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Leica M2
50mm Summicron, replica (yellow filter)
Ilford FP4 in Rodinal (semi stand)
-- I don't like shooting into sunlight, because it messes with my eyes, but sometimes I do, if I'm quick. This probably at MFD, which is 0.7m for this lens.
We were sitting down and this bench (Thanks to Parks Tasmania), our daughter snapped this as we turn around.
A view looking over part of Daventry from the road to Newnham, looking towards Borough Hill.
1st March 2020
Day 46: 15.2.09
Dragons are so touchy when it comes to their bits and pieces. I was only after a discarded toenail, a shed scale, hell I'd even have settled for some bum fluff. Dragon bits do after all have awe inspiring magical powers. Apparently the inside bits are even more useful but there's only two ways in to get at them. One is a bit too bitey and I don't even want to contemplate the other end.
Anyway he didn't take too kindly to the interuption of his soaps....sorry he's asked that I change that to manly Rugby game on telly. He's supporting the Welsh, no surprises there. Well I'm going to sneak back out before he has another attack of the sneezes and fires some blazing bogies in my direction :oP
*sniff sniff* can anyone else smell pork?
"First edition?" she murmurs, and opens the cover very carefully. Well-read, maybe, but excellent condition, considering. When he says it has artwork, too, she starts thumbing through the pages, delicately, looking for it. "You sure you want me to have this?" she whispers, looking up at him. "I don't really have a safe place to keep it. If it was your grandfather's... are you sure?"
Charles nodded. "Jes keep it with yer Bible, ain no one gonna steal a book, it's jes a book, they meant ta be read, not burned...an this one, i'm not sure if it's on tha burny list or not."
"A -first edition- book," she clarifies. And worth quite a bit, if she had to guess. "I can do that. Keep it there. But... are you really sure?" It's less about the monetary value and more that it belonged in his family that gives her pause.
Charles looked to Guin. "Remember whut yer new store is yeah? Yer gonna hafta accept shit off people that ya might feel guilty fer taken. Consider it training. Sides, yer jes lookin after it fer me."
I got home late from the pictures tonight. I went to see Hot Fuzz for the second time and Ghost Rider...Ghost Rider was good. It was much better than I expected.
Anyway I just did another of these candlelit photos and set my head on fire...I was in the mood :oP
I just had a thought....beard on fire...that's Hot Face Fuzz.
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En las exiguas dimensiones de unos pocos milímetros la Naturaleza despliega una inconmensurable belleza.
La Saxifraga umbria es poesía diminuta. Una obra de arte que ilumina el alma. Tan pequeña en su envergadura (15 mm.) que casi pasa desapercibida.
Es que las cosas hermosas no necesitan ser espectaculares, les basta con su belleza. Miramos hacia lo grande en busca de asombro y pasamos al lado de maravillas ocultas en su humildad.
En tiempos remotos se llamaba a la saxifraga umbria “la desesperación del pintor”.Tan pequeña y tan desesperantemente bella.
León Santillán
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Le parterre central était cerclé de gazon japonais et de «désespoir du peintre». Je me penchais, fascinée de les trouver chaque fois plus féeriques, la finesse des petites taches rouges sur le blanc des pétales m'attirait sans que jamais j'aie pu savoir pourquoi leur irréalité me troublait autant.
Jeannine Burny
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Photo : Saxifraga umbria ou heuchera sanguinea : Ces espèces (une quarantaine dans le genre) sont aussi appelées « désespoir du peintre » en raison de leur floraison en une abondance de fleurettes minuscules très difficiles de reproduire par les artistes peintres, car nécessitant pour cela une précision et une patience infinies.
Jon's lips were so covered in spicy wing goo, that by the end of the night, they were puffy and Erica didn't want to kiss him because they were all burny.
Aaaaand I'm done! Thank God for the extended deadline on this swap, or else I would have been pulling crochet all-nighters, and lord only knows that's definitely how I should be spending my time.
The deets (also on rav):
These are somewhat loosely based on this pattern, which is in German. Mine are different around the edges, and I added a back, which I'll describe here. I worked up a loose translation a while back and then made some mods so they could be functional potholders (i.e. not all burny). First I crocheted the main color front piece, then the back (which I don't have any pictures of and I'm totally kicking myself over) is the contrast color in a plain circle of dc's, and then I attached the two pieces with the contrast color and crocheted in to the center somewhat like what the German pattern tells you to do. I'll try to write these directions up more coherently some time soon, but I'm not making any promises on that since I'm really short on time lately.
These are knit picks wool of the andes, so 100% wool, crocheted with an E hook.
There was no point in lugging the flash units this time, as the big burny thing in the sky was doing the job nicely.
Drury- Klaus, please tell me you still have the antidote.
Klaus- Of course.
Drury- Good. Because I need you to get to the Cloudburst and shut it down. We'll stall Joker as long as we can, understand? Take Cypher with you. Bring Lester too.
Klaus- Right. And Mr Walker?
Drury- Yeah?
Klaus- I do hope you find your children.
Drury- Yeah... So do I.
*Snowman, Cypher and Electrocutioner exit. The rest of the group approach the door*
Gaige- So... do we knock? Or-
Joker- *On intercom* Leave your shoes at the door please! I don't want you tracking blood in here!
Gar- Heh. I guess that answers that...
