Vincent Price on The Tonight Show, 9-27-73

Vincent Price appearance with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, Sept. 27th, 1973.

[@Del-yv1qy]

You could not possibly dislike Vincent Price.What a joy he was.

[@drgangrene]

True! Such a great guy! I've never heard anything negative about him!

[@robertdiotalevi285]

👍

[@andydixon2980]

He was a Hitler sympathizer.

[@seannborba8416]

Vincent price just oozes charisma

[@gwenking7700]

I wish more stars had Vincent's kindness, charm and charisma. You are sorely missed ❤

[@doubleg137]

If there was one actor I wish I could have met it is Vincent Price. What a great actor!!!

[@drgangrene]

Me too, totally agree. Never heard an unkind word about him.

[@jmromero6381]

My dad met him once, for a few minutes. Apart from how gracious Price was, dad recalled two things. First, how tall he was. Second, he was impeccably dressed...but wearing silken bedroom slippers.

[@wolftracks9010]

I did meet Vincent and spoke to him at NE Missouri State University, when he was speaking. It was a wonderful time and he was so amicable and generous. He answered many questions and gave his views on many different topics to all the students. The year was 1980 (give or take). A great person!

[@laurencehoefler8711]

My mother saw him at an appearance at Millersville Univ. in PA and told him that my son likes you. That's for sure, and I always will. I have an 8X10 autographed photo of him. He gave us so many movie roles for us to enjoy; over and over and never tire of him.

[@margaretgarnto6272]

I also wish I could have met Vincent Price personally, but I only met him in dreams that I had back in the 1970s, beginning with a scary dream that I had about him in January of 1973, in which we were in a Haunted house setting and he said something that I couldn't quite recall, and made the room go dark and gave me quite a scare. I dreamed I told him about myself and my visual impairment, and the light returned to the room we were in. In that same dream, we talked for a while, I started to leave, and he called me back to where he was sitting in his favorite chair, then he gave me a kiss on the right cheek and said goodbye to me before I left the room.

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Vincent off-screen was a gem of a gentleman, and on-screen he'd rip out your throat laughing while doing it.

[@drgangrene]

Very true!

[@robertdiotalevi285]

@@drgangrene 👍

[@paulsilletti9263]

The great Vince Price

[@louannchipman1749]

Elegant, refined, beautiful man and amazing actor!!! Rest In Peace, Mr. Price!

[@Del-yv1qy]

What a wonderful man Vincent Price was.

[@teestjulian]

When it comes to art... Only buy what you really like.😊

[@drgangrene]

Sounds reasonable!

[@sailaway0013]

He reminds me of one of my uncles. Positive, class and quiet sophisticated manner. He was a great actor.

[@jeffwalsh6015]

Vincent was a legend in 1973, 20 years before he died!!

[@cherylbowker3717]

I met Vincent Price,he is a nice man.

[@Vampire-666.]

Vincent Price is my favourite actor ever!!!!!!!!

[@glamdolly30]

If you haven't seen 'The Comedy of Terrors', with VP, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff, you're in for a treat. It's a wonderful comedy, as the title suggests. Vincent was wonderful in it!

[@drgangrene]

Oh I've made a video for every Price feature film! I agree, Comedy of Terrors is fantastic. I hosted it to a packed house in Louisville with Sara Karloff as special guest. Great film.

[@MyREDTAIL]

Who can ever forget Vincent Price Voicing the Michael Jackson;s THRILLER Music Video etc. What a speaking Voice he had also.

[@drgangrene]

He sure did!

[@MerkinMuffly]

That album is the least of his accomplishments

[@drgangrene]

Maybe so but it's still very cool and I love that I get to hear Vincent's voice on the radio every year, a pretty cool testament to an iconic actor.

[@libertyeven4u459]

Remember he did the black widow with Alice Cooper?

[@neilsnow7973]

I love how this has the old commercials. Also, I loved watching Price in movies and TV when I was a kid. Amazing, and his voice is unmistakable.

[@drgangrene]

Yeah his voice was gold.

