萬皮拉 Vampira

The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, was actually born Maila Syrj?niemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Petsamo, Finland. Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo Nurmi. Maila arrived in the United States with her family as a baby and lived a rather nomadic existence at first as her father was a writer who lectured on temperance.