{"id":8542,"date":"2016-10-11T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:50:04","slug":"interview-victoria-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/interview-victoria-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Victoria Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/interview-victoria-price\/cd-gen-interviews\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CD-Gen-Interviews.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"830,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Victoria-Price-by-Robert-Cushing-1-1.jpg?fit=2116%2C1652&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2116,1652\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1433082006&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;42&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"victoria-price-by-robert-cushing-1-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Victoria Price&lt;br \/&gt;\n(Photo Copyright Robert Cushing)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Victoria-Price-by-Robert-Cushing-1-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C937&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Victoria-Price-by-Robert-Cushing-1-1.jpg?w=1706&amp;ssl=1 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Price<br \/>(Photo Copyright Robert Cushing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decades before the Dos Equis commercials, Vincent Price was \u201cthe most interesting man in the world.\u201d Or at least, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think I was six or seven when I first saw him on TV. Was it his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Y0Yf2MpCuA\" target=\"_blank\"> guest appearance as a sinister archaeologist on an after-school rerun of <\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brady Bunch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Or maybe some Saturday afternoon when the late, lamented channel 48 in Philadelphia showed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vll8TZ4Qo4\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Wax <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as part of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creature Double Feature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? I can\u2019t say for sure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All I know is that he made an impression. Having grown up in a working class family where the dial was set to pro wrestling more than PBS, I wasn\u2019t introduced to that many examples of erudite sophistication. And while Price\u2019s filmography is certainly rife with camp, that wasn\u2019t clear to me as a kid. What <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> clear to me was that Vincent Price played educated characters. Often artistic or scholarly characters. His film personas may have given me the first examples of such people.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I interviewed Victoria Price (daughter of Vincent), it became clear that this sophistication wasn\u2019t part of the act. Her father <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">truly was<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> well-educated (Yale, 1933) and refined. He was a world traveler, an appreciator of fine art, and something of a gourmet. (Vincent Price and his second wife, Mary, co-authored the highly praised cookbook <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingvincent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Treasury of Great Recipes<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last couple of years, Victoria (we\u2019re not on a first name basis, really, but I think it\u2019ll be simpler if I refer to her that way) has appeared frequently on the horror convention circuit. You can see her chatting with her father\u2019s fans in the dealers room, or in the hotel ballroom delivering her superb presentation <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vincent Price: Master of Menace, Lover of Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we think of Vincent Price\u2019s career as a magnificent museum, Victoria is the ideal guide and interpreter. \u00a0But she also has a lot to say about the kind of man her father was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">away <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rom the limelight<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And she\u2019s a bright, fascinating person in her own right. She\u2019s someone who has lived a life in the arts and&#8212;as she discloses in this interview&#8212;she\u2019s even flirted with writing poetry and fiction. Meanwhile, she\u2019s also involved in a number of nonfiction projects involving her father, including her father\u2019s recently released memoir of his life with his beloved pet mutt, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Joe-About-Dog-Headline\/dp\/B0007DYK92\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book of Joe<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and two other books with autumn 2016 release dates. (A new edition of Price\u2019s 1959 autobiography <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentprice.com\/products\/copy-of-holiday-2016-surprise-gift-a-signed-copy-of-the-2016-i-like-what-i-know-a-visual-autobiography-by-vincent-price-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Like What I Know<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and another, previously-unreleased title,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversations with Vincent: The Art of Living<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever I interview someone I try to avoid asking the same sorts of questions they\u2019re asked all the time. So I started off this interview by asking Victoria about her career in interior design. But this quickly led to all kinds of wide-ranging discussion in which we talk about Tim Burton, Roger Corman, her father\u2019s favorite works of literature, and perhaps the most important question of all: \u201cIs Hollywood crazy?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Interview conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolecushing\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Cushing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>CEMETERY DANCE ONLINE: Tell me a little about interior design. How did you get involved in it? What drew you to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VICTORIA PRICE: I became involved because I had, probably, one of the top Native American art galleries in the world. And that, of course, is a legacy of my dad. I was an art history major like he was, and had a great interest in Native American art just like my dad did. He was on the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Department of the Interior for fifteen years. And when I had that gallery, there was a design component to it and I always had a designer on staff. I did a TED Talk about this that people can see. It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NWPeuIXMpn0\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTell Me: What Do You Have in the House?