Vincent Price

When did he start sucking cock?

Nothing here about Vincent's gay life.

Did any of the eldergays here know him?

He was married to Coral Browne

Young Vincent

His mother... MARG YOUR REET!

Who here had him?

My favorite trivia item was that he hauled horse shit in the trunk of his Mercedes for his garden.

He spent a lot of time in London, and was a regular at the City Of Quebec pub in Marble Arch. It’s well known as a venue for older gay men and their admirers, i.e it’s heaving with rent boys.

He met Coral Browne on Theatre of Blood, which they are remaking.

I love Coral Browne. She was fantastic in An Englishman Abroad.

I'm waiting for some sensible man too bring forth a SHRED of evidence or a credible anecdote!

I don't want to hear more lame, third-hand gossip which has fallen from the back of a truck or found in a Donald Spoto muck-raker!

That’s a nice picture of him at r5.

He’s been dead 27 years, R11. Are you goofy?

Coral Browne was the biggest dyke in the British theater. Their marriage was made in heaven.

Was her first husband gay then?

It was always known that Vincent and Coral had probably the happiest lavender marriage in Hollywood. They truly adored each other while living in separate wings of their house. Their daughter, sweet thing, still insists they were straight.

I thought his daughter said he was bi

The daughter did say Vincent was bi. He was quite a dish in his youth. I'd have loved to fuck him. Seems like he'd have a good sense of humor during sex.

And he was featured on THRILLER.

A friend of mine who lived in NY in the 50's said he ran into Price at an art gallery and they toured the exhibition commenting on the various pieces, he said Price was a bit flirty but nothing came of it, just an enjoyable afternoon in a gallery.

From his first two marriages, Price had a son and a daughter. He didn't have any children with Coral Browne.

"Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, the poet and columnist Vincent Barrett Price. Edith and Price divorced in 1948. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, the inspirational speaker Victoria Price on April 27, 1962, naming her after Price's first major success in the play Victoria Regina. The marriage lasted until 1973.

He married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974, who appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood (1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991.

His daughter's biography Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography (1999) details Price's early anti-Semitism and initial admiration for Adolf Hitler. According to his daughter: "When he went to Germany and Austria as a young man he was struck by a lot of things going on during the Weimar Republic and the disillusion of the empire... So when Hitler came into power, instead of seeing him as a dangerous force, he was sort of swept up in this whole idea that Hitler was going to bring German pride back." However, Price became a liberal after becoming friends with New York Intellectuals such as Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman in the 1930s, so much so that he was "greylisted" under McCarthyism in the 1950s, for having been a pre-war "premature anti-Nazi" and, after being unable to find work for a year, agreed to requests by the FBI that he sign a "secret oath" in order to save his career.

Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison at the end of an episode of The Saint, which aired on NBC Radio on July 30, 1950, claiming that Americans must actively fight against it because racial and religious prejudice within the United States fuels support for the nation's enemies. He was later appointed to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board under the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration; he called the appointment "kind of a surprise, since I am a Democrat."

He was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, and he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s. He was an honorary board member of PFLAG and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements discussing AIDS.

His daughter has said that she is "as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men."

"He began to dabble"

You bet your ASS he began to dabble!

That's cool that he was openly supportive of gays, a lot of older stars weren't (even the ones who were gay themselves)

Tnere is absolutely NO evidence that they are remaking ToB, R10. Are you sthe.same ass who stated that they were in another thread?

I thought Dame Judi had been booked for the Coral Browne role?

He’s a member of my fraternity. When we tell undergrads about him, they say “Who?”

I love Vincent Price and would have enjoyed fucking him at Yale, on in Pre War London or Berlin.

That photo of him when he was young makes him look dishy. Must be the lighting.

I greatly enjoy the reruns of "The Dick Cavett Show." They're quite educational to me since I was not raised in the U.S.

Dick Cavett interviewed Vincent Price and Price pinged in a very elegant and refined manner. He seemed like he was a lovely gentleman.

I only knew him as an "old man" playing horror roles. There's a whole side of him I never knew existed.

He's really a terrific actor, one of the good ones that's able to take weak material and make it enjoyable! He made a damn good living out of that for forty or fifty years, taking low-budget schlock and making it fun, because who else could do the same?

Tell me, does anyone know if all those Hammer films were as fun to make as they were to watch? Making the things in a week and throwing any damn thing on screen could have been a blast, or a misery. Anyone know which?

He is my favorite actor. I have a first edition of his cookbook which I cherish. In addition to being a fine chef, he was also an accomplished artist and did a series of paintings for Sears, I believe.

