This week the ZRC salutes one of our favorite zombies, Vampira! Maila Nurmi (whose stage name is Vampira) was a television horror show host in the early 1950s for a Los Angeles ABC affiliate. Her zombie claim to fame came in 1959, when she starred in Ed Wood’s seminal Plan 9 from Outer Space as one of the walking dead.

Other amazing facts about Vampira:

• She dated James Dean
• Unsuccessfully sued Elvira over likeness rights
• Sang in a punk band called “Vampira and Satan’s Cheerleaders”
• Nominated for an emmy award for “Most Outstanding Female Personality”

Vampira now lives in North Hollywood and runs a small antique shop called Vampira’s Attic. She runs a website of the same name where you can purchase autographed photos. You can watch some clips of Vampira on several video clips she’s uploaded to YouTube.

With that, we leave you with a few lines from the Misfits‘ song “Vampira”:

“Black dress moves in a blue movie
Graverobbers from outer space
Well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm
Tremble so wickedTwo inch nails
Micro waist
With a pale white feline face
Inclination eyebrows to there

Mistress to the horror kid
Cemetary of the white love ghoul, well
Take off your shabby dress
Come and lay beside me”

Vampira, the ZRC salutes you!

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