*The group take off their shoes and enter. Inside is a large dinner table, at its head sits the Joker, beside him are Punch, Jewelee, Toyman and The Trickster*
Joker- My, there are a lot of you! If I'd known, I'd have set more chairs. Now, Bats up here, don't be shy... Drury, Miranda you sit opposite, you too Garfield. The rest of you... sit wherever. I can bring some bean bags in if you want a seat...
Batman- The hostages Joker. Where are they?
Joker- So confrontational. *sigh* I cook, I clean and yet he continues to make demands, it's honestly rather rude if I do say so. Just sit back and relax. As I was about to say before I was so rudely interrupted... I was thinking we try and get to know one another... to break the ice, eh Cap'n? James.
*Trickster gives a piece of paper to everyone and a pen*
Joker- Cheers. Now, what I want you to do is write down your names and place it in... Punchy! Pass down that hat of yours! That's better. Now, I'm going to pick two names out of this hat, the first name has to tell us three interesting things about the second person. And vice versa. Our first contestants! Alex and Batman! ... Who's Alex?
Phosphorus- Me.
Joker- Oh, I always thought you were a Steve...Well, come on,don't keep us in suspense!
Phosphorus- Um. For starters... He's vengeance. He's the night and... He's Batman.
Joker-... Not entirely what I was looking for. Bats? What can ya tell us about the human glow stick?
Batman- ... Sartorius is a brilliant scientist, a victim of society and has been pushed around all his life.
Phosphorus- That got personal fast.
Joker- Bats! You're supposed to say something interesting! What a snorefest! Let's try again. Gar and Joseph.
Gar- You mean Rigger? That's easy. He's a burny, horny bastard.
Joker- Short and sweet. Love it!
Rigger- Gar is... Gar is a bit of a maniac honestly. He used to dress in green spandex and he's been burned a lot. Not just physically but emotionally y'know... it's kinda sad but that's Gar.
Joker- *Sniff* You are tearing me apart Joey! Who's next? Drury and... James.
Drury- ... But I don't know anything about him.
Joker- Yes I suppose there's a bit of a flaw with this game. Still, James?
Trickster- I don't know much about Drury Walker but I can tell you plenty about that snot nosed brat of his. Li'l Axel is a no good spoiled, emo little hac-
*Jesse falls to the ground unconscious. The rest of the table look up to see Drury standing over him*
Joker- Really! That's just bad manners
Shhhh! Shh. Not a word. I don't think he's noticed us. At least I think he's a he. Yes he is. You can tell from the snow balls. I don't know if you should be getting this close to those kind of creatures. For a warm beast they're pretty cold hearted. Oh my does that mean this one can't breath fire? If it did it may melt. Oh that would be such a shame.
Wait a mo. No it wouldn't. Think of all the damsels that wouldn't be in distress. Having to get tied to great big logs. And in their nicest of dresses too. I'm not really sure that sort of speed dating is appropriate in this century. A dragon that can't burn up everything with a flaming bogie from it's sizzling nostril. Where's the threat? "Ha!" The damsel would say. Laughing in their scaly, leathery, scary, enormous, face.
Big face. Terrifying face. With great big pointy sharp claws. Ah. Yes. Um. This is...maybe their fiery burny breath isn't the only thing that could cause a bit of an issue. I still wouldn't recommend any damsel take them up on their offers of dinner. Mostly because dragons are notoriously terrible cooks. So just say nay.
American postcard by The American Postcard Company Inc., no. 126. Photo: Roddy McDowall / Harlequin Enterprises LTD. Caption: Vincent Price, Hollywood, 1973.
American actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine Vincent Price (1911-1993) was best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price Sr., president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price. His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price who invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar–based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune. Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Art History from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After teaching for a year, he entered the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theatre, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. He had a five-play contract, beginning with 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play 'Victoria Regina', which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria. Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his film debut in Service de Luxe (Rowland V. Lee, 1938) opposite Constance Bennett. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "After that, he reprised his stage role as Master Hammon in an early television production of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. For one reason or another, Vincent was henceforth typecast as either historical figures (Sir Walter Raleigh, Duke of Clarence, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, King Charles II, Cardinal Richelieu, Omar Khayyam) or ineffectual charmers and gigolos." He played Joseph Smith in the film Brigham Young (Henry Hathaway, 1940) starring Tyrone Power, and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (Henry King, 1944) as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), starring Gregory Peck. Price established himself in the Film Noir Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944), opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (Rowland V. Lee, 1939). The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). He reprised this role in a vocal cameo at the end of the horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948). Price reunited with Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) and Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946). There were also many villainous roles in Film Noir thrillers like The Web (Michael Gordon, 1947), The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, 1947) starring Henry Fonda, and The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949), with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton. He was also active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
Vincent Price's first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the biopic The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, 1950). He did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), one of his favourite film roles. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror film roles with the leading role in House of Wax (Andre DeToth, 1953) as a homicidal sculptor, the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office. His next roles were The Mad Magician (John Brahm, 1954), the monster movie The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959). That same year, he starred in a pair of thrillers by producer-director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill (1959) as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler (1959) as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense. Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). About this time he also appeared in episodes of a number of television shows, including Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and General Electric Theater. In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of low-budget filmmaking successes with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) starting with the House of Usher (1960), which earned over $2 million at the box office in the United States and led to the subsequent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). He then starred in The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo B. Ragona, 1964), the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel 'I Am Legend' and portrayed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves, 1968) set during the English Civil War. He starred in comedy films such as Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Norman Taurog, 1966). In 1968 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day, opposite Patricia Routledge. In the 1960s, Price began his role as a guest on the television game show Hollywood Squares, becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980. Price made many guest-star appearances in television shows during the decade, including Daniel Boone, Batman, F Troop, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1964, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still in operation as of 2016.
