Vincent Price Books

For many years, this was the only biography of the renowned actor/gourmet cook/art authority, and if you don't know anything at all about Vincent Price, it might suffice. I bought it when it first came out, but even then I recognized it as basically a cut-and-paste job (literally -- the text blocks sit askew on some pages like they were manually pasted up in someone's dining room) culled from any number of press sources that gives precious little insight into Price, as either a man or an actor. Worse, the write-ups of his films are so smugly dismissive that one wonders why the authors bothered publishing a book about a figure they clearly seem to disdain. This book is a prime example of the kind of slipshod 1970s "film journalism" that thankfully is no longer acceptable for publication.