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Halloween - Vampira vs Elvira - "Mistresses of the Dark: The Gothic Grudge Match That Defined Horror Hosting"
January 2008: Maila Nurmi dies alone and penniless in her Hollywood apartment, three decades after creating Vampira, the original gothic horror hostess. Meanwhile, Cassandra Peterson lives in luxury built on Elvira, the character Nurmi swore was stolen from her. From the 1954 birth of sexy horror hosting to the brutal 1991 lawsuit that bankrupted the originator while enriching the imitator, Marcus Reid uncovers television's darkest plagiarism battle. Featuring Nurmi's groundbreaking fusion of sex and death that shocked 1950s America, Peterson's convenient claims of ignorance, and the…
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