During the early 1970s, Vincent Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes. Price appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Robert Fuest, 1972), and Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973), in which he portrayed one of a pair of serial killers. That same year, he appeared as himself in the TV film Mooch Goes to Hollywood (Richard Erdman, 1971), written by Jim Backus. He was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven. Price recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone. In 1975, Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared together in an international stage adaptation of 'Ardèle' which played in the US as well as in London at the Queen's Theatre. During this run, Browne and Price starred together in the BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf (1975). He greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture. Price provided a monologue for the Alice Cooper song 'Devil's Food' (1975), and he appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program Tales of the Unexplained. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in an episode of The Muppet Show. In 1977, he began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play 'Diversions and Delights', written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy and set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed the role of Wilde at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. He eventually performed the play worldwide. Victoria Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.
In 1981, Vincent Price played Grover in the original stage musical production of The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover. In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price. He appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a 1982 television production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple. In 1982, Price provided the spoken-word sequence to the end of the Michael Jackson song 'Thriller'. In 1983, he played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death (Ray Cameron, 1983). He appeared in House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker, 1983) with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. He had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up. One of his last major roles, and one of his favourites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker, 1986). From 1981 to 1989, Price hosted the television series Mystery! In 1984, Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', and the narrator for 'The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'. In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987), a story of two sisters living in Maine facing the end of their days. His performance in The Whales of August earned the only award nomination of his career: an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), starring Johnny Depp. Vincent Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, the poet and columnist Vincent Barrett Price, and divorced in 1948. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, the inspirational speaker Victoria Price (1962), naming her after Price's first major success in the play 'Victoria Regina'. The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974, who appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991. He was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, and he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s. He was an honorary board member of PFLAG and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements discussing AIDS. His daughter has said that she is "as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men." Price suffered from emphysema, a result of being a lifelong smoker, and Parkinson's disease; his symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, making it necessary to cut his filming schedule short. His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery! in 1989. He died, at age 82, of lung cancer in 1993, at UCLA Medical Center. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honour.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Italian postcard by Grafiche Biondetti srl, Verona, no. 133/4. Illustration: Walt Disney Productions. Film image of Mickey's Christmas Carol (Burny Mattinson, 1983). Sent by mail in 1988.
Merry Christmas!
Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognisable characters.
Mickey was created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He debuted publicly in the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over 130 films, including The Band Concert (1935), Brave Little Tailor (1938), and Fantasia (1940). Mickey appeared primarily in short films, but also occasionally in feature-length films. Ten of Mickey's cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, Lend a Paw, won the award in 1942.
Mickey generally appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, and his friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Though originally characterised as a cheeky lovable rogue, Mickey was rebranded over time as a nice guy, usually seen as an honest and bodacious hero.
Source: Wikipedia.
British postcard by Moviedrome, no. M. 14. Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971).
American actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine Vincent Price (1911-1993) was best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price Sr., president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price. His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price who invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar–based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune. Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Art History from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After teaching for a year, he entered the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theatre, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. He had a five-play contract, beginning with 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play 'Victoria Regina', which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria. Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his film debut in Service de Luxe (Rowland V. Lee, 1938) opposite Constance Bennett. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "After that, he reprised his stage role as Master Hammon in an early television production of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. For one reason or another, Vincent was henceforth typecast as either historical figures (Sir Walter Raleigh, Duke of Clarence, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, King Charles II, Cardinal Richelieu, Omar Khayyam) or ineffectual charmers and gigolos." He played Joseph Smith in the film Brigham Young (Henry Hathaway, 1940) starring Tyrone Power, and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (Henry King, 1944) as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), starring Gregory Peck. Price established himself in the Film Noir Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944), opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (Rowland V. Lee, 1939). The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). He reprised this role in a vocal cameo at the end of the horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948). Price reunited with Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) and Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946). There were also many villainous roles in Film Noir thrillers like The Web (Michael Gordon, 1947), The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, 1947) starring Henry Fonda, and The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949), with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton. He was also active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
Vincent Price's first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the biopic The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, 1950). He did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), one of his favourite film roles. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror film roles with the leading role in House of Wax (Andre DeToth, 1953) as a homicidal sculptor, the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office. His next roles were The Mad Magician (John Brahm, 1954), the monster movie The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959). That same year, he starred in a pair of thrillers by producer-director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill (1959) as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler (1959) as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense. Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). About this time he also appeared in episodes of a number of television shows, including Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and General Electric Theater. In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of low-budget filmmaking successes with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) starting with the House of Usher (1960), which earned over $2 million at the box office in the United States and led to the subsequent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). He then starred in The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo B. Ragona, 1964), the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel 'I Am Legend' and portrayed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves, 1968) set during the English Civil War. He starred in comedy films such as Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Norman Taurog, 1966). In 1968 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day, opposite Patricia Routledge. In the 1960s, Price began his role as a guest on the television game show Hollywood Squares, becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980. Price made many guest-star appearances in television shows during the decade, including Daniel Boone, Batman, F Troop, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1964, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still in operation as of 2016.
