THE DISNEY / VAMPIRA CONNECTION
We've all heard the stories about Bela Lugosi coming in for FANTASIA, but he isn't the only Horror personality to do some work for the Mouse House.I figured these being Horror boards and all, you'd be...
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davlghry wrote: Thanks fo the info. I'm looking forward to the book. Any idea when it will be out? Not sure when it will be out. A mountain of paperwork is still being gone through (Maila saved...
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I will say that some details of her publicly known background (her earliest origins) were the inventions of a press agent. Reminds me of when one of the Maynards died. (Can't recall if it was Ken or...
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I just stumbled onto this article. Hope someone will find it interesting. http://www.salon.com/2014/02/15/the_real_maleficent_the_surprising_human_face_behind_the_sleeping_beauty_villain/
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Kinda wary about all this. The following "evidence" from Ms. Nurmi's "datebook" are of interest...<<<Nov. 16 DISNEY WARDROBE (for “Sleeping Beauty” “Maleficent”)Nov. 17: Droopert Day...
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davlghry wrote:Kinda wary about all this. The following "evidence" from Ms. Nurmi's "datebook" are of interest...<<<Nov. 16 DISNEY WARDROBE (for “Sleeping Beauty” “Maleficent”)Nov. 17:...
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GRAVE ROBBERS FROM OUTER SPACE is the title on the script, its title in all 1956 press items that I've seen, its title at its March 1957 preview, etc., etc., etc. IMHO, any 1956 note calling it PLAN 9...
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Hi Guys --I'm Ray aka R. H. Greene and I actually wrote the SALON article. Respectfully, Disney has actually affirmed the authenticity of its central claim, which is that Maila Nurmi physically...
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Ray Greene wrote:Hi Guys --I'm Ray aka R. H. Greene and I actually wrote the SALON article. Respectfully, Disney has actually affirmed the authenticity of its central claim, which is that Maila Nurmi...
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re" "friends to find the truth" Believe me, I know it and I love you guys for it. This is the most interesting and thought provoking site for anything to do with the topic of Maila and Vampira...
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Ray Greene wrote:And of course, Disney confirmed the only entries that needed additional outside sourcing when they confirmed her modelling sessions as Maleficent, which again is the big takeaway...
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Ray, this is what I found in your Salon article:<< A thorough search of Lavin’s records turned up no mention of Maila Nurmi or Vampira. But fortunately for animation and pop culture history,...
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I gotta admit, I never followed the tale of Bela Lugosi supposedly modeling for a demon in FANTASIA; I don't know if what he did on camera (if he did anything) affected the look of that demon and/or...
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Yes. But we don't hold it against you, Tom. Why? Because we LIKE you!
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Not so much an Excitement gene as a New Nugget gene. Some people on this board have passed the midway point in their lives (I know I have), and we've been immersed in this stuff for decades, and it's...
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I think there's another value to this kind of research... to find out if new information is true or not. After celebrities pass away and are no longer alive to validate or refute, all kinds of...
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If Vampira did model for SLEEPING BEAUTY and the moviemakers got some use out of that footage, that IS a fun tidbit of trivia for us Monster Kids to add to our collective knowledge. But what does this...
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Vampira to VARIETY's Army Archerd regarding her appearance on a 1954 THE RED SKELTON SHOW (same episode as Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr.): Archerd wrote, "'I was astonishingly...
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<< Will it prompt the sale of even one additional copy of the next home video release? << They got my BAMBI money when it was revealed the Grandson of Frankenstein was in there (thanx,...
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re: "But that (a one-year horror hostess gig on a local TV station, 60 years ago) and her 60 seconds or so of PLAN 9 footage are where her claims to fame start and stop." No sign of the Skelton show...
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