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LIFE OF VINCENT PRICE: 1941 - 1950 Vincent Price spent the 1940's on Broadway and in Hollywood. He lost both parents, divorced his first wife, and married again. He also became active in promoting the arts in the film community. Most interesting, we think, is the mercurial nature of his film roles during this time. Note the number of films announced that he did not end up making, as well. |
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January 2, 1941, LA Times |
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May 24, 1941, Santa Cruz Sentinal |
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Edith Barrett also entered motion pictures. Here she's seen with Elsa Lanchester in the 1941 film Ladies in Retirement. |
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1942 |
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1943 |
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1943 |
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Vincent Price and George Macready open an art gallery in LA. July 1943. Remember the old guy who comes back from the dead to kill Roddy McDowall in the Night Gallery film? That's Macready. |
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August 1943 |
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1944. Another film he never made. |
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1944 |
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Vincent's hometown newspaper (The St. Louis Star and Times) writes about him. March 11, 1944. |
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1944. Vincent was going to join the Navy?! |
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"Czarina" was made as A Royal Scandal. June 1944. |
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August 18, 1944, Bakersfield Californian. |
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October 1944. This was all about to change. |
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December 1944. One of Vincent's luckiest breaks. |
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1945 |
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January 1945. These columnists could be brutal. Laird Cregar died as a result of his being overweight. |
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April 17, 1945 |
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1945 |
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1945. Vincent did not appear in the film, which was the original non-musical version of The King and I. |
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LA Times story about Vincent, in 2 parts. November 1945. |
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February 1946 |
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February 1946. The film Vincent made, and was subsequently replaced in. |
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1946 |
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March 17, 1946. His path in films is growing more obvious. |
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March 1946. Perhaps the last time Vincent saw his mother. |
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August 1946. It never happened. |
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September 1, 1946, LA Times |
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October 1946. Vincent's mother dies. |
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1946. This would have had Vincent as Oscar Wilde 30 years before Diversions and Delights. |
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1946 |
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Vincent, son Barrett, and family pet seem so happy in the 1940's. |
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Vincent attempts to promote Los Angeles' cultural institutions, November 1946. |
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December 1946 |
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December 1946. More Price family happiness. |
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January 1947 |
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1947. This was released as The Web. |
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May 1947. He was replaced by Don DeFore. |
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May 1947. Controversy surrounding an art exhibition in LA. |
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June 1947. Another missed opportunity. |
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August 1947. And another. He'd appeared in the Ibsen stage version a decade before. |
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August 1947. |
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September 1947. A nice two-part article about Vincent and Edith shortly before their divorce. |
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The second part of the article. |
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September 1947. Newspaper ad for Vincent's popular radio program. |
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September 1947. Another undeveloped film role. |
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November 1947. The film was made, but most of the songs (including all of Vincent's) were cut. |
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November 1947 |
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December 1947. Never produced. |
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December 1947 |
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December 1947 |
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January 1948 |
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January 1948 |
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February 1948 |
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May 1948 |
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June 1948. Vincent and Edith are divorced. |
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Also June 1948. Vincent's father dies. |
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July 1948. Never made. |
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July 1948 |
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August 1948 |
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October 1948. Romantic entanglements. |
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October 1948 |
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November 1948 |
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December 1948 |
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January 1949 |
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February 1949 |
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March 1949 |
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April 1949 |
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Vincent's donation of a Gauguin painting in memory of his parents, June 1949 |
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1949 |
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October 1949. The first of several about the wedding of Vincent and Mary Grant |
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October 1949 |
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More promotion of art to the common person, November 1949 |
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December 1949 |
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December 1949. This version of Dickens' classic can be found on YouTube! |
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February 1950 |
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April 1950 |
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April 1950. The film features Vincent's funniest performance. |
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May 1950 |
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May 1950. The film would be released as His Kind of Woman. |
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May 1950. This reteaming of Price and Flynn seemed like a good idea at the time, but it didn't turn out that way. The film would be released as The Adventures of Captain Fabian. |
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July 1950. Price made three broad comedy appearances around this time. |
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July 9, 1950 |
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August 1950 |
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September 1950 |
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More fashion advice from Vincent! October 1950. |
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October 1950 |
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October 1950. Price scored big in the stage production of The Winslow Boy in California. |
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December 1950 |