During the early 1970s, Vincent Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes. Price appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Robert Fuest, 1972), and Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973), in which he portrayed one of a pair of serial killers. That same year, he appeared as himself in the TV film Mooch Goes to Hollywood (Richard Erdman, 1971), written by Jim Backus. He was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven. Price recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone. In 1975, Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared together in an international stage adaptation of 'Ardèle' which played in the US as well as in London at the Queen's Theatre. During this run, Browne and Price starred together in the BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf (1975). He greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture. Price provided a monologue for the Alice Cooper song 'Devil's Food' (1975), and he appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program Tales of the Unexplained. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in an episode of The Muppet Show. In 1977, he began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play 'Diversions and Delights', written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy and set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed the role of Wilde at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. He eventually performed the play worldwide. Victoria Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.
In 1981, Vincent Price played Grover in the original stage musical production of The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover. In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price. He appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a 1982 television production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple. In 1982, Price provided the spoken-word sequence to the end of the Michael Jackson song 'Thriller'. In 1983, he played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death (Ray Cameron, 1983). He appeared in House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker, 1983) with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. He had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up. One of his last major roles, and one of his favourites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker, 1986). From 1981 to 1989, Price hosted the television series Mystery! In 1984, Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', and the narrator for 'The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'. In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987), a story of two sisters living in Maine facing the end of their days. His performance in The Whales of August earned the only award nomination of his career: an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), starring Johnny Depp. Vincent Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, the poet and columnist Vincent Barrett Price, and divorced in 1948. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, the inspirational speaker Victoria Price (1962), naming her after Price's first major success in the play 'Victoria Regina'. The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974, who appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991. He was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, and he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s. He was an honorary board member of PFLAG and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements discussing AIDS. His daughter has said that she is "as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men." Price suffered from emphysema, a result of being a lifelong smoker, and Parkinson's disease; his symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, making it necessary to cut his filming schedule short. His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery! in 1989. He died, at age 82, of lung cancer in 1993, at UCLA Medical Center. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honour.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Can't believe you all wished for this stuff. It's bloody scorching. I only went out for a few minutes and look at me. Look at that. How can this sort of thing be a good sort of thing? I can assure you that that gargantuan ball of heat and flame and combustion which I believe is the only bad kind of bust. I can see no benefit to this sort weather.
What? Don't look at me like that. You knew this was coming. It's not the first time that burny hot thing has dared to flex it's hotness is m direction. I'm not going to sit back and let it get away with that level of toastiness. I'm going to do what needs to be done. I'm going to cower in a shadowy corner enveloped in the cool darkness while allowing it to get away with the aforementioned toastiness.
I mean look at what it's doing to me. Normally I have to think up elaborately fantastical excuses not to go outside but the possibility of turning into a pile of ash is thought to be a rather good reason. Oh for a shadow to leap into. A shadow and a hole. But a nice hole. A Hobbit Hole. Into which I shall disappear and sleep till autumn.
Autumn/Winter, don't want to chance it.
Spanish collectors card in the Coleccion de Artistas de la Pantalla, no. 65. Photo: Warner Bros, The cards were included with the magazine Revista Florita, no. 228.
American actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine Vincent Price (1911-1993) was best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price Sr., president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price. His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price who invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar–based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune. Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Art History from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After teaching for a year, he entered the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theatre, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. He had a five-play contract, beginning with 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play 'Victoria Regina', which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria. Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his film debut in Service de Luxe (Rowland V. Lee, 1938) opposite Constance Bennett. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "After that, he reprised his stage role as Master Hammon in an early television production of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. For one reason or another, Vincent was henceforth typecast as either historical figures (Sir Walter Raleigh, Duke of Clarence, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, King Charles II, Cardinal Richelieu, Omar Khayyam) or ineffectual charmers and gigolos." He played Joseph Smith in the film Brigham Young (Henry Hathaway, 1940) starring Tyrone Power, and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (Henry King, 1944) as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), starring Gregory Peck. Price established himself in the Film Noir Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944), opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (Rowland V. Lee, 1939). The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). He reprised this role in a vocal cameo at the end of the horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948). Price reunited with Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) and Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946). There were also many villainous roles in Film Noir thrillers like The Web (Michael Gordon, 1947), The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, 1947) starring Henry Fonda, and The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949), with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton. He was also active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
Vincent Price's first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the biopic The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, 1950). He did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), one of his favourite film roles. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror film roles with the leading role in House of Wax (Andre DeToth, 1953) as a homicidal sculptor, the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office. His next roles were The Mad Magician (John Brahm, 1954), the monster movie The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959). That same year, he starred in a pair of thrillers by producer-director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill (1959) as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler (1959) as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense. Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). About this time he also appeared in episodes of a number of television shows, including Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and General Electric Theater. In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of low-budget filmmaking successes with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) starting with the House of Usher (1960), which earned over $2 million at the box office in the United States and led to the subsequent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). He then starred in The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo B. Ragona, 1964), the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel 'I Am Legend' and portrayed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves, 1968) set during the English Civil War. He starred in comedy films such as Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Norman Taurog, 1966). In 1968 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day, opposite Patricia Routledge. In the 1960s, Price began his role as a guest on the television game show Hollywood Squares, becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980. Price made many guest-star appearances in television shows during the decade, including Daniel Boone, Batman, F Troop, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1964, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still in operation as of 2016.
