Sunday, October 25, 2020

REMEMBERING VINCENT PRICE

With Halloween around the corner, one of the Everything Croton Elves reminded us that Vincent Price died on this day in 1993. We also found a fabulous photo of him in the Flickr archives you might enjoy seeing; he was really quite handsome---CLICK HERE

Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his film debut in Service de Luxe (1938) and established himself in the film Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney...He played Joseph Smith in the movie Brigham Young (1940) and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (1944) as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).

His first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (1939). The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (a role he reprised in a vocal cameo at the end of the horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein released in 1948...
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AND HERE'S A GREAT POST FROM OUR FRIENDS AT EUROPEAN FILM STAR POSTCARDS https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2020/06/vincent-price.html

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