Elvira Tag

On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:34:45 AM, Mr. Kahfarknarkle said...

Bevis, I TAG you to write a post about your detailed thoughts oln Elvira, including; why she was so popular, a detailed review of her career, all the role's she's played, what she's doing now, and then tag another 20 people with the same thing



Thanks for this imaginative and ingenious tag, Mr K. I'm not sure how popular Elvira is with the international blogging community, but I'll see how I go ...

Born in September 1949 (eww - that makes her 56 years old!), Cassandra Peterson was never much into horror films as a child.* However, upon reaching her 23rd year, she landed the much-admir'd role of 'Uncredited' in Roma.

Her performance was so amazing that it took two full years for Hollywood to recover and offer her the role of 'Katya' in The Working Girls. This film is now subtitled (in a really tasteful way) 'Elvira Naked' in video stores, due to Katya's brief* striptease. What class.

A string of memorable roles followed, such as 'Girl with Lugs', 'O'Malley's Girl', 'Busty Nurse', 'Neighbor' (sic), 'Dinner Party Guest' and 'Hostage'. In 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, she featured as 'Biker Mama'.

However, appearances on many TV shows such as Happy Days, CHiPS, Fantasy Island, Saturday Night Live, The Arsenio Hall Show, St Elsewhere, thirtysomething, Nash Bridges, The Fall Guy, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Murder She Wrote* and The Richard Simmons Show (on most of which she appeared as Elvira) soon followed. The character Elvira, "Mistress of the Dark", was a supposedly vampiresque woman of sin and shame (although she was always remarkably PG-rated, with only innuendo and bad agents holding her back) who ran her own late night cheap black and white horror movie show on cable TV.

She enjoyed some measure of success in the 1980s*, culminating in a 1988 feature-length film, imaginatively titled Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

There were two main reasons for her popularity:




Although the character will never die (and has never aged either), her official website certainly has. Be sure to check out the calendars you can buy in the Merchandise section.

Since the early nineties, Elvira has barely been seen in the media (with the odd exception such as The Tony Danza Show, although this barely counts as no one watches it). However, she regularly attends signings and conventions, amazing her fans by her once-natural red hair, her reasonably-aged features, and her bosoms hanging down around her knees.

Congratulations to Riss and later Millwood for correctly identifying yesterday's Mystery Woman.

I now tag every single one of you reading this to do the same thing I've done with this Elvira tag.




* I don't know if this is true.



PS - Later today, I will finally do it. Stay tuned.


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