During the early 1970s, Vincent Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes. Price appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Robert Fuest, 1972), and Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973), in which he portrayed one of a pair of serial killers. That same year, he appeared as himself in the TV film Mooch Goes to Hollywood (Richard Erdman, 1971), written by Jim Backus. He was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven. Price recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone. In 1975, Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared together in an international stage adaptation of 'Ardèle' which played in the US as well as in London at the Queen's Theatre. During this run, Browne and Price starred together in the BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf (1975). He greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture. Price provided a monologue for the Alice Cooper song 'Devil's Food' (1975), and he appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program Tales of the Unexplained. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in an episode of The Muppet Show. In 1977, he began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play 'Diversions and Delights', written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy and set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed the role of Wilde at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. He eventually performed the play worldwide. Victoria Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.
In 1981, Vincent Price played Grover in the original stage musical production of The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover. In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price. He appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a 1982 television production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple. In 1982, Price provided the spoken-word sequence to the end of the Michael Jackson song 'Thriller'. In 1983, he played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death (Ray Cameron, 1983). He appeared in House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker, 1983) with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. He had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up. One of his last major roles, and one of his favourites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker, 1986). From 1981 to 1989, Price hosted the television series Mystery! In 1984, Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', and the narrator for 'The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'. In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987), a story of two sisters living in Maine facing the end of their days. His performance in The Whales of August earned the only award nomination of his career: an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), starring Johnny Depp. Vincent Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, the poet and columnist Vincent Barrett Price, and divorced in 1948. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, the inspirational speaker Victoria Price (1962), naming her after Price's first major success in the play 'Victoria Regina'. The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974, who appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991. He was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, and he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s. He was an honorary board member of PFLAG and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements discussing AIDS. His daughter has said that she is "as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men." Price suffered from emphysema, a result of being a lifelong smoker, and Parkinson's disease; his symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, making it necessary to cut his filming schedule short. His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery! in 1989. He died, at age 82, of lung cancer in 1993, at UCLA Medical Center. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honour.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Aaaaand I'm done! Thank God for the extended deadline on this swap, or else I would have been pulling crochet all-nighters, and lord only knows that's definitely how I should be spending my time.
The deets (also on rav):
These are somewhat loosely based on this pattern, which is in German. Mine are different around the edges, and I added a back, which I'll describe here. I worked up a loose translation a while back and then made some mods so they could be functional potholders (i.e. not all burny). First I crocheted the main color front piece, then the back (which I don't have any pictures of and I'm totally kicking myself over) is the contrast color in a plain circle of dc's, and then I attached the two pieces with the contrast color and crocheted in to the center somewhat like what the German pattern tells you to do. I'll try to write these directions up more coherently some time soon, but I'm not making any promises on that since I'm really short on time lately.
These are knit picks wool of the andes, so 100% wool, crocheted with an E hook.
Burny McTan Face didn't know that his quiet time on the beach would turn into a fight for his lunch.The trio of hungry birds is terrorizing the terrified tourist for his savoury salty snack. In a desperate attempt to save his precious, he shouts, ''Step away from the pretzel, you bunch of begging belligerent birds!''
NEW WESTMINSTER SUB 6
1922 to 1951
F (Post Office formerly named) - Central Park (2) second opening (1 December 1911 to 1 January 1922) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
C (Post Office renamed) - Vancouver Sub 88 (1951 to present) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
Link to information on New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
The Postmaster at New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was B. F. Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900) who served from - 19 January 1926 to 17 January 1958.
Burns "Burnys" Frederick Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900 in Avonmore, Ontario, Canada – d. 18 January 1958 at age 57 in Vancouver, B.C.) his occupation was listed as "Druggist".
His wife was - Mabel Ethel Long (b. December 1899 in Charfield, England – Deceased) - they were married - 7 November 1928 in Vancouver, B.C.
The New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was located in Burns "Burnys" Frederick Whitteker's Central Park Pharmacy Drugstore on 4525 Kingsway in Burnaby, B.C. in the 1930's.
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/ • NEW WESTMINSTER • B.C. • / JAN 7 / 44 / SUB. No 6 / - cds hammer (B-1) - not listed in the Proof Book - this is the LRD (7 January 1944) for this hammer.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W 235. Photo: Universal International.
American actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine Vincent Price (1911-1993) was best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price Sr., president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price. His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price who invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar–based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune. Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Art History from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After teaching for a year, he entered the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theatre, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. He had a five-play contract, beginning with 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play 'Victoria Regina', which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria. Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his film debut in Service de Luxe (Rowland V. Lee, 1938) opposite Constance Bennett. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "After that, he reprised his stage role as Master Hammon in an early television production of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday'. For one reason or another, Vincent was henceforth typecast as either historical figures (Sir Walter Raleigh, Duke of Clarence, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, King Charles II, Cardinal Richelieu, Omar Khayyam) or ineffectual charmers and gigolos." He played Joseph Smith in the film Brigham Young (Henry Hathaway, 1940) starring Tyrone Power, and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (Henry King, 1944) as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), starring Gregory Peck. Price established himself in the Film Noir Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944), opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (Rowland V. Lee, 1939). The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). He reprised this role in a vocal cameo at the end of the horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948). Price reunited with Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) and Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946). There were also many villainous roles in Film Noir thrillers like The Web (Michael Gordon, 1947), The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, 1947) starring Henry Fonda, and The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949), with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton. He was also active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
Vincent Price's first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the biopic The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, 1950). He did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), one of his favourite film roles. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror film roles with the leading role in House of Wax (Andre DeToth, 1953) as a homicidal sculptor, the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office. His next roles were The Mad Magician (John Brahm, 1954), the monster movie The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959). That same year, he starred in a pair of thrillers by producer-director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill (1959) as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler (1959) as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense. Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). About this time he also appeared in episodes of a number of television shows, including Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and General Electric Theater. In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of low-budget filmmaking successes with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) starting with the House of Usher (1960), which earned over $2 million at the box office in the United States and led to the subsequent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). He then starred in The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo B. Ragona, 1964), the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel 'I Am Legend' and portrayed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves, 1968) set during the English Civil War. He starred in comedy films such as Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Norman Taurog, 1966). In 1968 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day, opposite Patricia Routledge. In the 1960s, Price began his role as a guest on the television game show Hollywood Squares, becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980. Price made many guest-star appearances in television shows during the decade, including Daniel Boone, Batman, F Troop, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1964, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still in operation as of 2016.
During the early 1970s, Vincent Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes. Price appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Robert Fuest, 1972), and Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973), in which he portrayed one of a pair of serial killers. That same year, he appeared as himself in the TV film Mooch Goes to Hollywood (Richard Erdman, 1971), written by Jim Backus. He was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven. Price recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone. In 1975, Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared together in an international stage adaptation of 'Ardèle' which played in the US as well as in London at the Queen's Theatre. During this run, Browne and Price starred together in the BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf (1975). He greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture. Price provided a monologue for the Alice Cooper song 'Devil's Food' (1975), and he appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program Tales of the Unexplained. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in an episode of The Muppet Show. In 1977, he began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play 'Diversions and Delights', written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy and set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed the role of Wilde at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. He eventually performed the play worldwide. Victoria Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.
In 1981, Vincent Price played Grover in the original stage musical production of The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover. In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price. He appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a 1982 television production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple. In 1982, Price provided the spoken-word sequence to the end of the Michael Jackson song 'Thriller'. In 1983, he played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death (Ray Cameron, 1983). He appeared in House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker, 1983) with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. He had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up. One of his last major roles, and one of his favourites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker, 1986). From 1981 to 1989, Price hosted the television series Mystery! In 1984, Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', and the narrator for 'The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'. In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987), a story of two sisters living in Maine facing the end of their days. His performance in The Whales of August earned the only award nomination of his career: an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), starring Johnny Depp. Vincent Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, the poet and columnist Vincent Barrett Price, and divorced in 1948. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, the inspirational speaker Victoria Price (1962), naming her after Price's first major success in the play 'Victoria Regina'. The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974, who appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991. He was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian, and he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s. He was an honorary board member of PFLAG and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements discussing AIDS. His daughter has said that she is "as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men." Price suffered from emphysema, a result of being a lifelong smoker, and Parkinson's disease; his symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, making it necessary to cut his filming schedule short. His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery! in 1989. He died, at age 82, of lung cancer in 1993, at UCLA Medical Center. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honour.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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1.Cut out shape of world map
2. Glue to back.
3. Get Sunburned.
4. Take photo.
I jest, I jest....
I was gonna edit this in major mega detail with peely burny skin and make it look really realistic, then I realised it's EFFING impossible!!...for me. So I settled with this.
The lighter colour is my real skin colour, though it does look awfully pale here.
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the wind outside is a bit too howly for the Uglies' good tonight, so they're snuggled together, watching television with me.
This one here is the #1 reason I didn't use elann sonata for this project. Love love love these two colors together.
Aaaaand I'm done! Thank God for the extended deadline on this swap, or else I would have been pulling crochet all-nighters, and lord only knows that's definitely how I should be spending my time.
The deets (also on rav):
These are somewhat loosely based on this pattern, which is in German. Mine are different around the edges, and I added a back, which I'll describe here. I worked up a loose translation a while back and then made some mods so they could be functional potholders (i.e. not all burny). First I crocheted the main color front piece, then the back (which I don't have any pictures of and I'm totally kicking myself over) is the contrast color in a plain circle of dc's, and then I attached the two pieces with the contrast color and crocheted in to the center somewhat like what the German pattern tells you to do. I'll try to write these directions up more coherently some time soon, but I'm not making any promises on that since I'm really short on time lately.
These are knit picks wool of the andes, so 100% wool, crocheted with an E hook.
Now come into my black lodge and...um...not really sure how to finish that one. Not really sure I want anyone to come to my black lodge. Almost certain I don't want to be in it myself. It's kinda weird and the gum is pretty old and fousty. I do like the flooring though. Hence the pants. It's not exactly the same but close enough.
The weirdest things happen in this weird place of weird weirdness and peculiarity. I mean curtains everywhere. The walls are covered in them. And you know what's weird? No fire extinguishers. These things are a fire hazard. They could go fouf or prouff or shamouf, you know one of those burny inferno noises. There's no fire exits either. This place is a death trap.
