:22 "You SOB I got you!" Oh yes Vampira,you got us alright. 😍 lol Most actress's would make love to the camera,but this one... Let's just say even the camera needed a smoke with the film crew after the shoot,pardon the puns. 😆 Gotta love people who are passionate at their job. 👍

[@pedrobakale7180]

beautiful

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

The stories Malia tells about the "iconic" Edward Wood are just pure gold. More real than the Tim Burton's movie

[@paulnadratowski3942]

Only one of her KABC show survives

[@davidpalmer7175]

Great Doc!

[@the_resourceful]

Other Horror Show hosts pale in her shadow. She was so goddamn cool.

[@culebrapeinado3530]

Mi reina!!!

[@unitedamericans8587]

There is a movie playing free on The KZbin NIGHTMARE IN ZOMBIE CITY that is in the Ed Wood Style!!!

[@phoenixwillington7329]

The re-enactments of the walk and scream was really bad 😂

[@WarbirdPhoenix]

You'd think it was Elvira doing a cameo and slipping in her signature silliness. ☺

[@johannahidalgo7738]

i love this movie!!!😉😅😅😅

[@followerofjulian1652]

She reminds me of a cellist in LA! 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheCorrectViews]

I wonder what the dialog was.

[@mungosmungo8694]

Probably as well written as the rest of the dialog

[@billchambersmarquez1964]

? 13.00 a week unemployment? Geez

[@pietrayday9915]

They weren't far past the dollar-a-day wage era, when a dollar went a long, long way by today's standard: the US dollar wouldn't decouple completely from the relative inflationary restraint of silver and gold backing until the '60s and '70s, when US coins ceased entirely to be made of silver and the gold standard was abolished, so one US dollar wasn't very far off from the spot price of an ounce of silver at that time. Prices were pretty stable for most of US history until then, when they started rising sharply. 13.00 was still a pretty dire way to live by Hollywood standards of the time, and you can bet Vampira would have jumped at the chance to get any work at all, but 13.00 back then could barely have been enough money to give her a halfway dignified roof over her head and a little food to eat, as long as she pinched pennies, clipped coupons, and got a little creative. For comparison, typical hourly wages in 1957 (when "Plan 9 from Outer Space" was filmed) looked something like: Waitress: 50 to 75 cents an hour (about $20 to $30 a week) Receptionist: $1.25 an hour (about $50 a week) About $80-$100 a week was considered a reasonably comfortable income for the average family, and men typically earned about $4700 a year (generally in dangerous manual labor and factory work), while working women typically earned about $3000 a year (generally as receptionists, caregivers, waitresses and cooks, etc. - even so, it's fair to point out that there was a definite wage gap, and Elvira no doubt made less money as an actress than her male counterparts, and her unemployment would, I assume, be adjusted accordingly so that she was given less unemployment insurance money than her male colleagues and counterparts!) A typical house in 1957 cost about $10,000, and a typical new car cost about $4,000. Rent ran about $90 a month (if Vampira didn't own her own home at the time, she would certainly have had to find some way to make ends meet, probably by sharing rent with someone, or otherwise living with someone else. Even in the 1950s, it was considered a little bit "sus" for a healthy single woman to live by herself and work, anyway, at least in "flyover country", but Hollywood might have been a little more "sophisticated"! Still, I'm betting Vampira would have struggled to rent a comfortable home in Hollywood by herself on $13 a week, and likely lived with someone else, or shared rent with a room mate.) Gasoline cost about 24 cents a gallon in 1957! A dozen eggs cost 28 cents, sliced bread was about 20 cents a loaf, bacon was about 60 cents a pound, and chicken was about 45 cents a pound. A US postage stamp cost only three cents. A Swanson frozen "TV dinner" cost a whopping 75 cents. An ice-cold Coca-Cola in the bottle still cost only 5 cents in the mid-late 1950s, and you could get a ham-and-cheese sandwich, Coca-Cola, and fresh slice of apple pie at your local diner for less than a dollar - dinner for you and your date and two movie tickets (about 60 cents each, if you were planning to watch "Plan 9 from Outer Space" down at the local drive-in) would have set you back about $3! You could mail-order a respectable middle-class lady's outfit from a Sears catalog for about $30 (the nylons, gloves, pillbox hat, and jewelry would set you back a lot more; in most of fly-over country, though, you'd probably save the money by buying the fabric and a pattern, and making your own dress....) An equally respectable men's 2-piece dacron/orlon wash-and-wear suit could be mail-ordered for about $35; a nicer 100% grey wool conservative suit would run about $50 - add another $10 for the more or less mandatory hat, if you really want to look smart! A new pair of sensible dress shoes (men's or women's) could be mail-ordered for about $10-$12. It's kind of difficult to imagine that $13 of unemployment insurance going very far at all, and no doubt it wouldn't have been a proper living wage by any stretch of imagination, but prices in the late '50s look absolutely surreal by today's standards!

