DRACULINDA THE GHOUL-GIRL – Liz Herring, the Assistant Program Director at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC put her theater experience to good use as North and South Carolina’s Movie Hostess Draculinda the Ghoul-Girl. Draculinda hosted films on Nightmare, which aired Saturday nights at 11:00pm.
Nightmare ran from September 12th, 1959 to at least August 20th, 1960. Liz Herring stated that she patterned the character on the ghoulish woman in Charles Addams cartoons; the one who would be given the name Morticia when The Addams Family debuted in 1964.
This Movie Host show would open with thunder and lightning as well as screams and the sound of a werewolf howling. Fake blood would drip down the screen. That would be followed by the appearance of Draculinda, seated on a stool with a spotlight on her.
After welcoming viewers to Nightmare, Draculinda would do a comedic monologue written by WRAL-TV’s Diane Beddell and Bill Ray. The monologues would often target political figures in the Carolinas. Other bits of business included ghoulish jokes like Draculinda hawking her book 1,000 Ways to Bitter Serve Your Fellow Man. Continue reading
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