Editing Vincent Price (section)

==Personal life==
Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress [[Edith Barrett]]; they had one son, poet and columnist [[Vincent Barrett Price]]. Edith and Price divorced in 1948. Price married [[Mary Grant Price|Mary Grant]] in 1949, and they had a daughter, inspirational speaker [[Victoria Price]], on April 27, 1962,<ref>{{cite book|last=Price|first=Victoria|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|year=1999|publisher=St. Martins Press|isbn=978-0312242732|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/235 235]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/235}}</ref> naming her after Price's first major success in the play ''Victoria Regina''.<ref>[http://vincentprice.org/bios/victoriassecret.html Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114102937/http://vincentprice.org/bios/victoriassecret.html |date=November 14, 2012 }}, Vincentprice.org. Retrieved October 10, 2012.</ref> The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress [[Coral Browne]] in 1974; she had appeared as one of his victims in ''Theatre of Blood'' (1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991.<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/who-was-australian-actress-coral-browne-hollywood-star/101654722 Zengerer, Catherine & Kesteven, Sophie, "Australian actor Coral Browne went from humble beginnings to a 1940s Hollywood star"]. ''ABC Radio National''. September 14, 2024</ref>

Victoria Price's biography ''Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography'' (1999) details Price's early [[antisemitism]]<ref>{{cite magazine | first=Charles |last=Winecoff |title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography | magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | date=October 22, 1999 | url=https://ew.com/article/1999/10/22/vincent-price-daughters-biography/ | access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref> and initial admiration for [[Adolf Hitler]]. According to his daughter: "When he went to Germany and Austria as a young man, he was struck by a lot of things going on during the [[Weimar Republic]] and the dissolution of the [[German Empire|empire]]... So when Hitler came into power, instead of seeing him as a dangerous force, he was sort of swept up in this whole idea that Hitler was going to bring German pride back."<ref name="liberal"/> However, Price became a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] after becoming friends with [[New York intellectuals]] such as [[Dorothy Parker]] and [[Lillian Hellman]] in the 1930s,<ref name="liberal">{{cite news |title=Some Scary Secrets in Vincent Price Biography|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1999-10-15-9910130899-story.html |access-date=November 19, 2020 |work=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]] |date=October 15, 1999}}</ref> so much so that he was "[[Hollywood blacklist|greylisted]]" under [[McCarthyism]] in the 1950s for having been a prewar [[antifascism|"premature anti-Nazi"]]. After being unable to find work for a year, he agreed to requests by the [[FBI]] that he sign a "secret oath" to save his career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoriaprice.com/vincent-price-a-daughters-biography|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|website=Victoria Price|access-date=May 5, 2020|archive-date=December 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208173253/https://www.victoriaprice.com/vincent-price-a-daughters-biography|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Susan |title=Classic Hollywood: Vincent Price screenings at Aero, LACMA |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-oct-10-la-et-classic-hollywood-20111010-story.html |access-date=November 19, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 10, 2011}}</ref> Victoria said that her father became so liberal that "one of my brother's earliest memories is when [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s death was announced, my father fell backward off the sofa sobbing."<ref name="liberal"/>

Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison at the end of an episode of ''The Saint'',<ref>[http://wn.com/Vincent_Price_On_Racism_And_Religious_Prejudice Price]. Wn.com. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref> which aired on [[NBC Radio]] on July 30, 1950,<ref>[http://www.saint.org/radio.htm "The Saint on Old-Time Radio"], Saint.org. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref>
claiming that Americans must fight against it because such prejudices within the United States fuel support for the nation's enemies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vincent Price On Racism And Religious Prejudice| date=December 28, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMCqOmsMB4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/mrMCqOmsMB4| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=May 27, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was later appointed to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board under the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] administration; he called the appointment "kind of a surprise, since I am a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6Mnh1z81YEC&q=Vincent+Price+Democrat&pg=PT637|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|access-date=October 7, 2012|isbn=9781429979481|last1=Price|first1=Victoria|year= 2011|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref>

Price was supportive of his daughter Victoria when she came out as a lesbian and joined [[PFLAG]] as an honorary board member. He was critical of [[Anita Bryant]]'s anti-[[gay rights]] campaign in the 1970s. Price was also one of the first celebrities to film a [[public service announcement]] to help allay public fears about [[HIV/AIDS]].<ref name="daughter confirms">{{Cite news|first=Colin|last=Murphy|url=https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025|title=Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms Her Famous Father Was Bisexual|work=[[Queerty]]|date=October 25, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name=VPriceBio>{{cite book|first=Victoria|last=Price|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|location=New York City|date=1999|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/305 305]|isbn=978-0-312-24273-2|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/305}}</ref><ref name=VPriceLGBT>{{Cite news|first=Dan|last=Avery|url=http://www.newnownext.com/vincent-princes-daughter-confirms-he-was-bisexual-and-a-pretty-awesome-dad/10/2015|title=Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms He Was Bisexual – And A Pretty Awesome Dad|date=October 22, 2015|agency=NewNowNext.com|access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name=VPrice1>{{Cite news|first=Colin|last=Murphy|url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/10/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-fathers-bisexuality|title=Vincent Price's daughter confirms her father's bisexuality|work=Boom Magazine|publisher=LGBTQNation.com|date=October 22, 2015|access-date=October 28, 2015}}</ref> In an interview in 2015, Victoria said that her father confided in her his [[bisexuality|intimate, though nonsexual, relationships with men]] when she came out to him as a lesbian.<ref name=VPriceLGBT/><ref name=VPrice1/>