[@chypyta]

She couldn't see herself on the movie Plan 9 until 1980 because on the premiere they made her go on the "stage" everytime she was on screen. OMG.

[@UnhappyMerchant]

That’s ridiculous

[@ceejay960]

She was so busy she never had a chance to go to a theatre and watch it??

[@pem1974]

@@ceejay960 she might not have had that strong of a desire to see it.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

The original Morticia!

[@carlacristina5613]

Morticia is old.

[@darreylhenderson702]

Morticia came first, in the original comics

[@carolnahigian9518]

she is an Original! what a HOOT!

[@pietrayday9915]

Morticia might well have come first in the comics, and certainly there would have been earlier precedents as well going back through the Universal monster movie era, into the the Grand Guignol and gothic literature eras, but I'd venture to say that Vampira pretty much set the template for every standard-issue goth girl to follow: the black-and-white makeup, the long black hair, the weird bondage getup, and all the rest. It would have been exactly the sort of horror-host kitsch that Vampira kickstarted which would get picked up in the '50s and '60s with the rock counter-culture that brought us the likes of "The Monster Mash" and Screaming Lord Sutch, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Arthur Brown, and so on, which in turn set the template for the goth, shock-rock, psychobilly and even heavy metal eras to follow (I can't imagine that Alice Cooper, KISS, King Diamond, and the like would have been the same if it hadn't been for Vampira doing what would become the rock-n-roll ghoul thing first!) So, Morticia was the original Morticia, but Vampira was the original goth girl, and way ahead of her time with it!

[@NaturalHealingAlchemist]

🕯 ♥️ 🧛🏻‍♀️

[@sneed3840]

I like how she laughs at Ed woods wanting to be orsen welles well ed wood is more famous and remembered than this d lister ever was

[@lafamiliahernandez3015]

Do we know who stole her memorabilia from her family yet? I know there is supposed to be a book, The Vampira Diaries coming out... but it was promised in print in fall 2019 with a gofundme raising almost $21,000..then a release in early 2021..seems like the project is having trouble. Is there any more reliable information on any of these topics? I'd like to buy Vampira merch ethically for once..meaning, in the name of (in)human decency, her FAMILY should profit. 🦇

[@dannystarling1]

There was a biography put out about 5 years ago called "Glamour Girl: The Pain and Passions of the Real Vampira" I haven't read it but I'd love to get a copy. It was written by her niece who found a bunch of her writings after her death. And besides her niece who she wasn't in touch with for decades before her death, she had no living family to speak of. She wasn't on good terms with them by any means and none approved of the life she had chosen for herself.

[@ghiblinerd6196]

The clap

[@clarkharvell5242]

She lived a hard life, but she was the original! She had a child with Orson Wells, but gave him up for adoption. RIP

[@darreylhenderson702]

I find it very hard to believe that Ed Wood was able to pay her $20,000, considering how low budget the production was. Lol

[@mungosmungo8694]

$200 In $1 bills

[@TANTRUMGASM]

pay attention next time

[@olftheterrible8450]

Orson Welles?!! Amazing he even knew who she was. Well, good looking women always find an open door, I suppose.

[@sampokemppainen3041]

You dumb fuck

[@kraken138]

@@sampokemppainen3041 Choke on a sausage, half-wit

[@NaaNaa111]

Orson Welles used her multiple Times because she was naive and on love. He got her pregnant and took off. The child went for adoption. Maybe good looking men always get away with their shitty actions.

[@nodnarb1520]

Back when women weren’t afraid to be feminine. They wore dresses, high hills and were stunning, and it was ok. They were so classy.

[@ftlmead2584]

Yes, so sad that dresses and high heels are illegal now. I was caught in a blue A-line and spent 8 months in the slammer.

[@tylermoses7829]

@@ftlmead2584 Wow...I am so sorry that happened to you. My friend had a similar episode happen to her. Her state still allows heels, as long as they are below 2", but she was caught wearing a 4" pump. Luckily she only received a citation since she was being escorted by her husband to her therapy session. I believe her conversion therapy is helping now...I would hate for her to be fined again, or even worse!

[@Foreveryoung23277]

@@ftlmead2584 where is this? I did not know high heels were illegal!

[@ftlmead2584]

@@Foreveryoung23277 Don't worry, I'm being sarcastic--the guy I replied to was acting as though women are never feminine these days and that's just ridiculous.

[@adrianaandrade6408]

Yeah! You forgot to mention the corsets. Breathing is so overrated nowadays...

[@jamesdoogan5528]

Why do they always end up nuts!

[@mikef2813]

Are they interviewing her in a meat locker? Turn the heat on fercrissakes.

[@darreylhenderson702]

I think that was deliberate to give it a spooky look, kind of like fog.