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Set in turn-of-the-century London, a young woman tries to solve the mystery of a friend's murder only to find that she may be the next victim... Moss Rose is a 1947 American film noir mystery film starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore and Vincent Price. It is an adaptation of the 1934 novels of the same name by Marjorie Bowen based on a real-life Victorian murder case. Did you know we have paired watching this movie with a two-course meal based on recipes from the kitchens of Vincent Price and Victor Mature which you can find in SUPPER WITH THE STARS? Available from Amazon worldwide. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/supperwiththestars/

Vincent Price narrates the 1989 VHS tutorial about the Nishika N8000 3-D camera & Twin Light 3010.

‘Moving to the next aisle, we have Arachnida, the spiders, our finest collection’... The Alice Cooper TV special The Nightmare, based on his first solo album Welcome To My Nightmare, had its US debut on 25 April 1975. You can watch it in full at the end of this post. In the Emmy-award-winning special, Cooper is Steven, a young man trapped in a nightmare of his own making, from which he cannot escape. Vincent Price, who originally lent his iconic voice to the introduction to The Black Widow, appears as the Spirit of the Nightmare – Steven’s sinister guide through his experience. You can read more about the TV special on the Sound of Vincent Price website: https://www.thesoundofvincentprice.com/alice-cooper-the-nightmare-tv-special/

In October 2013, Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month was Vincent Price, and John Waters delivered this heartfelt and appreciative retrospective of the iconic actor's life and career. We hope you enjoy it. Video courtesy of TCM

Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz, this atmospheric 1946 Gothic romance starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price adapted from Anya Seton's best-selling 1944 novel was 'the' dress rehearsal for the tortured outsider characters that Vincent Price would go on to play in the Poe/Corman cycle in the 1960s. Following its premiere in New York City on 10 April 1946, the film went on general release in the US on 19 April. Dragonwyck features in SUPPER WITH THE STARS, the fab new cookbook that pairs 52 recipes from the kitchens of Vincent Price and some of his legendary co*stars, including Gene Tierney. Available in paperback and digital editions from Amazon worldwide.

Although 1953's House of Wax premiered in New York on 10 April (at 8am), it was its premiere in Hollywood that really pulled out all the stops. 16 April was officially proclaimed '3-D Day', with the festivities beginning one-minute past midnight as the Hollywood and Downtown LA Paramount theatres began a 'Premathon' which ran for 24 hours. Warner’s Pathe newsreel, released on 27 April 1953, captures the arrival at the premiere of Bela Lugosi (dressed in his Dracula cape) leading Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla's Steve Calvert (suitably attired), watched by, amongst others, husband and wife Richard Denning and Evelyn Ankers. Other celebs in attendance include Shelley Winters and Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The first week grossed $58,200 at the downtown Paramount and $37,230 at the Hollywood; and when you think the standard admission price was around $1.25, it's pretty amazing!

Vincent Price Legacy UK curator, Peter Fuller, takes a look at the 1959 murder mystery, The Bat, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. WATCH THE FILM HERE: https://youtu.be/D1crnb9q7gs

Vincent Price narrates a collection of folktales, plus a couple of “recipes,” some verses, and a passage from an account of a witch trial. Three stories are from Carl Carmer, which are from the 1956 collection The Screaming Ghost and Other Stories. Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins was originally released by Caedmon Records in 1972 (TC-1393) and was the first of four spoken word collections that Vincent recorded for Caedmon

'Stories, sounds, spells, and incantations to send shivers up your spine!' A Hornbook for Witches: Poems of Fantasy is a 1950 collection of poems by Leah Bodine Drake. It was the author’s first book and her only collection published by Arkham House. The 1976 Caedmon LP (TC-1497), narrated by Vincent Price, contained four poems by Drake (“A Hornbook for Witches”, “Witches on the Heath”, “‘All Saints Eve”, and “The Ballad of the Jabberwock”) as well as Edgar Allan Poe's eerie Dreamland, John Collier's offbeat Thus I Refute Beezly, Maria Leech's practical but frightful How to See Ghosts or Surely Bring Them to You and Don’t, The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs and The Sands Of Dee by Charles Kingsley.