Talk:Maila Nurmi

message: The attack on Maila Nurmi which used to read June 20, 1955 has been changed to the correct date of January 8, 1956. The citation to David Skal's book that was there has been removed. Unfortunately, Skal got the date wrong and it has been mis-stated repeatedly ever since.
Contemporary news articles on the attack date it as occurring on January 8, and photos of Nurmi with bruises from the attack are also all dated January 8, 1956. One of those photos can be found under the correct date in the Corbis archive here:
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?id=U1302227INP&tab=details&caller=search  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.230.67.96 (talk) 20:12, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Although you changed the date and removed the Skal citation on March 23, 2011, a look at the View History reveals your changes were reverted on the same day by "TheRealFennShysa." Your date change was likely reverted due to the absence of any type of reference. A sourced edit is always going to trump an unsourced edit; even if the source contains inaccurate information. The link you've provided here that supposedly shows a bruised Maila Nurmi actually shows Bigfoot, which doesn't lend much support to your case! Or are you suggesting that Bigfoot attacked Vampira? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.165.13 (talk) 15:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

text: I have a copy of the newspaper clipping from Jan 8, 1956. My father was one of the detectives on the case. 100.4.144.169 (talk) 15:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

text: It happened in NYC. I have the newspaper clipping explaining this. It is her picture not Bigfoot (😂). My father was one of the NYPD Detectives assigned to the case. Arrested Mr. Barber the next morning. 100.4.144.169 (talk) 15:28, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal Life

message: The article states that Maila Nurmi "is the niece of famed Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi". I think this is actually Maila Nurmi's own invention. I have found no proof of my claim, since all biographies seem to mention the relationship as a fact, but I've been told that Vampira (born Syrjäniemi) took the surname Nurmi only because it's easier, and possibly also to gain some fame at the expense of Paavo Nurmi, who was extremely famous in the United States at that time. (Maila Nurmi happens to be my grandgrandfather's brother's daughter. Her father was Onni Syrjäniemi, but I should know something about her mother to be sure.) -Easlak 09:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fascinating... but I have no source to confirm. Pepso 16:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

text: It is erroneous to say "the case was decided" if you're talking about the aspect of the case that deals with Elvira's original producers developing a new Vampira series with Nurmi, Nurmi's departure over creative differences, and the subsequent creation of Elvira by the same producers. If you read the court's findings, this claim was dismissed on a technicality. It was a trademark infringement charge, and needed to be refiled in a federal court, rather than the local one where it had originally been filed. Nurmi was unable to pursue this claim for financial reasons. Speculating that the lawyers would have pursued it pro bono anyhow assumes a great deal that isn't in the record, not the least of which is that Nurmi would have wanted to continue the case with the legal team that misfiled her claim in the first place.     —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.230.67.96 (talk) 20:01, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Indeed, the decision for the case can be found online. Even if she did run out of money, I doubt that a law firm would have dropped such a potentially lucrative case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RFoglio (talk • contribs) 04:28, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nurmi name

message: I had been under the imprression Vampira made her friendship with James Dean out to be much more than it was after his death. Citation on his quote about her?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.226.121.24 (talk) 23:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article quoted James Dean as saying he had a "knowledge of satanic forces" and was curious to see if Nurmi was "obsessed with such a force." The only reference citation for this quote was a website article about Dean that lists no references; so the quote had no definitive citation. I have edited this to not only include the actual quote in its entirety, but also its original source. Cyoso (talk) 00:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vampira and James Dean 

message: As far as I know there is no surviving footage of The Vampira Show. The cited kinoscope is an advert for the station.  MartinSFSA (talk) 06:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you Mr. Anonymous, but no. It is not an episode of The Vampira Show, it is a re-recording of that date's script. I don't see how you can say it's not an advert; it was filmed, not broadcast, with the intention of promoting the station's advertising potential. MartinSFSA (talk) 04:48, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surviving footage 

message: Is that picture not copyrighted? brob (talk) 10:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I notice that the infobox states she was married to Dean Riesner from 1949-2002, and Fabrizio Mioni from 1961-?.  Presumably she was not engaged in polygamy; does anyone have more data on this?DigiFluid (talk) 05:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages 

message: I just put the following under "In Popular Culture":
The cartoon series, Drak Pack included a vampiress named Vampira, who seems to have been drawn to look like Maila Nurmi's Vampira.
I wasn't sure if it was okay, given that it's an opinion (hence "seems"), but considering that the two characters look alike, and had the same name, I thought it was at least worth a mention.MysticOrbot (talk) 17:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vampira on Drak Pack? 

message: It's hard to tell from this bio how long her show was on TV. Was it only two seasons, each on a different local station? I thought she had a longer TV career than this. Newjerseyliz (talk) 21:42, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her TV show 

message: According to the Wikipedia article on Edward D. Wood Jr., and including a book citation, Nurmi declined an invitation to appear in one of Wood's early-1970s sexploitation films, claiming she was recovering from a stroke. This article makes no mention of such an event. Did Nurmi have a stroke in the early 1970s, or was she just making up a story to avoid being in the movie? 68.147.116.14 (talk) 03:53, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stroke? 

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message: Maila Nurmi was Finnish and was born in Petsamo, Finland. Mizzax (talk) 15:49, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  She was Finnish not American