Vincent price a daughters biography
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Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
He was the distinguished darkman of the classic American horror film, a dashing gentleman who conveyed menace, wit, and tragedy with equal flair. His films -- from "House of Wax" to "Edward Scissorhands" -- have made him an enduring icon. In this elegant biography-cum-memoir, Victoria Price -- his daughter, and later friend and helpmate -- reveals a man both complex and human. A strong anti-Fascist, he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the '50s, until, in a desperate gesture, he signed a secret oath that saved his career. Victoria Price's life of her father is full and candid; his marriages, sexuality, and family life are treated with curiosity and understanding.
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Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
Victoria Price. St. Martin's Press, $27.5 (370pp) ISBN 978-0-312-24273-2
A legendary screen villain and host of PBS's Mystery, Vincent Price (1911- 1993) was also a gourmet chef, a bestselling author, an enthusiastic art expert and collector and a general all-around good guy, according to this vivid biography. Written by his daughter Victoria, who writes for television, the book takes us from Price's early acting career, where one of his first jobs was as Helen Hayes's leading man on Broadway, to his days, starting in 1938, under a Hollywood contract, beginning with supporting film roles (Laura; Song of Bernadette). By the 1950s, he had patented his suavely villainous screen persona in The Fly, House of Wax and The Ten Commandments. By the time Victoria was born to Price and his second wife, Mary, in 1962, he was enjoying his greatest success in film, his low-budget but highly profitable collaborations with Roger Corman (The Pit & the Pendulum, Masque of Red Death). Victoria Price explores her father's life as if unraveling a mystery, never ignoring his failings (his secret signing of a loyalty oath during the blacklisting era; an affair that destroyed his 24-year marriage) or secrets (including his possible bisexuality). Definitive, e
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