More or less the actor fell into it when wanting to do a film about Edgar Allen Poe. Vincent Price is known to be the master of horror but the title is not something that he sought out. Victoria really captured a very well painted picture of her father, and with his words sprinkled throughout (from diaries and unpublished memoirs) it gives you quite the embellishment. After reading this memoir I want to watch more of his films and read his books about art.

I have not watched many Vincent Price films, and I have not read any of his many books. Not only to forgive her father for his misdeeds, but also write a very well written biography about his life. Victoria Price is a really amazing person. I like to think that while this is a biography it is also a memoir of sorts too. I closed out the month of October by reading this gem of a book. Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography is, in short, the thorough-and uniquely intimate-life of a legend. Victoria Price's account life of her father is full and candid both his passionate and charismatic public persona and his conflicted inner life are treated with curiosity and understanding. And his passion for the arts gave him a second life as an erudite columnist and collector, even as his films graced drive-ins nationwide. As a 'pre-war anti Nazi sympathizer,' he was greylisted during the Red Scare of the 1950s-until, in a desperate gesture, he signed a secret oath that saved his career. An actor of range, he starred in both the film noir milestone Laura and the Biblical classic The Ten Commandments. In this elegant biography-cum-memoir, Victoria Price reveals a man both complex and human. Late in Price's life, however, he and his daughter were brought together again for some of their most memorable time together. Victoria was a girl of twelve, and her new stepmother resented the strong relationship between father and daughter, and consequently did much to keep the two apart. That is, until Price married his third wife, the headstrong and independent actress, Coral Browne. Victoria adored him, and despite his harrowing schedule, their relationship was close.

Though the star's busy film schedule took him in and out of his young daughter's life, he was always a larger-than-life presence and, simply, her father. His daughter Victoria was born shortly before Price turned 51, at the height of his popularity.

In addition to being an icon of stage and screen large and small, Price was also an avid art collector, a gourmand, a dashing and relentless charmer, and a loving father. Vincent Price is a true Hollywood legend, whose vast and distinguished career-as the voice of The Saint on the radio, in such unforgettable films as House of Wax and The Fly, and on the Broadway stage-spanned more than a half-century.

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