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Victoria Price to Speak This Sunday at The Ethical Society in St. Louis


Victoria Price will be speaking this Sunday July 1st at 11am at The Ethical Society (9001 Clayton Road St. Louis, MO 63117). This is a free event.

Scientists say we live in an infinitely expanding universe — an idea that they also say our human minds are incapable of comprehending. Essentially, infinity scares the heck out of us. Which is how desire—the yearning for something or someone — became the gasoline in the motor of humanity, filling the empty tanks of our fears and fueling everything from global economies to our most intimate moments.


Taking inspiration from poetry as well as experiences from her own life, Rev. Victoria Price asks us to consider whether this limited view of desire has blinded us to the possibility of a life-changing dialogue with Infinite Love in the farthest spaces of our hearts.

Victoria Price brings her unique story to the national and international stage as an author, inspirational speaker, blogger, designer, artist and art consultant and interspiritual, and interfaith minister. Victoria’s popular blog, Daily Practice of Joy, chronicles her journey back to joy that began in 2011, the year in which the world celebrated the 100th birthday of her father, Vincent Price, with Vincentennial celebrations around the globe.

In 2016, after living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a quarter century, Victoria embarked on an ongoing journey of intentional homelessness, chronicled in her new inspirational memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self. Her critically-acclaimed biography of her father, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, was published in 1999 by St Martin’s Press and 2014 by Open Road Media.

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Watch THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM With Vincent Price’s Daughter Victoria and the Movie Geeks June 30th in St. Louis


ESC Tours Presents a screening of THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM with Victoria Price, the daughter of the film’s star Vincent Price and the author of Vincent Price, a Daughter’s Biography. Co-hosting the event with Victoria will be Tom Stockman, editor of We Are Movie Geeks and director of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration. The event takes place Saturday June 30th at 7pm. Seating is limited so get your tickets soon. Tickets can be purchased HERE. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds.


Join Tom Stockman of We Are Movie Geeks and Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria Price for a fun movie night at Schlafly’s Tap Room. Tom and Victoria will present The Pit and The Pendulum(and other movie surprises) along with fun conversation about the life and film career of St Louis native Vincent Price.

Victoria Price is an author and inspirational speaker. As the author of Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, Victoria is an entertaining lecturer who appears and speaks at horror conventions and film festivals around the world.We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman is an expert on the life and career of Vincent Price. As the force behind the world famous St Louis Vincentennial in 2011, Tom knows as much as anybody about the Master of Menace, Vincent Price.


This promises to be a unique and fun movie event!


Not much of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story which shares its title is on screen besides the eponymous torture device, but thanks to a deft screenplay by Richard Matheson, a pitch-perfect performance by Vincent Price, sure handed direction by Roger Corman, and the inspired casting of Barbara Steele, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is an epic helping of gothic grand guignol that deserves its place on the top of this list. Vincent Price’s Don Medina is a much more lively than his Roderick Usher form the previous year. Price was often accused of overacting, but his frantic scenery-chewing was the correct style for this material. The casting of the otherworldly Barbara Steele shows that American International was properly impressed with her horror debut in the previous year’s BLACK SUNDAY (as they should have been), the Italian film they distributed and this was her stateside debut. Steele is something to behold in THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, slinking and smirking like a deranged cat around the torture chamber, driving Price and the audience to delirium. Steele wasn’t long for Hollywood though. She fled the set of an Elvis film the next year and returned to Europe where she starred in a string of unparalleled gothic horrors. Corman’s camera stays in time to the berserk performances of his two horror stars, as he experiments with odd lens techniques and hallucinatory framing and you’d never guess that THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM was shot on for only $200,000 as it is consistently dazzling to look at with spooky color camerawork by Floyd Crosby and imposing art design by Daniel Haller. Stock footage of the climactic torture sequence would later find its way into the 1966 spy spoof DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE, which also starred Vincent Price as well as GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (also 1966). THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is a fantastic and fascinating viewing experience that just keeps getting better with age.

WAMG Recommends the New Book by Victoria Price, Author of ‘Vincent Price – A Daughter’s Biography’

THE WAY OF BEING LOST, the new book from Victoria Price, Author of ‘Vincent Price – A Daughter’s Biography’ will be available February 14th from Ixia Books. It can be pre-ordered on Amazon HERE

Despite doing “all the right things” and successfully rebuilding her life after a period of deep personal and professional turmoil where she lost almost everything, Victoria Price still felt something profoundly missing from her life. Victoria Price’s THE WAY OF BEING LOST: A Road Trip to My Truest Self (Ixia, February 14, 2018, Hardcover, eBook) is a heartfelt, candid account of rediscovering her joy and purpose after years of struggle.