Of course the deathiest trap is in the shape of something that looks just like myself but does this weird smiley thing. Bearing those teeth with a fixed grimace that's painfully stuck on the face. Almost like a death mask, with wide, unblinking eyes that look right through you into your soul.
I'm pretty certain that's how I look at work.
Dear god nooo. He's chasing me....oh and he's stopped. Looks like my evil doppelgänger doesn't like to run either. Think the rest of this pursuit will be leisurely and strollful. That's fine with me. Just watch me power walk into oblivion.
New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6, B.C. to New Westminster, B.C.
2 cents local letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 12 cents
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NEW WESTMINSTER SUB 6
1922 to 1951
F (Post Office formerly named) - Central Park (2) second opening (1 December 1911 to 1 January 1922) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
C (Post Office renamed) - Vancouver Sub 88 (1951 to present) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
Link to information on New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
The Postmaster at New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was B. F. Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900) who served from - 19 January 1926 to 17 January 1958.
Burns "Burnys" Frederick Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900 in Avonmore, Ontario, Canada – d. 18 January 1958 at age 57 in Vancouver, B.C.) his occupation was listed as "Druggist".
His wife was - Mabel Ethel Long (b. December 1899 in Charfield, England – Deceased) - they were married - 7 November 1928 in Vancouver, B.C.
The New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was located in Burns "Burnys" Frederick Whitteker's Central Park Pharmacy Drugstore on 4525 Kingsway in Burnaby, B.C. in the 1930's.
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sent from - / • NEW WESTMINSTER • B.C. • / AP 3 / 33 / SUB. No 6 / - cds hammer (B-1) - not listed in the Proof Book - this is the ERD (3 April 1933) for this hammer.
/ R / NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. / SUB No. 6 / ORIGINAL No. (871) / - registered marking (R Box-1) first line in italic (slanted) in bluish green ink. This is the ERD for this handstamp (3 April 1933).
arrival - / NEW WESTMINSTER / AP 3 / 33 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp.
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Registered letter sent by - J. W. Grundy / 3331 Sussex Ave / New Westminster, B.C. (Burnaby)
James William Grundy (b. 29 Jul 1879 in England - d. 7 Dec 1964 at age 85 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) - his occupation was a painter.
His wife - Janet "Crook" Grundy (b. 22 Jun 1880 in England - d. 30 Dec 1942 at age 62 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) - her occupation was a dressmaker.
They were married - 13 Nov 1916 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Addressed to: Alfred W. McLeod / 52 Sixth St. / New Westminster, B.C.
Alfred Wellington McLeod (b. 1880 in Ontario - d. 1936 in Scotland). He was president of "The Insurance Men" Ltd in New Westminster / Burnaby, B.C.
His wife was - Ruth "Temple" McLeod (b. 8 Dec 1880 in Santa Rosa, California - d. 6 Dec 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Alfred W. McLeod was born in Ontario in 1880. He was educated in New Westminster and in this city established his first insurance business in 1899. After selling his first business in 1912, he incorporated his next insurance business, Alfred W. McLeod Ltd., in 1917. Although Alfred McLeod died in Scotland in 1936, the company that he founded continued and thrived. Eventually it added real estate, commercial construction, corporate management, property management, and all classes of insurance to its services. Under its corporate management function, the company became the agent for a number of other businesses including the Westminster Trust Co. Three directors of Alfred W. McLeod Ltd., Frederick Temple Keely, Andrew Kirk Gerow, and Henry L.W. Tupper, became directors of the Westminster Trust Co. Initially calling itself the "Insurance Men," the McLeod Company's later motto became "The House of Complete Property Service." The ownership of the Company eventually passed into the hands of a British peer, the Duke of Westminster. The Duke of Westminster subsequently sold the company and it was amalgamated into Westland Insurance Group Ltd. in 1993.
PHOTO - Alfred W. McLeod Ltd. possibly in the Westminster Trust Building at 713 Columbia Street. This picture might have been taken just after the move to the Westminster Trust Building. The calendar on the support says "50-52" which may be referring to their old address on 6th Street. They were located at 50 - 6th St. from 1920-1946 and at 713 Columbia St. from 1947-1973. The 1947 B.C. Directory states: "McLeod, Alfred W. Ltd. 'The Insurance Men' Insurance, Loans, Real Estate and Rentals". Ad in the classified section reads, "Forty-Eight Years of Steady Progress - 1899-1947." The 1899 date refers to members of the McLeod family who were insurance agents. Alfred W. McLeod is not listed as a company until 1906. Link to the PHOTO - www.nwheritage.org/database/images/193_web.jpg
It's been a while since I've gotten my SP done early enough to have the sun in it. I love working with sunlight, its so bright and brings out cool details that I don't think artificial light can do. I like working with high contrast-y photos.
Anyway. This is it for today. Nothing really special and no real meaning behind it... I just liked the way the way the light was hitting the couch.
Today was hard. I was actually really busy at work, which is a change from the past few days where it's been so slow and I've been bored out of my mind. It was a good thing it was busy because I feel like I was two seconds from crying all day. My emotions feel so raw and right in my face. I talked to the nurse who I work with who I love, she's like one of my second mom's, and I got to talk about my Nana and how I was feeling and was able to cry a bit.. which helped with the worry that I was going to lose it at any second. After that I just felt drained. You know that type of tired you feel after you cry really hard? I almost like that feeling if its night time and I'm going to bed because I know I'll pass out cold, but when it's 10am, it makes the rest of the day hard to get though, especially with my burny eyes. I can't wait until I feel rested again... and I'm going to go work on that right now by taking a nap. Is the week over yet?!