\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I apprenticed with my mom (costume designer turned architectural designer Mary Grant Price) growing up. And at a time when I needed it, those design skills saved my bacon. And design has been a wonderful gift for me. I think the primary gift has been that it\u2019s allowed me to work with incredible people. I realize that what design and horror conventions have in common are the people&#8212;just truly wonderful people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it\u2019s also wonderful, as a designer, to get to use all of my skills. I work with a lot of artists but I also get to design cool things. I work with an amazing rug maker in Nepal and I get to design my own rugs. I get to work with woodworkers and design my own furniture. So it\u2019s a fun creative outlet for me, but it\u2019s also been my bread and butter for many years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m very fortunate in that the thing I really love doing&#8212;writing&#8212;is coming back into my life now. I\u2019m getting to do that more, as well. I have a number of books coming out in the coming years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypracticeofjoy.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">my blog<\/a> is picking up followers, so I\u2019m getting to write more. And, of course, I think my greatest love is public speaking and getting to do about forty talks a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, with the books, do you have any interest in writing fiction or poetry? Do you write poetry? I noticed you cited a poem during your presentation (at WonderFest) and it seems to me that most people who read poems are interested in trying their hand at poetry, at some point. Is that something you do as a hobby, as an avocation? Do you ever imagine the possibility of putting your own fiction or poetry out there for publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My brother\u2019s a poet. He\u2019s an incredible poet, so I\u2019ll put a plug in for my brother. He publishes under the name V.B. Price and his poems are amazing. I used to write poetry and my critical voice became too strong in my head to write it. I love writing fiction. It also scares the hell out of me&#8230;.That said, I\u2019ve been working on a novel for quite a while and I chip away at it as I write all the nonfiction. You probably have something similar, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah. I do fiction writing and I do the nonfiction writing, in addition to that. You\u2019ve already passed over one hurdle. Just to be creative in our society is something that\u2019s so difficult. Because our society pressures people to do something <i>functional<\/i>. I\u2019m glad that you\u2019re working on a novel. I know some writers don\u2019t like to talk about things that are in development. But can you give us any hints about the story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I want to say is that I was truly blessed to grow up with three parents&#8212;a mother, a father, and a stepmother&#8212;who had the opportunity to live creative lives and they encouraged <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">everyone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they met to live creative lives. So of course I was encouraged to live a creative life. I think my father really hoped I would make my living as a writer. And he always encouraged me in my writing. I wrote a lot of plays. And he was very, very positive about them. So that was a gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea (for the novel) came to me as I was flying home from Mexico. It\u2019s about what would happen if somebody came into the world who discovered that they had the power to heal other people, but they didn\u2019t want to be caught up in the whole celebritizing of anything that happens in our society. And so they came in and had this effect on all these people\u2019s lives and yet completely avoided being deified&#8230;It has a Hollywood component, because one of the two main characters comes from Hollywood, and it\u2019s part of her escape from that; from actually coming out of some really bad stuff that happened. And she, herself, doesn\u2019t really understand the power&#8230;It has a lot of threads that for me are important. My spiritual path is the most important thing in my life. I\u2019ve tried to make sense of how I grew up, my own Hollywood upbringing, for a long time. It\u2019s a story of friendship, of how healing and love go hand in hand and that friendship is such an important part of that. And I hope that one day I can stop being a workaholic long enough to give myself some time to really work on it. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8544\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8544 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Victoria-Price-Speaking-Photo-by-Nicole-Cushing-e1474393026165-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Victoria Price (Photo Copyright Nicole Cushing)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Price<br \/> (Photo Copyright Nicole Cushing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Is Hollywood a crazy place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, it\u2019s interesting. I was telling somebody this recently. My two best friends growing up were twins, their names are Casey and Timolin Cole and they\u2019re Nat King Cole\u2019s daughters. And the reason we became friends is because I think we loved each other and they were too cool for school. I was so honored to be their friend. We were also the three tallest girls; we all ended up being 5\u201911\u201d. But our real bonding was that we had these strict mothers. And, you know, it was not easy having strict mothers in totally permissive 1960s Hollywood. As much as we didn\u2019t like it, I think if all three of us were sitting here talking to you we would say that we all went on to get Ivy League educations, we all went on to be as screwed up as anybody else, but we\u2019re not dead. My brother keeps a file of kids of celebrities who\u2019ve killed themselves. It\u2019s sort of his cautionary tale of what can happen. There\u2019s a lot of expectation and there\u2019s a lot of opportunity and it can be scary. I think if Casey and Timmie and I were sitting here talking to you together we would all be saying: \u201cThank God for our disciplined mothers, because they saved our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are any actors on the present-day entertainment stage that remind you, in some way, of your dad? Maybe one doesn\u2019t match, element for element, with your dad\u2019s personality. But I\u2019m wondering if one person\u2019s sense of humor reminds you of your dad, or if one person\u2019s sense of menace reminds you of your dad? Or is that something that we just don\u2019t see anymore, in an actor? To have your dad\u2019s kind of approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think a lot of people feel that there\u2019s something about my dad that really no one is able to capture, because he was so much larger than life. But I will say that there are things in certain actors that I\u2019ve noticed. When people have said to me: \u201cWho would you get to play your dad?