She realized that in order to live her truest life, she had to be willing to let go of her fears and get lost  in order to find her way back to her truest self. Doing so meant re-programming the messages she had internalized while growing up , taking inspiration from her father Vincent Price’s example. As she got to know her father again through attending horror conventions and celebrations of his life, Victoria saw that Vincent embodied traits that had disappeared from her own life: his love for people and compassion for others, his generosity of spirit and simple kindnesses, his enthusiasm for new experiences, and his love of life. Embracing her own spirituality and letting herself detach from other people’s expectations, Victoria found a new way to embrace life. Highlighting the importance of a daily practice of joy  — the pure and simple delight in being alive –, THE WAY OF BEING LOST is a reminder of the importance of making peace with our past in order to expand our futures and live our most authentic lives.

 

About the Author:

Victoria Price is the author of critically acclaimed VINCENT PRICE: A Daughter’s Biography . A popular inspirational speaker on topics ranging from art collecting and design to creativity and spirituality, as well as the life of her famous father, Price has appeared on Good Morning America, A&E’s Biography, and NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and “Morning Edition” and her work has been featured in USA Today, People, Travel & Leisure, Art & Auction, and the New York Times.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE WAY OF BEING LOST

“The Way of Being Lost takes us on the most exquisite journey that one can take— the road home to  one’s  true self… told through the particular lens of the author’s life. Though it takes great courage to make this trip, the rewards are beyond measure. And in the case of The Way of Being Lost, the journey is  beautifully told, universally relevant,  and deeply meaningful.”

  – Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never Age

“A brilliant account of finding and following one’s inner light by a true pioneer, that will help every reader do the same.“

 – Mike Dooley, New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities and Notes from the Universe

“The Way of Being Lost reminds us that the path to finding one’s self can be the result of first being lost. A poignant story by the privileged

 daughter of a Hollywood icon reflecting back on a life spent lost but realizing life’s greatest lessons often occur when one doesn’t know where they are going.”

–  James R. Doty, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain

“In The Way of Being Lost, Victoria does what all of us wish to do—seeks out her own relationship with spirituality and makes the sacred a part of her everyday life, merely by observing the world around us in all its glory. Her writing shows the struggles of this way of being, but also its rewards.“

– Miranda MacPherson, author of Meditations on Boundless Love

“Victoria Price’s journey is a truly inspiring one. She looks both outward and inward to find joy all around her. She has been a close friend to me for years and I have always been moved by her story and thrilled that she is finally sharing it with the world.“

– Melissa Etheridge, Grammy and Oscar-winning musician and activist

“Victoria Price is a fighter—for her belief in a world that is connected by Love, and for her own connection to Joy.  Her commitment to living as her truest self is an inspiration for us all- match point, Ms Price.”

 – Martina Navratilova, Tennis player, activist, wife, parent, and author of Shape Yourself and other books

“In her inspiring memoir The Way of Being Lost, Victoria Price walks us all back home. A must read for anyone who dares to live a life of joy.”

– Rebecca Campbell, Bestselling author of Light Is The New Black and Rise Sister Rise

“Victoria Price has written a book that will ignite your soul.  With remarkable bravery she shares her story – warts and all – of healing financial and emotional wounds through the daily practice of joy.  Victoria’s core message that it’s never too late to fix old habits that no longer serve us is delivered in such a raw and intimate way that you can’t help but be inspired to embark upon your own journey to joy.”

– Manisha Thakor, Founder, MoneyZen Financial Education

“Victoria Price writes beautifully of our need to forgive ourselves and others if we truly want to find happiness. Her journey through forgiveness and love shines with hard-earned wisdom, which she shares as a generous offering of her broken-open heart.”

– Diane Berke, Founder and Spiritual Director, One Spirit Learning Alliance

“In this spirited, spiritual exploration of her own life and those of her famous parents — one joyous, one terrified — Victoria Price shows us with sword-sharp self-awareness how to face down our fears to find those happy true selves who have been waiting unseen inside us for gosh knows how long.“

 – Anneli Rufus, Author of Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On, Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto, and more

VICTORIA PRICE Attending Vincentennial This Week

Daughter of St Louis film icon Vincent Price is in town for events celebrating his 100th Birthday

Cinema St. Louis is honored to have Victoria Price, daughter of St. Louisan and film icon Vincent Price as part of Vincentennial: The Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration. Ms. Price will participate in a pair of special programs this weekend. The first, exactly 100 years to the day after Vincent Price was born here in St. Louis, his daughter offers an intimate remembrance of her famous father during her multimedia presentation The Vincent Price Legacy: Reflections From a Daughter (Friday, May 27, 7pm, Missouri History Museum). On Saturday evening, Ms. Price will introduce the outdoor screening of her father’s last feature film, Edward Scissorhands,which will include a surprise or two (May 28, 8:30pm, Muny’s Bank of America Pavillion), Both events are free to the public.

Ms. Price participated in a Q&A with film historian David Del Valle on Wednesday evening at Washington University. For a complete list of activities, visit the Vincentennial website: http://cinemastlouis.org/vincentennial or the Facebook page.

Ms. Price is a designer, art historian, author, public speaker, and screenwriter. She is the author of the critically acclaimed biography, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography. You can find out more about her at her website.