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Cassandra Gay Peterson [1] (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. ...
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) Heavy Metal Heaven (1989-1990) Elvira’s Thriller Theater (1989-1990) The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991) The Elvira ...
Thirty-five years ago, Peterson gave the world the platonic idea of an Elvira production — Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the feature film that she starred in and co-wrote with longtime ...
Forty years after creating Elvira, actress Cassandra Peterson published a tell-all memoir
Elvira is a female given name. It is believed to have first been recorded in medieval Spain , while other sources claim that it is likely of Germanic ( Gothic ) origin. In the Balkans , Elvira is popular among Bosniaks , Croats , and Slovenes in the former Yugoslav nations.
Elvira's father, circus artist Frederik Peter Jensen, was born in 1845 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His later destiny is unknown. At the time of Elvira Madigan's birth in 1867 her parents were not married to each other, and they toured with the French circus director Didier Gautier's "Cirque du Nord" in Germany and Denmark.
She went on to star in two feature films based around the character, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and 2001’s Elvira’s Haunted Hills, as well as multiple TV revivals of her original ...
Elvira Notari (born Elvira Coda; 10 February 1875 – 17 December 1946) was an Italian film director, one of the country's early and more prolific female filmmaker. She is credited as the first woman who made over 60 feature films and about 100 shorts and documentaries, quite often writing the subjects and screenplays, inspired by Naples. [ 1 ]