Whatever Happened To John Wilkes Booth (Aired April 23, 1949)
Vincent Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marguerite Cobb (née Willcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, Sr., who was the president of the National Candy Company. His grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar baking powder, and secured the family's fortune. Price attended St. Louis Country Day School. He was further educated at Yale in art history and fine art. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and the Courtauld Institute, London. He became interested in theater in the 1930s, appearing professionally on stage from 1935. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself as a competent actor, notably in Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger. He also played Joseph Smith, Jr. in the movie Brigham Young (1940), as well as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). Price's first venture into the horror genre was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film Tower of London in which his character was murdered by Karloff's. The following year he portrayed the title character in the film The Invisible Man Returns (a role he reprised in a vocal cameo at the end of the 1948 horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein).
THIS EPISODE:
August 20, 1953. NBC network. "What Happened To John Wilkes Booth?". Sustaining. Announced as the first show of the series. The mystery of the man who shot Abraham Lincoln. What ever happened to John Wilkes Booth? Interesting listening. The script and an almost identical recording) was used four years previously (possibly an audition). Arnold Marquis (author, director), Vincent Price, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Hans Conried, John Storm (announcer). 26:36.
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