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Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod stands beside his wax sculpture of Marie Antoinette, dressed in elaborate 18th-century attire, in a scene from House of Wax (1953).
Vincent Price in House of Wax Vincent Price with a wax sculpture of Marie-Antoinette in House of Wax (1953), directed by André De Toth.

House of Wax

film by De Toth [1953]
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House of Wax, American horror film, released in 1953, that established Vincent Price as a leading actor in the genre. It was one of the first films shot in 3-D. Price portrayed Prof. Henry Jarrod, an ingenious sculptor of wax statues and part owner of a wax museum that is burned down by his business partner in an attempt to collect insurance money. Soon thereafter, the partner and his girlfriend go missing, and Jarrod, who...

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