![]() ![]() After Browne’s death, Price and his daughter spent over a year taping conversations that would form the basis of this compelling biography-cum-memoir. The deep bond between father and daughter managed to survive the machinations of Price’s third wife, the elegant British actress Coral Browne, who resented the close relationship between Price and his children and grandchildren. 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. ![]() Vincent Price was also a loving father to his daughter Victoria, who was born shortly before he turned fifty-one, at the height of his popularity. Widely revered for his elegance and erudition, this Renaissance man left his mark on many areas of American culture during the twentieth century. ![]() In addition to being an icon of stage and screen, Price was an art historian and collector who did much to popularize the visual arts in the United States, as well as a gourmet chef and author of bestselling cookbooks. His lengthy and distinguished career-as the voice of The Saint on the radio as an actor in such unforgettable horror films as House of Wax and The Fly, in classic movies such as Laura and The Song of Bernadette, and on popular TV shows such as Batman and The Brady Bunch and as a star on the Broadway stage-spanned sixty-five years. Since his death in 1993, Vincent Price’s legacy as a Hollywood legend has only grown in stature. ![]()
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