The car twice has been on exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The 1988 movie also made it possible for the couple to buy a 1958 Thunderbird, which they call a “macabre mobile.” The black convertible has a silver hood ornament resembling Elvira and grill ornaments that look like eyeballs with claws. The couple bought the building with profits from the first Elvira movie, “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.” In making their current home less Elvira-like, they put many of their products in storage and moved others, along with some Elvira memorabilia, to Pierson’s office in a five-unit, 1936 apartment building in Hollywood.

The couple still have an Elvira pinball machine in their den, and other Elvira influences such as a Rottweiler named Mina for a character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula,” and three cats: Renfield, from “Dracula,” and Jekyll and Hyde, from the 1886 tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Strange Case of Dr.

Pierson, a former professional musician, is a guitarist. Among the newest are an Elvira slot machine and an Elvira electric guitar. Pierson and Peterson then marketed and licensed Elvira for more than 350 products-”from perfume to beer,” he said. Elsewhere.” She married Pierson 21 years ago and shortly after became a horror-movie host on the former KHJ-TV in Los Angeles.Įlvira was born, and through the TV show “Movie Macabre” she became nationally syndicated as a horror-film host in 1983, with her show playing in syndication until 1989. While in Italy, she joined a rock band for about a year as its lead singer and had a part in the 1972 movie “Fellini’s Roma.”Īfter she left Italy, she became a member of the L.A.-based comedy group the Groundlings and appeared in supporting roles on such series as “Happy Days” and “St. Prior to moving to Italy, she performed as one of the youngest showgirls in Las Vegas. Peterson learned to cook in Italy, where she lived after graduating from high school in Colorado. So it’s not opulent, but it is comfortable.” “We have no big freezers, no granite counters. Peterson likes to cook, but her kitchen isn’t remarkable, her husband said. “We were vegetarians for eight years and then we fell off the wagon when I got pregnant and had cravings for chicken and dumplings.” Miniature pink roses cover the playhouse, which is next to a small vegetable garden where Peterson grows tomatoes, basil and other herbs.

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