Oral history interview with Vincent Price
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Actors -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art patrons -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Vincent Price (1911-1993) was an actor and art collector and patron from Los Angeles, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 81 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 Aug. 6-14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.price92
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Vincent Price conducted 1992 Aug. 6-14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Los Angeles, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Price discusses his family and background; his college years in London and his theater work; his early career on the stage and in movies; the art world in Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s; the relationship of Hollywood to the art world; the regional character of Los Angeles art; the influence and role of Billy Wilder, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton, and others; his involvement with the Little Gallery, UCLA, the Modern Art Institute, and the Archives of American Art; and his role as a patron and collector.