Cassandra Peterson was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born in Manhattan in Kansas. Her career began at age 17 as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history in the show "Vive Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel. After receiving advice from "The King" himself, Elvis Presley, she moved to Europe in search of the career of a singer and actor. She was the main character in Federico Fellini's Roma (1972), and appeared across Europe as the lead singer of an Italian rock group. When she returned to the United States, her musical comedy show Mama's Boys took her on tours across the country. Then she settled in Hollywood in the United States, where she worked for 4 1/2 years with L.A.'s most popular improv comedy group, The Groundlings. In 1981, she was a candidate to be a horror hostess at an Los Angeles television station. Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981) was her first show on television. She invented Elvira and was a cult popular.
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