Vincent Price's role...
Is it big, small, or just in between?
shareHis has somewhat of a supporting role, but it is as large as Bettes, Lillians and Annes. I always thought he should have gotten an Academy Award nom out of it. You should watch the film, it's a simple story, but very beautifully filmed.
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This was his last role except for his bit in Edward Scissorhands. I always thought it was nice he got to go out with a couple of good parts in good movies.
I love that Vincent Price ended his career with relative dignity in this film and "Edward Scissorhands." Although I love his horror films, many of his movies from the '70s and '80s weren't deserving of his talent. He was so much more than a villain, as this film proves.
shareI love it when he tells Lillian Gish: "I have spent my life visiting friends" he puts so much into that moment....
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Yes, that's a beautiful scene! I love that Vincent Price's final roles were so memorable, as opposed to some of his more forgettable horror films in the '70s and '80s.
shareAgreed. Price began jobbing his roles in the late 70's/early 80's, but towards the end, he suddenly began putting alot of heart and poingency into his roles (edward scissorhands was already mentioned.)
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Indeed. I'm glad he left a few excellent footnotes to his career after slumming it for so long. Pretty much the trash he made in the '70s and '80s has been forgotten (and rightly so), but gems like this and "Edward Scissorhands" are beautiful codas to a career of great highs and a couple lows.
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I remember seeing him in movies like Laura before the horror movies. He reminds me of John Carradine.
John Carradine had a beautiful speaking voice fit for Shakespeare. He ended up making potboilers probably to pay child support. He had several sons by various ex-wives.
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I really did like the Mr. Phibes films and "Theater of Blood" with Diana Rigg (and Coral Browne who he eventually married) -- those were in the 1970s. And I also liked "House of Long Shadows" in the 1980s where he got together with some favorites including Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. And. of course, he was also the voice of Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
A good man and impressive actor.
I agree that Vincent Price´s supporting role even though small is exquisite and so is Lillian Gish´s lead part, who is the heart and soul of the film. Ann Sothern´s supporting role is good but not deserving of an academy award nomination, however she was nominated in recognition of her long film career starting in the 1930s, she had never before been nominated and this was her last film.
Bette Davis´ acting is not perceived as good as Lillian Gish´s because she plays the role of someone blind and in brittle health, who is difficult, bitter and unlikeable. One has to think that Davis didn´t have to try hard to play her part since she was someone already bitter in real life. She had recently suffered a big shock and disappointment by the very unkind and hideous book written by her daughter about her (in 1985), let alone her brittle health battling breast cancer, having suffered a mastectomy and a stroke in 1983. The same year that this film was released, Davis´ book memoirs, ¨This ´n that,¨ was published and in this book she writes a letter to her daughter in reply to her daughter´s book. Two years later, in 1989, Davis died from breast cancer.