Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson is an American actress, writer and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV wearing a revealing, black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of ElVira’s Movie Macabre.
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Cassandra Peterson is an American actress, writer and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV wearing a revealing, black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of ElVira’s Movie Macabre. In the early 1970s, Peterson moved to Italy and became lead singer of the Italian rock bands Latins 80 and The Snails. She had a small role as a showgirl in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever and played a topless dancer in the film The Working Girls. She also purportedly posed for the cover of Tom Waits’ album Small Change ; Peterson has since described it as \”a giant mystery\” claiming that while she has no memory of the event, the picture looks enough like her that she feels \”pretty sure\” it is her. Peterson auditioned for the role of Ginger Grant for the third Gilligan’s Island television movie in 1981, shortly before she was offered her horror host position. In 1979, she joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings, where she created a Valley girl-type character upon whom the Elv Kira persona is largely based.
In 1981, six years after the death of Larry Vincent, who starred as host Sinister Seymour of a Los Angeles weekend horror show called Fright Night, show producers began to bring the show back. The producers decided to use a female host. They asked 1950s horror show hostess Maila Nurmi to revive The Vampira Show. Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when the producers would not hire Lola Falana to play Vampsira. The station sent out a casting call, and Peterson auditioning and won the role. She and her best friend, Robert Redding, came up with the sexy punkvampire look after producers rejected her original idea to look like Sharon Tate’s character in The Fearless Vampire Killers. The court ruled in favor of Peterson’s appearance, holding that ‘likeness’ means not simply close, but actual representation of a person, not simply a basic resemblance to another person. In another appearance, she brought a satirical, sarcastic edge to her satirical, double entendre commentary. She reveled in dropping risqué jokes about cleavage and making frequent cleavage jokes about her tight-cut, low-cut black gown’s Adopting Adopts.
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