[quote]—Helen Lawson, still stung by his rejection

Coral rejected you too--didn't she, dear?

Love what he did with his dialogue in Theatre of Blood. So arch and campy (“Another critical miscalculation on your part, dear boy.”) I love it for his take on Shakespeare’s villains and others. My parents had a date night and left me babysitting at home—-they talked about how gruesome and funny it was. I couldn’t wait to see it one day. And I have, so many times. His Dr. Phibes was masterful as he dubs himself, never moves his lips, and “delivers” with his eyes. Phibes was the highest camp in the most glamorous presentation a mad serial killer could ever have.

R32 Here is an episode of The Snoop Sisters, with Vincent Price, and he cooks lunch for Mildred Natwick, who is a very funny drunk.

I find him adorable in his early film roles.

Something about him has aged really well. I can't explain it, other than to say I could see the 1940s version of him hosting SNL in 2021 (minus the accent) and he wouldn't seem dated at all.

Never liked the over the top camping around and absurd accent.

He spoke at my high school in the early 1980s. I briefly chatted with him - we started talking about theatre and to my surprise, he wasn't a fan of Sweeney Todd. (This is back when it was a new musical). One other thing not mentioned: he was a very tall man, easily 6'4".

My favourite story about Coral Browne- She was in the food hall at Harrods, and was being served by a very obsequious assistant. Please note that fancy department stores in 60s London required their staff to speak like this.

Assistant: “What would Modom’s pleasure be?”

Coral: “Modom’s pleasure would be a good hard fuck, but a pound of grapes will have to do”.

Price with Hammer horror buddies Peter Cushing, John Carradine and Christopher Lee...

Did he say why he wasn't a fan of Sweeney Todd? Aaron Copland didn't like it either which rather stung Sondheim.

R22 wins! I'm too lazy to find the advert right this moment, but Vincent also did some for Sears' carpet and linoleum. I'll try to find it.

Well, that wasn't hard...here it is.

He also had an amazing, huge Motorhome, and was pictured serving a roast Turkey dinner in it.

He just exudes sexuality to me

Well he doesn't at all to me. He's very good in Song of Bernadette but then everybody is.

Part of a very enjoyable acid trip was spent watching The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Vincent Price made a pass at me. We met at a fundraiser. He said something to the effect of, "Ah to be ten years younger." I replied "Ten????". (I was in my 30s. He would have been early 70s.) He burst out laughing. We talked for a while an exchanged phone numbers, but nothing more came of it.

Cause he only dabbled, R48.

[quote] only knew him as an "old man" playing horror roles. There's a whole side of him I never knew existed.

The same here, r30. I only knew him from his schlocky horror appearances in the '70s. What a fascinating life. extraordinary for his time. And prophetic.

[Quote]Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison at the end of an episode of The Saint, which aired on NBC Radio on July 30, 1950, claiming that Americans must actively fight against it because racial and religious prejudice within the United States fuels support for the nation's enemies.

His former wife Mary was once a friend of mine's landlady in Boston.

He told me if she had a few drinks in her, the stories would spill.

So I did read on DL he converted to Catholicism to please his (foul mouthed lesbian) Catholic wife. Since he was twice divorced I don't know how all that worked out, especially with the gay sex dabbling. But the DL mentioned they attended the Brompton Oratory when in London. It is a beautiful church. My preference is for the Jesuit parish there as it hosts the gay group. The Oratory is a bit homophobic although grand queens go there.

It's not often mentioned in association with Vincent Price, but the movie Dragonwyck is a pure camp classic. I think TCM said this was the role in which he moved from conventional leading man type roles (he was nothing special) to horror/creepy types that he played to the hilt. He seemed like a genuinely lovely man willing to make fun of himself & his campy roles.

Tallulah once led Vincent into her bedroom where husband John Emery was still sleeping.

She lifted the covers and watched as Vincent orally serviced Emery's large cock.

Hot r54

He seems like the kind of guy who loves sex and knows he's good at it

i aspire to age as gracefully as he did.

Me too r57

I think he has BDF

Wasn't he one of Melissa Rivers' godfathers?

With Tallulah watching even asleep that would be a dick wilter.

I first saw Vincent Price in a Canadian children's show called "House of Frightenstein" which was a fantastic educational show set in a spooky castle. It was from the early 70s, but ran on reruns thru the 1980s.

I love it r62!

A handsome, charming, elegant and talented actor, IMO. Always with that underlying sense of the campy absurdity of all things superficial. I always admired his film work in and outside of the horror genre.

I had no idea he was an art lover and had a background in art history.

Major pussy hound. Big Bush supporter.