Copperhead Izzy (1969) | When Vincent Price met little Eddie Munster on Daniel Boone
On 30 January 1969, Vincent Price guest starred in the fifth-season 15th-episode of Fess Parker's popular action-adventure US TV series Daniel Boone, playing Thaddeus Morton, a conman trying to solicit funds from concerned citizens to build an orphanage. In reality, however, Thaddeus and his wife are forcing their charges to…
Darling of the Day (1968) | Vincent Price’s first and only Broadway musical
The Theatre Guild and Joel Schenker Present Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge In a new musical DARLING OF THE DAY Based on Arnold Bennett’s Buried Alive and his play The Great Adventure. Also starring Brenda Forbes, Peter Woodthorpe and Teddy Green. Composed by Jule Styne Lyrics by EY Harburg ‘...thoroughly…
A Colorslide Tour | Visit the world’s great museums with Vincent Price from the comfort of your home
These five Guided Tours of the World's Great Museums were produced by Panorama, a service of the Columbia Record Club, in 1960 in a series called, A Colorslide Tour of... Each book run 46 pages in length and 11″ by 8″ in size and contain two colourslide cards featuring 32…
Colorslide Travel Program | Let Vincent Price be your personal tour guide of Italy, Spain and Greece
These three Guided Tours of the World are part of the Colorslide Travel Program produced by Panorama, a service of the Columbia Record Club, between 1961 and 1962. Each book run 46 pages in length and 11" by 8" in size and contain two colourslide cards featuring 32 scenes and…
Pictura: Adventure in Art (1951) | Vincent Price invites you on ‘a strange and exciting voyage’
Beginning with a prologue directed by German film pioneer Ewald André Dupont (Varieté) in which Vincent Price talks to art students, this 80-minute film gave audiences a taste of art history and art appreciation, and won a Special Award at the Golden Globes in 1952 following its release on 21…
Laura (1944) | Still the greatest film noir of them all!
Nominated for four Oscars and winning one, this is the ultimate classic noir mystery. Dana Andrews plays the detective who delves into the murder of Gene Tierney's enigmatic Laura, with whom everyone is in love with. But it is Clifton Webb who steals the show as the titular ingenue's…
The Ballad of Mender McClure | General Electric Theater (1956)
Ronald Reagan introduces episode 16 of this fourth season General Electric Theater anthology series, which originally aired on CBS TV on 15 January 1956. A lazy, self-centered man (Thomas Mitchell) could care less about others, including his wife (Gail Bonney) and 10 children. A mysterious stranger (Vincent Price) then gives…
A Christmas gift from the Vincent Price Legacy UK
The Vincent Price Legacy UK wishes you all a joyous Christmas and a prosperous New Year. As a special treat, here's a rare recording from 1958 in which Vincent Price explores the music of Christmas from around the world. And speaking of treats, I am working with Victoria Price on…
The Las Vegas Story (1952) | Catch the RKO noir classic on BBC2 Saturday 26 November
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bso54TGLJ28 1952's The Las Vegas Story, which screens at 6am on Saturday 26 November on BBC2, is a minor RKO gem starring Jane Russell as a singer returning to Vegas with her gambler husband (Vincent Price), and picking up with her former lover (Victor Mature). But when a man is…
The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1956) | A Caedmon classic
[caption id="attachment_542" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Morris Graves' watercolour Bird (1950) from the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts.[/caption] The Poetry of Shelley (TC 1059), directed by Howard O Sackler, was released in 1956 (priced US$5.95), and reissued in 1962 by Caedmon (the 'third dimension for the printed page' according to their liner…