[@Mr.Big-Gunz]

Mr.Price was a great man,& he had class, & i wish i could have met him and thanked him for all his amazing movies, his horror movies were the best i ever watched, there will never be another actor who even comes close to achieving all the things he did, actor, gormet chef, art collector/ critic, radio personality,& t.v.star,& so much more, R.I.P. we miss u Vincent...

[@justinhamlin7011]

Theater of Blood is such an underrated movie!

[@teestjulian]

When I was a young child in the 70s, I loved both Carson and Price... My dad looked like Vincent Price

[@drgangrene]

Very cool!

[@naly202]

Dragonwyck (1:22) is one of the most beautiful movies I've seen (sets, costumes, music, and Vinny in his younger years - absolutely fascinating )

[@drgangrene]

Its a really underrated movie that more folks should talk about.

[@naly202]

@@drgangrene indeed. Unfortunately, fascinating as they are, his Poe movies tend to get repetitive : he or smb else goes crazy and sets fire to the place, etc. It's very refreshing sometimes to see him in a slightly differenr role. In Dragonwick he reminds me of Heathcliff or Mr Rochester. I also love him in Baron of Arizona and Champagne for Caesar (a genuine comedic role- His reactions in remind me of Hades from Disney's Hercules. Cool and smiling then a fit of rage, then "I'm calm now, grrr"

[@catsarkioja7423]

Dragonwyck and house on haunted hill are my favorite movies of his. He did a wonderful job with the characters and he looked gorgeous! So much talent!

[@barbaraarnzen5181]

True! Thanks for reminding me about that one!!! 🎥👍

[@anthonyleighton4754]

What a character ....... Makes any film he is in worth watching.....

[@cmitchell1024]

Except for "Escapes" he is only in it for 16 minutes.

[@carolynreese5977]

Is that Mama Cass? Makes me cry. They are all gone now but always good to see Vincent Price!

[@drgangrene]

+Carolyn Reese Yep, that is her.

[@brettthebad]

I know. Me, too.

[@laurallama73]

Carolyn Reese yessss! What a treat to see them both here! I found this vid after watching Vincent Price in, “The Masque of the Red Death,” but, after this video, I continued down the “rabbit hole” to find one of Mama Cass singing, “Dream a Little Dream.” ❤️😊🎶🎥

[@MyREDTAIL]

May they all RIP

[@robertdiotalevi285]

You must be California Dreamin', sister.

[@dandare1001]

Groovy tunes at 9:00 Vincent Price was a very interesting man. I loved his acting, especially in Batman.

[@drgangrene]

Always great in everything.

[@Sunshine123x]

What a presence he had ❤

[@tdunph4250]

Johnny Carson was awesome! The GOAT!

[@TheMaxou92]

Theatre of Blood is my favorite movie ever and certainly my favorite Price's movie

[@edoedo8686]

Mr Vincent Price, I shall die respecting you and your art.

[@Vampire-666.]

Forever a Vincent Price I will be!!!!!!!!!

[@MyREDTAIL]

Cass Elliot what a fantastic singing Voice she had RIP You are missed by all of your Fans etc.

[@marycollins2163]

Vincent Price was superb and nobody did it like Johnny!

[@mnfrench7603]

Vincent Price, the guy everyone wants to hang out with.

[@martyrose]

He also published a beautiful cookbook that's still useful. Best Queso recipe in the world!

[@fatturbo7680]

I have see loads of his interviews what I really nice guy RIP dude

[@drgangrene]

The best!

[@MyREDTAIL]

I once went into an Art Gallery in NYC and was looking at some of the Paintings, The Clerk, Came over to me and asked how I Liked this one Painting. I told him it was Great, And that you could not even see the Numbers under the paint on it, & he just smiled & walked away laughing , True Story etc.

[@drgangrene]

Very funny!

[@cierakitty]

Always liked him....even now if one of his movies come on.....I am in front of the tv with my popcorn

[@Idahoguy10157]

My favorite person who’s an actor

[@michellepost5232]

God, I was in 7th grade when this episode was created.I could only watch it during summers while I was a child and teenager.

[@drgangrene]

Good ole days!

