OT - Vincent Price - Young and Old

[CastleBee]

A few days ago I was surfing around (or should I say Googling around) for info on movie props and I found this most bizarre page called...

The City Morgue Gift Shop(http://www.citymorguegiftshop.com).

Among other oddities, they sell life masks.  Of course, I had to take a look at the stock and just guess who I found in the Life Mask section ... Vincent Price and not only that but they have two of him - youngish 1940's Vincent and then one from the 1980's.  Oddly, I found it either the same day or the day after I read Arashi's post in which she mentions the difference in the way he looked back when and then later in life as most of us best remember him.  Anyway, I made a little web page of the masks for anyone interested in seeing them go to...

http://castlebee.bravepages.com/VincentPrice.htm

Disclaimer: I am not associated in any way with this site. ~CastleBee[/font]

[Raineypark]

Okay Castlebee......that ranks right up there among the top ten weirdest damned things I've ever seen on the Internet.

Thanks....I think.

[arashi]

It's amazing how much one's face changes throughtout their lifetime isn't it? Thanks for the heads up on this Castlebee!

I looked all over to find a picture of Mr. Price as Clifford Pyncheon in House of Seven Gables but alas. I did find one of him as Nicholas Van Ryn in Dragonwyck. This was circa 1946, making him 35 at the time.



Death masks, were they a common practice back in the day? I'm not sure.

~Arashi

[Birdie]

Dragonwyck, good movie, good book.  Thanks for reminding me of it.  I will have to tell my daughter about it.  She would enjoy reading the novel.  I think the movie has played on TCM in the last year.

Birdie

[Miles]

Vincent Price is a horror cinema diety.  From Dr. Phibes to Last Man on Earth to 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, he is the man.

[Philippe Cordier]

Yikes, the second one looks more like a death mask ...

[arashi]

::laughing:: 13 ghosts of Scooby-doo! My God I thought hardly anybody remembered that show!

He really was the man!

~Arashi

[CastleBee]

It's amazing how much one's face changes throughtout their lifetime isn't it?

I KNOW! The biggest change was his mouth...the '80's mask makes me think of Droopy Dog.

I looked all over to find a picture of Mr. Price as Clifford Pyncheon in House of Seven Gables but alas. I did find one of him as Nicholas Van Ryn in Dragonwyck. This was circa 1946, making him 35 at the time.

Nice photo. Now I want to see the movie!

Death masks, were they a common practice back in the day? I'm not sure.

I don't know much about them myself.  I assumed they were pretty popular for the rich and famous before the invention of photography.

[onyx_treasure]

     Thanks for posting about the masks.  It got me in the mood to re-watch my copy of "The House on Haunted Hill".  I know its kinda hokey by todays standards but it still gives me the shivers.  I just love Vincent Price in any movie.  Thanks again, Castlebee.
PS.  You make one cute li'l bee,  Castlebee.

[Philippe Cordier]

Great news for those who like the combination of Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe.

One of the first places I sought out in my new city was Borders (thank god they have one, but only, one store here -- I'm used to having three I could go to, and half a dozen B&N's) ... Anyway, I was browsing the DVD section and found that Price's one-man Poe show, "An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe," which I've enthusiastically promoted in the past, is now out on DVD.  It's a double feature with my personal favorite of the Price - Corman - Poe movies, "The Tomb of Ligeia."  And it costs only $12!!