Nancy Kovack

[chase]

Film she references is "Diary Of A Madman" 1963.

 

[tcklft]

Lucky Vincent. 😉

 

[AmishTickler]

Nice find.

 

[Nedstacey2]

I don't know what kind of horla possessed me last night [<--lame, ham-handed topical allusion] but unusually for me I was lazily channel-surfing and happened to alight upon Turner Classic Movies and its airing of Diary of a Madman. Never having seen this movie, I was intrigued enough to watch the whole thing, and at the end host Ben Mankiewicz came on in the standard TCM post-film commentary and related a version of the above anecdote about Kovack (whose name he kept mispronouncing as "Kovacs," I guess thinking of TV pioneer Ernie Kovacs--any physical similarity I sincerely doubt). "Intrigued" even more, mainly because I've lusted after that sultry, high-cheekboned vixen Kovack ever since I saw her bare feet and midriff in the "A Private Little War" episode of the original Star Trek, I discovered the following fuller account of the story right on TCM's own page for the film:

Nancy Kovack recalled in Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes by Tom Weaver that Price "was very respectful and I found that unusual. I knew that I wasn't known, and yet he was very respectful of me and kindly - he didn't have to be....I remember that just before the scene where he kills me with the knife, Vincent Price was tickling me and I was laughing, and I couldn't stop after that!"
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Here is the referenced scene (the parts that actually made it onto film, anyway, sadly):

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Lucky Vincent. 😉

For the love of God, Montressor!

Indeed, just another reason Price remains my Bro-God. Now we just need some video-editing genius to take the above clip and make an oversized feather or electric toothbrush be what he menacingly draws out of his overcoat instead of that butcher knife.

 

[milagros317]

Too bad they showed the murder and not the tickling in the film. 😛

 

[Restraints]

One of my favorite actors just became MORE favorite! Thanks for posting this.