On April 10, 1953, the horror film The House of Wax, starring
Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater
(below)..
Released by Warner Brothers, it was the first movie from a
major motion-picture studio to be shot using the three-
dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process and one of the
first horror films to be shot in color.
Directed by Andre De Toth, The House of Wax was a remake
of 1933’s Mystery in the Wax Museum.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)