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

I adore him rip Vincent Price 💜🙏

[@SOLE2SOUL]

In addition to seeing Vincent follow Cass Elliott in her final Tonight Show appearances, it is an incredible treat to hear the full extended jam that played with the More To Come picture. Doc and the band were INCREDIBLE!

[@gargoyleb]

I hope Mr. Price is in a very good place. Talk about someone that just had to be a hoot to just sit and talk to. The road stories he would have. And just his personality. Miss that man.

[@gargoyleb]

PS Thank you for those commercials. I would have been 4 when this aired.

[@drgangrene]

I'd love to have met him.

[@kevinbray3529]

the house on haunted hill is a price classic he looks permantly freaked out

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Theater of Blood is one of my favorite films. So many great actors/actresses..Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Jack Hawkins, Harry Andrews, Madeline Smith and so many more. This is a great video. Thanks for sharing it with us Doc!

[@ATResidentAlienFan]

Love Vincent Price always!! ❤❤️‍🔥💖🥰👏🎉💥

[@TeresaLovesRetro]

Love it!!! Thanks!

[@drgangrene]

+teresa958 Late nite talk shows were so much better back then!

[@TeresaLovesRetro]

drgangrene: Yes they were. I watch a lot of old Johnny Carson clips.

[@richardb6260]

Must be from a network feed. That long musical interlude was where a local station would have inserted local commercials.

[@drgangrene]

Could be!

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Check out the movie Laura. Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson and of course Vincent.

[@danielpinojr.8312]

Omg .. Mama Cass and Vincent Price!!

[@phaedrabacker2004]

Love it.

[@rupertstratton7890]

2 days before I was born.

[@harryjones-haroldine]

Love him 💖

[@glamdolly30]

Vincent Price was 62 here, and had recently fallen head over heels with Australian actress Coral Browne, who he met on the horror movie he's promoting, 'Theatre of Blood'. Vincent had been married to his second wife, costume designer Mary Grant Price for 24 years, and by all accounts, it was a good marriage. They shared a daughter, Victoria, and had collaborated together on various projects among them co-authored cookery books. But when he met Coral Browne is was a coup de foudre - his divorce was inevitable, and it came pretty swiftly. He married Coral Browne the following year 1974, and they were together to her death from breast cancer in 1991.

[@drgangrene]

Yes, Coral was his 3rd marriage.

[@delavalmilker]

I never realized how TALL Price was compared to most people.

[@philiphalpenny3783]

I am sure Vincent & Edward G. Robinson had many talks about their deep love of art history...many actors were gifted painters also like Henry Fonda for example...

[@michaelmerta8956]

Dr Gangrene what an Great handle I Laughed so hard I slitting off the chair.

[@Mab...]

♥️

[@josephdupont]

I saw him in a restaurant in Philadelphia but did not bother him...

[@drgangrene]

Very cool!

[@transgenderz]

my left ear LOVES this interview :P

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Did Vincent cut off the right one?

[@transgenderz]

@@robertdiotalevi285 no, its a joke about how the audio only comes in on one side

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Not now? That is why I did not get it. Thanks. @@transgenderz

[@ducktordoom1398]

I believe he also said that comment about being woken up on a plane being asked if he was Karloff in the Christopher Lee segment of This is Your Life, but added that he was also asked if he was Christopher Lee. Not sure if Vincent Price every told this story again afterwards.

[@LALakersNornIron]

I think he told it on Michael Aspel show in 1984 or 1985.

[@cmitchell1024]

I wish that Vincent Price was in a movie with Phil Harris.

[@char524]

Cass Elliot looked beautiful. Gorgeous hair!

[@cmitchell1024]

(Incase anyone does not know who Phil Harris is) He did Baloo in jungle book 1967.

[@kennyhagan5781]

Theater of Blood, nice movie. It's somewhere here on KZbin.

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

❤ I liked him in Moss Rose with Ethel Barrymore, and Victor Mature.

[@drgangrene]

Good one!

[@peterohalloran5954]

Vicent price look at his face is enough he was made for horror boris Carlof Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing the best vicent had a great voice one of the best

[@phonotical]

haha, he made sure to mention his wife in the film

[@drgangrene]

Oh yeah, he mentioned her often

[@williampgalloway]

I was so sad to see him in Edward Scissorhands as the inventor, he was so old a fraile looking, RIP Vincent Price.

