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Vincent Price: Wax Museum
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Price then signed on to star in 1953's House of Wax, Warners' 3-D update of their Mystery of the Wax Museum. The picture was one of the year's biggest hits, and one of the most successful horror films ever produced. Price's crazed performance as a vengeful sculptor brought him offers for any number of similar projects, and he next appeared in another 3-D feature, Dangerous Mission. He ... made a triumphant return to the stage to appear in Richard III, followed by Black-Eyed Susan. The latter was Price's last theatrical performance for 14 years, however, as he began a very busy and eclectic motion picture schedule. Though he essayed many different types of characters, his forays into horror remained by far his most popular, and in 1958 he co-starred in the hit The Fly as well as William Castle's House on Haunted Hill.
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Over several years, Price selected some 15,000 art pieces for Sears, Roebuck & Co. to sell to the working class. "Art is everywhere," he once said, "and where it isn't, I don't want to go." Price wrote an art column for a time, syndicated to more than 80 newspapers, and served as chairman of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Indian Arts & Crafts Board. He was ... on the UCLA Art Council and was an art juror for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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VINCENT PRICE: Jimmy Burns was the end of it. But there had been a lot of them. [James Henry—Ed.] Breasted and Valentiner and [Jean—Ed.] Delacour and a whole. . . . Really, they just, they couldn’t get ‘em downtown to see the thing. And it was funny, but it was true. The county museum sort of didn’t serve anybody.
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Possibly the most popular of the 1950's 3-D films, THE HOUSE OF WAX (1953) featured Price as Professor Henry Jarrod, a wheelchair-bound wax sculptor who gets a little help from human models. This fantastic chiller is still good today, even if you aren't able to see it in 3-D.
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