What does Vincent Price have to do with iron beds? You may be asking. Very little…….accept for the fact that I once sold two beautiful beds to a couple who had purchased his old estate in Beverly Hills and completely remodeled it to the grandeur it once was when he was alive.
Vincent Price was a very successful actor throughout his early life, but was best known for his roles in numerous scary horror films. Few people know he was a true patron of the arts and was an avid collector of fine art. A donation he made to the East Los Aneles College in Monterey Park Ca., establishing the first “teaching art collection” owned by a community college in the U.S. Today, the Vincent Price Art Gallery continues to present world-class exhibitions, and remains one of the actor’s most enduring legacies. The collection contains over 2,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of five million dollars. Price was a lifelong smoker. He had long suffered from emphysema and Parkinson’s disease, which had forced his role in the movie Edward Scissorhands to be much smaller than intended.
His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery!, as his condition was becoming noticeable on-screen. He died of lung cancer on October 25, 1993. He was cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California. Where I happen to live…………
