SIGNED PHOTO "ELVIRA" MISTRESS OF DARKNESS" CASSANDRA PETERSON CERT LEGENDS for Sale

SIGNED PHOTO "ELVIRA" MISTRESS OF DARKNESS" CASSANDRA PETERSON CERT LEGENDS For Sale

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SIGNED PHOTO "ELVIRA" MISTRESS OF DARKNESS" CASSANDRA PETERSON CERT LEGENDS:
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HERE IS A BEAUTIFUL AND SEXY PHOTO OFTHE "MISTRESS OF THE DARK" ELVIRA
PHOTO DEPICTS HER LISTENING TO A SKELETONAND BEING SHOCKED AT WHAT HE IS SAYING
PHOTO IS HAND SIGNED WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITYFROM LEGENDS An EXCELLENT COMPANYWHO DOES MANY SIGNINGS WITH STARS
14 X 11 AND IN GOOD AUTOGRAPHS ARE HAND-SIGNED BY THE CELEBRITIESINDICATED. THERE ARE NO PRE-PRINTS OR AUTOPENS.
DEDICATED COLLECTOR'SWITH MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
SHIPPINGALL AUTOGRAPHS ARE PACKAGED WITH CARE.THEY ARE PLACED IN CARDBOARD AND MARKED "DO NOT BEND"
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT WITH ANY known as Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) 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, a weekly B movie presentation.
Peterson was born in Manhattan, Kansas.When she was a toddler, she was scalded by boiling water, and required skin grafts to over 35% of her body, spending three months in the hospital.
In a 2011 interview, Peterson stated that as a child, she was more fascinated by horror-themed toys while other girls were occupied with Barbie dolls.
In elementary school, she watched House on Haunted Hill, which was the first horror film she ever saw.During her teens, Peterson worked as a go-go dancer in a local gay bar.
Inspired by Ann-Margret in the film Viva Las Vegas, while on a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, during high school, she convinced her parents to let her see a live show whereupon she was noticed by the production staff; despite being only 17 years old, she convinced her parents to let her sign a contract.Immediately after graduating high school, she drove back to Las Vegas, where she became a showgirl in Frederic Apcar's pioneering "Vive Les Girls!" at The Dunes; here, she met Elvis Presley, whom she briefly dated.
She had a small role as a showgirl in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and played a topless dancer in the film The Working Girls (1974). She also purportedly posed for the cover of Tom Waits' album Small Change (1976); 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.
In the early 1970s, Peterson moved to Italy and became lead singer of the Italian rock bands Latins 80 and The Snails.Introduced to film director Federico Fellini by the producer of a documentary on Las Vegas showgirls in which she had appeared, she landed a small part in the film Roma (1972).Back in the United States, she toured nightclubs and discos around the country with a musical/comedy act, Mammas Boys.In 1979, she joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings, where she created a Valley girl-type character upon whom the Elvira persona is largely based.
During the 1970s, test shots of Peterson for Playboy were stolen and appeared in several men's magazine's without her permission.
In the late spring of 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 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 Vampira.
The station sent out a casting call, and Peterson auditioned and won the role. Producers left it up to her to create the role's image.She and her best friend, Robert Redding, came up with the sexy punk/vampire look after producers rejected her original idea to look like Sharon Tate's character in The Fearless Vampire Killers.
Shortly before the first taping, producers received a cease and desist letter from Nurmi.Besides the similarities in the format and costumes, Elvira's closing line for each show, wishing her audience "Unpleasant dreams", was notably similar to Vampira's closer: "Bad dreams, darlings..." uttered as she walked off down a misty corridor.The court ruled in favor of Peterson, holding that "'likeness' means actual representation of another person's appearance, and not simply close resemblance."Peterson claimed that Elvira was nothing like Vampira aside from the basic design of the black dress and black hair.Nurmi claimed that Vampira's image was based on Morticia Addams, a character in Charles Addams's cartoons that appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
Peterson's Elvira character rapidly gained notice with her tight-fitting, low-cut, cleavage-displaying black gown.Adopting the flippant tone of a California "Valley girl", she brought a satirical, sarcastic edge to her commentary.She reveled in dropping risqué double entendres and making frequent jokes about her cleavage.
In an AOL Entertainment News interview, Peterson said, "I figured out that Elvira is me when I was a teenager.She's a spastic girl.I just say what I feel and people seem to enjoy it."
Her campy humor, sex appeal, and good-natured self-mockery made her popular with late-night movie viewers and her popularity soared.SOURCE--WIKIPEDIA