The Hoher Dachstein at 2995m is the highest peak in the Northern Limestone Alps and the Hallstatter Glacier seen here is one of the few remaining ice caps in the area. It is the combination of ice and limestone which has lead to the labyrinth of caves below. The caves of the Dachstein plataeu have recently been dissolved by the retreating glaciers spring thaws creating deep and arduous pots and cave systems. To bottom these caves it will often take around 20 hours, to explore them further, whole days underground.
This year saw frenzied activity in Smeltzwasserhohle (or 'Wot U Got Pot' - more info here ), as well as smaller efforts on Burnies Pot, Orkan and Magnum Hohle.
New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6, B,C., Canada to Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 July 1939
17 cents Empire letter rate for 8 ounces + 10 cents registration fee + (1 cent overpayment) = 28 cents
3 cents first ounce
14 cents for next 7 ounces @ 2 cents per ounce
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NEW WESTMINSTER SUB 6
1922 to 1951
F (Post Office formerly named) - Central Park (2) second opening (1 December 1911 to 1 January 1922) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
C (Post Office renamed) - Vancouver Sub 88 (1951 to present) - Link - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
Link to information on New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
The Postmaster at New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was B. F. Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900) who served from - 19 January 1926 to 17 January 1958.
Burns "Burnys" Frederick Whitteker (b. 18 July 1900 in Avonmore, Ontario, Canada – d. 18 January 1958 at age 57 in Vancouver, B.C.) his occupation was listed as "Druggist".
His wife was - Mabel Ethel Long (b. December 1899 in Charfield, England – Deceased) - they were married - 7 November 1928 in Vancouver, B.C.
The New Westminster Sub Post Office No. 6 was located in "Burnys" Whitteker's Central Park Pharmacy Drugstore on 4525 Kingsway in Burnaby, B.C. in the 1930's.
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sent from - / • NEW WESTMINSTER • B.C. • / JUL 24 / 39 / SUB. No 6 / - cds hammer (B-1) - not listed in the Proof Book.
/ R / NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. / SUB No. 6 / ORIGINAL No. (559) / - registered marking (R Box-1) first line in italic (slanted) in bluish green ink.
via - / NEW WESTMINSTER / 18 / JUL 24 / 39 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp.
via - / VANCOUVER / JUL 24 / 39 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL CANADA • / 16 JUL 26 / B & F DIV / - cds transit - - Montreal British Mail Branch cancels - “British & Foreign-Airmail” and “British & Foreign-Registered”.
arrival - / MUIZENBERG / 11 AUG * 39 / - cds receiver backstamp - (it took 3+ weeks by sea)
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Registered letter addressed to: Mr. Charles J. Stiles / 9 Beach Court / Muizenberg / Cape Town / South Africa
Muizenberg (Dutch for "mice mountain") is a beach-side suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated where the shore of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast. It is considered to be the main surfing spot in Cape Town and is currently home to a surfing community, centered on the popular 'Surfer's Corner'.
Day Thirty One:
Ow, ow, ow, burny hot hot hot. Gawd no this isn't supposed to be happening like this. I'm almost certain it's an allergic reaction. It's all fiery and glowing and summoning beings from beyond. This is why you shouldn't move your lips when you're reading. When it comes to a spell that apparently does count as casting it. It looked like a big cook book. Only a one star cook book but it was a big star. Five points on it but I think it was upside down.
It looked like a Halloweeny recipe. Weird, strange, peculiar ingredients. I didn't know worms even had toenails and I really don't want to be the one to try and take the testicles off that beastie. Though it was only a myth too. It'll be a mythes once it loses the contents of it's wrinkly handbag down below.
I'm not even sure what it's summoning. Something very big, very ominous, very hungry from the rumbling sounds I'm hea....oh wait that last one was me. Could always do with a snack. Oh...ah...yes...I see where I'm standing. Under a portal where a beastie of unknown size and shape is going to fall through. It could be a horny thing and I know I don't like the idea of being impaled on a horny beastie.
Gawd how do you turn this thing off. It's getting bigger and hotter and even more swirly.
If I die please someone delete my interweb history.
Day Eighteen:
So. Now we know. There is always that moment when a creature of the night leaps upon you from the dark and shadowy shadows and you have no clue what brand they are. Are they some sort of ghoul? Did they shuffle like the undead? Did they swoop down from the night and use their adorable batness to seduce you? Or did they chase you across the moors under the light of the Hunters Moon and rip a great bit huge chunk of flesh from your favourite body?
I think we know which one it was.
Good news, sunlight is never going to be an issue beyond the existing issue of it being too toasty and too burny. But not the explode into fiery dust sort of burny. Not so good news, silver jewellery is going to be so much harder to wear now due to the burning of the flesh. Oh yes, there is burning just a different kind of burning.
That does seem to be about it. It's not as bad as one might think. Apart from the ravenous hunger to devour the meat from your bones. But then afterwards I can always play fetch with them before curling up for a well deserved sleep on the floor...because a couple of nights a month I'm not allowed up on the furniture.