Cassandra Peterson Celebrates 40 Fearsome and Foxy Years as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Q&A)
Elvira Mistress of the Dark has been enchanting her fans for decades. Four fiendish ones to be exact. Cassandra Peterson, the actress who plays the gorgeously ghoulish movie hostess just had her 70th birthday and while we can’t explain how she still looks so incredible (spells and rituals? virgin sacrifices? dances with the devil himself?) we can say that her enduring popularity has a lot to do with her work ethic, her sharp humor, her presence and her smart approach to her brand. Her official website has a vast and vampy array of cool product (we want it all!) and she obviously hasn’t lost her keen (cat) eye or gift for quips.
With a new Shudder/AMC TV special and a brand new autobiography, Yours Cruelly – Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, getting tons of buzz, the babe in black is back and more bodacious than ever. In the book, she reveals a long-kept secret about her personal life too — that she’s been in a lesbian relationship for the last 19 years with her former trainer, a fact that she never shared until now. She’s always kept her love life private, though — she was also married to a man for over two decades prior, and rarely shared that. Boy, girl, goth, ghost — we all had a crush on the cleavage-baring creature she created back in 1981, didn’t we? She made the wise choice to keep Elvira and Cassandra separate a long time ago, allowing her singular image to haunt our dreams (and nightmares) for the past 40 years. And we still love her. Maybe more than ever.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2021/10/06/cassandra-peterson-celebrates-40-fearsome-and-foxy-years-as-elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-qa/
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I told the people I was with that I’d seen her.
“Was she in costume?”
Me: “No”
“How did you recognize her?”
Me: it’s. Elvira!!!
