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Cassandra Gay Peterson [1] is an American actress 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 in her stage persona as Elvira, hosting Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly B movie presentation.
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by James Signorelli, starring Cassandra Peterson as eccentric horror host Elvira. The film's screenplay, written by Peterson, John Paragon, and Sam Egan, follows Elvira inheriting a house nestled in the heart of an overtly prudish community.
- Cassandra Peterson saw her first horror movie—William Castle’s House On Haunted Hill—when she was just a kid. In an interview for David Weiner’s 2019 documentary In Search of Darkness, Peterson recalled seeing the 1959 Vincent Price shocker when she was very young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, and being “gobsmacked.”
- Cassandra Peterson credits a terrible childhood injury with setting her on the path to creating Elvira. Peterson suffered horrific, near-fatal third degrees burns after overturning a pot of boiling water when she was 18 months old.
- Cassandra Peterson became a Las Vegas showgirl when she was just 17 years old. When Peterson was a teenager, one of her idols was Ann-Margret, the Swedish-American singer, dancer, and actress who co-starred with Elvis Presley in 1964’s Viva Las Vegas.
- Cassandra Peterson was an extra in a James Bond movie. When she was working as a dancer with Vive Les Girls, Peterson and several of her colleagues served as extras in the 1971 James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Sep 30, 1988 · Elvira, the famous horror hostess, inherits a mansion and a spell book from her great-aunt and faces an evil warlock in a small town. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out more about this 1988 PG-13 film.
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- Comedy, Horror
- James Signorelli
- 1988-09-30
Sep 24, 2021 · The woman behind the iconic character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Cassandra Peterson exclusively sits down for the first interview since revealing a 19-year relationship with a woman.
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- 119K
- Tamron Hall Show
Elvira was the first horror host ever to be syndicated nationally and has emerged as one of today’s most original and outrageous pop culture icons. Elvira’s reign as ‘ Queen of Halloween ’ has spanned more than three decades and includes an IMAX movie, music CDs, books and more than a thousand licensed products.
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