Choice, leggy 10x8-inch black and white portrait in her prime, boldly signed in silver marker in her later years, using both her acting and real names. The alter ego of Finnish-American actress Maila Nurmi was Vampira, the black-clad, buxom, wasp-waisted horror hostess of the 1950s who made a handful of film appearances, perhaps most memorably in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).

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