\u201d, I\u2019ve always said Kevin Kline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I can see that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They\u2019re both from St. Louis, they have that similar sort of humor, but (with) dapperness. So Kevin Kline has always been my choice to play my dad. I used to know Johnny Depp. I don\u2019t know him anymore. But I always felt it was no coincidence that Johnny met my dad&#8230;And in a way, he has kind of \u00a0modeled, I believe, his career (on my dad\u2019s). He doesn\u2019t take himself too seriously, he does all kinds of things, he\u2019s willing to poke fun at himself and go way over the top. He\u2019s also played against type. I mean, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Johnny Depp was about as beautiful as any young man you\u2019ve ever seen, right? And he\u2019s willing to play ugly and be toothless and to just have fun in a role. So I think Johnny is an example of someone who is larger than life and has that adventurous spirit. Both Geminis! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You mentioned not being in touch with Johnny at this point. What about Roger Corman or Tim Burton? Has there been any kind of correspondence between them and you? Any kind of continuing communication with those folks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever Roger and I are at the same event, I always am so grateful because I get to hear his stories. You know, Roger got to spend almost as much time with my dad during my childhood as I did. And he got to do it as an adult. So he got to really see who my dad was when I was a kid. So to me to hear Roger\u2019s stories is kind of a way of connecting the dots of my childhood, which I love. And in terms of Tim Burton, he\u2019s always reached out in really lovely ways. I was incredibly honored to be asked to write some pieces for the book that accompanied his show at the Museum of Modern Art, (a show) that has toured the world. That was an incredible honor for me. And Tim has absolutely, always, honored my dad\u2019s legacy&#8230;That said, I wish the studios would find a way to make it affordable for Tim to be able to release <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversations with Vincent<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Burton\u2019s long-delayed documentary film on Vincent Price&#8212;not to be confused with the forthcoming book with a similar title), because it\u2019s the cost for the clips that is holding him up from releasing it and honestly I think there should be some sort of loophole for that. There should be a way that the fans can be allowed to see that footage and that movie being made without the studios gouging him to make a documentary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think all the fans would definitely be in favor of that, too. Switching gears a bit, are there any directors that your dad, for scheduling reasons or some other reason, didn\u2019t get a chance to work with but maybe would\u2019ve liked to? Your dad never worked with Hitchcock, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He did once, on TV. I think it would have been exciting for him to do a movie with Hitchcock. I can\u2019t think of any off the top of my head but I do know that he was very aware of wanting to work with certain directors. I remember my dad telling me that when everyone heard that Cecil B. DeMille was coming out of retirement to make <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ten Commandments, everyone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wanted to be in one of those movies. But you know, my dad got to make one hundred and five movies and he got to work with some amazing people. Some of them were bad. You know, he got to work with James Whale, who was a great director, on a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">truly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> horrific film called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Green Hell<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So he got to work with a lot of the greats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I know he was a man who appreciated fine literature. He appreciated Poe. Did he have any favorite Poe stories? What were some of his other literary tastes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My dad loved poetry. He loved Shakespeare. When I interviewed Diana Rigg, she said to me something that I was so happy to have her say. She said, \u201cPeople don\u2019t realize what an incredible reader of verse he was.\u201d \u201cSpeaker of verse,\u201d actually, is what she said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t realize what an incredible speaker of verse he was.\u201d And that\u2019s true. Oh my God, he had that mellifluous voice. A man named Leonard Slatkin wrote a symphony for my dad that was based on \u201cThe Raven\u201d and so he got to recite that (poem for the symphony performance). He loved doing that. He loved all the Romantic poets. He was a beautiful, beautiful speaker of verse and I think I learned from my dad. And of course I can\u2019t do it at all to the degree my dad did and I certainly don\u2019t have his wonderful voice. But what I learned&#8212;and what I love that I learned&#8212;is that the voice is an instrument. I recently, for a ceremony, wrote a poem that was based on Dr. Seuss\u2019s poem \u201cOh, the Places You\u2019ll Go!\u201d and I kind of did my own version of it. And I realized as I was reading it what fun it is to really, not speak words but kind of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">embody<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the words, step into the words, have the words become pictures as they come out of your mouth. And I learned that from my dad. He had such a capacity to do that. It was almost like he loved the word so much that the words took on the quality of his love. And that\u2019s what poetry taught him. And opera, he loved opera. He loved Schubert Lieder. He just loved words. And I learned that from him. And I will be forever grateful to him for that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before the Dos Equis commercials, Vincent Price was \u201cthe most interesting man in the world.\u201d Or at least, in my world. 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