Price’s out daughter is now opening up for the first time about her late father’s bisexuality.

‘I am as close to certain as I can be that my dad had physically intimate relationships with men,’ Victoria Price says in an interview with Boom Magazine. ‘I know for 100 percent fact that my dad was completely loving and supportive of LGBT people.’

‘Everybody asks me: was your dad bisexual, was he bisexual,’ Price says. ‘And it was (the late actor) Roddy McDowall who said to me, you know, we didn’t have any idea what bisexuality meant in that sense, and if we didn’t know, then how can we know the answer to that question?’

When she came out to her dad, he did not come out to her but she was met with absolute understanding.

‘The interesting thing for me is that when I came out to him and he said to me, “You know, I know just how you feel because I have had these deep, loving relationships with men in my life and all my wives were jealous.”‘

The family loved across the street from Rock Hudson while Price was growing up and there were always a lot of gay people in their house.

‘”Uncle Rupert and Uncle Frank” came to every dinner party and it was very clear that they were together. And while the word [gay] was never mentioned, it was very much the norm,’ she says.

‘I remember at nine-years-old going to drop something off at Rock Hudson’s house – of course, I was super excited because I was a huge Rock Hudson fan. So this absolutely beautiful man came to the door and in my nine-year-old mind, I thought, oh, that’s – I don’t know if I had a word for it – but that’s his “Uncle Frank or Uncle Rupert,” right?’

Victoria Price also makes a revelation about her father’s third wife, the actress Coral Browne.

‘He married a bisexual woman and everybody assumed their marriage was a fraud,’ the daughter says. ‘It wasn’t a fraud. It was a totally sexual relationship but they were two people with very open minded approaches as to what life should look like. And that to me – people who lived this truth in all aspects of their lives – they should be heroes to every community.’

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5 Remarks

1. October 26th, 2015 at 6:09 pm
   K. Martinez says:

   I remember Vincent Price best from the “House of Wax” and the Roger Corman and William Castle movies I watched on TV as a kid. He was right up there with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee for me since I was and still am a big horror fan.

   I had heard even as far back as the early 1980′s that Vincent Price was bisexual, so this doesn’t surprise me if true. Whatever his orientation, he was a pretty cool guy and a wonderful actor. Nice post! Thanks, Greg.

2. October 26th, 2015 at 8:35 pm
   Charlie says:

   I hope that Victoria writes a biography. I would love to read more of her stories!

3. October 27th, 2015 at 1:46 pm
   Joe says:

   A fascinating read! Thank you! Vincent Price was a terrific actor.

4. October 28th, 2024 at 9:02 pm
   Dennis Wilkinson says:

   I was told that we were distant cousins of Vincent Price My Grandmother was Kathryn Price of Kansas City, Mo. I believe my late aunt made the discovery during her genealogy of My grandfather which she was the first of his 5 wives and my father was one of three offspring from that relationship. My great grandmother was Susie Price I don’t know where they were born. Both are buried in KS City MO.

5. December 15th, 2024 at 5:58 pm
   Steven says:

   I loved Vincent Price’ work. His daughters insights are wonderful. Yes she should write more. God bless all.