Oh hey, it’s Vincent Price’s 110th birthday!Okey, as a young man Price had extremely rig

Oh hey, it’s Vincent Price’s 110th birthday!

Okey, as a young man Price had extremely right wing political views adopted from his wealthy parents, this, unfortunately, included saying some praiseworthy things about a certain Adolf Hitler. However, as the 1930s rolled on he “came to his senses“, in his own words, and went on to become one of the most vocally liberal actors in Hollywood for the remainder of his career, viewing his brief period as a fascist sympathiser with understandable shame for the rest of his life.

However, the irony is that while Price was an example of someone who was swept up by the fascist-funded media campaign in the UK and US in the 1930s which was intended to normalise the beliefs of Hitler and Mussolini, but realised it was wrong and worked for the rest of their lives to correct their mistake… The US government saw his adoption of progressive left-wing politics and friendship with left-wing folks like Dorothy ParkerandLillian Hellman as a negative.

Indeed, in the biography of the actor by his daughter, Victoria Price, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House of Un-American Activities Commission had Vincent “greylisted”… For being a “premature anti-nazi“ (something he noted he apparently shared with Eleanor Roosevelt).

For the remainder of his career worked tirelessly for socially progressive causes, be they denouncing religious and racial prejudice (referring to it as a “poison” on the radio in 1950) or his work supporting the LGBTQ community (Vincent was bisexual and his daughter, Victoria, is a lesbian), including openly criticising the anti-gay rights campaign by bigot and singer Anita Bryant in the 1970s.