[@PawlaczykMichael]

Its fantastic at that time period was not the tv show on called the night stalker with kolchak

[@drgangrene]

+Pawlaczyk Michael I think Kolchak started the following year. 70s tv is the best!

[@phaedrabacker2004]

Pawlaczyk Michael Darren McGavin

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

This clip is from 1973; Price's observations about art were ironic, given the art boom in the 1980s, which we are still feeling the fallout, 40 years later. There was great art created in the 1980s, but a tremendous amount of trash, as well; animal carcasses floating in tanks of formaldyhyde, bad imitations of Jackson Pollock? The cliche, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is cliche, but it is still true, however, the tale of the Emperor's new clothes is a cautionary message.

[@blondeboywilson9221]

house of seven gables....my favorite

[@drgangrene]

Great choice!

[@roberttolbert4392]

I miss late night TV being FUNNY .

[@phonotical]

long strange ad break

[@WTB-1]

I think Vincent Price was in the top 5 of actors with the highest IQ's. I put Anthony Hopkins at the the top.

[@margaretgarnto6272]

Why was Johnny Carson not showing the paintings in Vincent Price's A Treasury of American Art to the studio audience and viewers who watched that episode of The Tonight Show on TV? He was keeping the pictures in that book to himself instead of showing them to the audience. Where can I find a copy of that book so I can look at those paintings pictured in it?

[@drgangrene]

I'm not sure why. You can find that book pretty easy. Amazon, ebay, etc.

[@panthera2]

If he was in Grand theft auto game or just a video game🎮 voice actor 💎

[@pronemanoldbutyoung5548]

Do you have the Mama Cass interview?❤

[@drgangrene]

I do not, sorry.

[@omusicalachprzykawieiciast7583]

Hi there, I don't really get the joke, the host is saying in 5:45. - something like "To see their picture". Can anybody explain it?

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

Jokes at the expense of Poland and its people have thankfully faded from the scene. Carson's wisecrack suggests--jokingly--that Poland is so bereft of art, it possesses only one picture.

[@omusicalachprzykawieiciast7583]

@@kevinfitzmaurice4072 thank you so much! Now I get it :)

[@jazzmanchgo]

@@kevinfitzmaurice4072 Ah, okay -- I didn't get it either.

[@GAYPPOWER]

😷😍👍👏👏🌹

[@gargoyleb]

The plaid on that jacket had to have needed batteries.

[@drgangrene]

Stylish!

[@TheMetalMachineMusic]

I didn't get the Polish joke. Anyone fill me in?

[@LumpyTheCooked]

“To look at their picture?” Implying that there is only a single painting in all of Poland… Pretty good one, honestly

[@michaelpowell6805]

Vincent lived for another 20 years... Mama Cass less than 1...scary...you know?...

[@robertdiotalevi285]

6 1/2 to 10 1/2 should be edited out.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

'73 ...the 70's 😅 ...carpet has to go ehhh

[@robertturner4526]

Vincent seemed a really genuine man, not to mention a great actor. Cass Elliott would be dead within the next year.

[@artcaldwell3468]

O. My. Dear. I. Could. Use. Money. If. I. Was. Willing. To. Stay. In. The. House. Overnight. If. I. Dear. House. On. Hanted. Hill

[@jefferyburnett5137]

The good ol' days when you could say Indian without somebody biting your head off

[@drgangrene]

+Jeffery Burnett True, the PC terms are ever changing, even in the time I've been doing this

[@robertdiotalevi285]

@poida You must be under 50.

[@robertdiotalevi285]

@poida And you know nothing about American music...Me, I'm just California Dreamin' on Monday, Monday ...

[@robertdiotalevi285]

@poida And you just proved my musical point, my friend. They are Mama Cass musical selections not a place or day. Check out The Mamas and The Papas sometime.

[@SvartElric9]

@poida Yeah, you live up your ass, apparently.

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

I loved Vincent since I was a kid in the 1960's. Vincent and Cass, two of my favorite people.

[@drgangrene]

He was always one of my favorites too.

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Yup!