Peterson also was a personality on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM 106.7 from 1982 to 1983. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) LOS ANGELES, Calif.
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Peterson auditioned for the role of Ginger Grant for the third Gilligan's Island television movie in 1981, shortly before KHJ-TV offered her the horror host position. As she writes, 'I thought if I can share my story, it might make one person out there feel like, 'Wow, this can happen to anybody at any time and no, I'm not, I didn't do anything wrong. 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. The Elvira actress hopes that by finally going public, she can help other sexual assault victims report the crimes and release their unearned guilt. Back in the United States, she toured nightclubs and discos around the country with a musical/comedy act, Mammas Boys. Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for playing the vampish character Elvira on the television show ‘Elvira’s Movie Macabre.’ The show was so successful that she has been called ‘Elvira’ ever since Her popularity peaked with the release of the comedy horror film ‘Elvira, Mistress of the Dark’. 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). In the early 1970s, Peterson moved to Italy and became lead singer of the Italian rock bands Latins 80 and The Snails. 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. 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). 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 had gone on one date with. 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.
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