ELVIRA, Mistress of the Dark Trivia

PG-13

1988

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The Gal who put the Boob in Boob-tube

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Film facts for the 1988 Comedy movie starring Cassandra Peterson, William Morgan Sheppard, Daniel Greene, Susan Kellerman

Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg, William Duell, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins, Damita Jo Freeman, Tress MacNeille, Edwina Moore, Mario Celario, Lee McLaughlin, Bill Swearingen, Charles Woolf Update Cast

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When Elvira is helping the hunk of the film change the movie marquee, notice when she slips and almost falls off the ladder the word that is created on the marquee for a moment when she is trying to regain her balance.

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Scriptwriter John Paragon plays a petrol station attendant.

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In real life, Elvira is a redhead.

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The town of Falwell, Massachusetts, in Elvira's movie, has a strange resemblance to the real town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, on old Cape Cod... Is there any connection between the towns? Was Falmouth the inspiration for "Falwell"?

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The news anchor Elvira fights with was apparently based on a real person she worked with at a TV station in her early days. The anchor is played in one of her only live-action roles ever, by Elvira's fellow Groundlings alumni Tress MacNeille. MacNeille is better-known for her cartoon voice-over work, most especially as the voice of Millhouse and others in The Simpsons and on the Steven Spielberg cartoons "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs". On one episodes of TTA, MacNeille (voicing the character of Babs Bunny) did a dead-on impression of Elvira.

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The day of its theatrical release it came in at #2 and was beating out "Gorillas in the Mist", but the studio that financed the film (New World Pictures) went bankrupt on the day of the film's release. So instead of its original worldwide release, it was only shown in 300 theaters.

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Due to the bankruptcy of New World Pictures and bad financial contracts, Cassandra Peterson and Mark Pierson, to this day, don't make a penny from the film's video sales or TV airings.

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Edie McClurg, who plays Chastity Pariah, was also a Groundling, a frequent guest-star with Pee Wee Herman and Cheech and Chong, and was one of the cast members of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Serial Mom". Busy woman, huh?

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There's often fake stuff floating round, y'know? -Like the 'ghost boy' that can allegedly be seen in "Three Men And A Baby".

The following trivia for "ELVIRA, Mistress of the Dark" is apparently bogus. If you disagree or have additional info, please update us.

Myth: Elvira's dress had to be glued on to her because they wanted it skin tight without it busting seams!

Fact: While Elvira has joked about her gown being 'glued-on' in fact it is supported by a custom built super support bra. The dress it's self was never glued.

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