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The Vampira Show
''The Vampira Show'' was an American variety show hosted by Vampira. The series aired on the Los Angeles ABC television affiliate KABC-TV〔''Newsweek'' May 24, 1954, p. 84, TV-Radio "Vampire"〕〔''TV Guide'' July 17–23, 1954 p. 10, "Local Ghoul Makes Good"〕 from April 30, 1954, through April 2, 1955. The series was produced and created by Hunt Stromberg, Jr., and featured the Vampira character created by Maila Nurmi.
Though the show was unseen outside of the Los Angeles area, ''The Vampira Show'' has become a cult classic, spawning fan clubs the world over.
==Background==
The costume of Nurmi's Vampira character was inspired by the spooky ''The New Yorker'' cartoons of Charles Addams,〔''Newsweek'', May 24, 1954, p. 84. TV-Radio, "Vampire"〕 later adapted for the TV series ''The Addams Family'' in 1964. As Nurmi told ''Boxoffice'' in a 1994 interview, she had dressed as Addams' at-the-time nameless ghoul-woman to attend Lester Horton's annual Hollywood costume ball the Bal Caribe in 1953. Nurmi's ghoul woman beat out over 2,000 attendees to win the evening's prize for best costume where she drew the attention of Hunt Stromberg, Jr., a Hollywood producer. When Stromberg approached Nurmi about doing the character for television, Nurmi then re-imagined the character and costume as a buxom and glamorous single vampire instead of the mother of a family, and she named her creation Vampira. Nurmi told ''Boxoffice'' that her intention was to invent a unique creation of her own that was "campier and sexier" than the mute and flat-chested Addams character, in part to avoid plagiarizing Addams' intellectual property. Vampira was known to appear in broad daylight in full costume.〔''Life'', June 14, 1954 p. 107, Television, "Good Evening, I Am Vampira: A scary femme fatale peddles old horror films on TV"〕 Her husband Dean Riesner refused to appear in public with his wife in her Vampira costume.〔''Newsweek'', May 24, 1954, p. 84, TV-Radio "Vampire"〕
Vampira's personality was based on elements of several silent film actresses including Theda Bara and Gloria Swanson. The Vampira character was influenced by the Evil Queen from Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and from the Dragon Lady character in the ''Terry and the Pirates'' comic strip.〔''Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale'' by Pam Keesey, 1997 San Francisco, Cleis Press. p. 17, ISBN 1-57344-026-4.〕 The new costume was inspired by the artwork of John Willie featured in the fetish magazine ''Bizarre''.
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