Vincent Value’s favourite vacation was Christmas, and the horror icon couldn’t resist pulling a prank on his spouse every December, in keeping with his daughter.
Victoria Value informed Fox Information Digital that her father, the star of basic horror films like “House on Haunted Hill” and “Edward Scissorhands,” had a “weakness for large jewelry that he loved buying his wives,” and after going to Poland in 1974 he gifted her stepmother a chunky bone butterfly necklace.
“My stepmother hated it,” Value mentioned. “That wasn’t her cup of tea. And unlike us, she just said it. ‘I will never wear this. I hate it.’”
She mentioned that her stepmom additionally doubtless wasn’t “endeared” by the truth that he additionally gave a necklace to her mother, Mary Grant Value.
She continued, “My dad loved Christmas; he was like Father Christmas. Christmas was his favorite holiday. They were married for 18 years. Every year for the next 18 years, [her stepmother] would get in her thing of Christmas packages some beautiful Tiffany box or something, and there it was, every damn year that bone necklace, so that was my dad’s humor.”
She mentioned her dad was a recurring prankster, as soon as leaving a “disgusting corroded denture” beneath her pillow when she anticipated a nickel from the Tooth Fairy, and leaping out and stunning sweet givers when he took her trick-or-treating.
Value mentioned her household celebrated a “very traditional” Christmas that concerned opening stockings with their household, candy rolls and eggnog, lunch and exchanging presents all day lengthy with their prolonged household, and eventually a giant New 12 months’s Eve social gathering with a band and dancing.
“The Christmas tree was always a big deal,” she mentioned. “We lived in a very large house. It had very high ceilings, so [her mother] had to buy Christmas trees where the department stores bought theirs.”
She mentioned their entire home was embellished, and her mom turned their tree right into a “work of art,” and he or she even obtained her personal little “Charlie Brown” tree that she may beautify.
“All the artwork had bows on it and, you know, different figures had, you know, ornaments on them. And, it was a very joyful time,” she mentioned.
Value mentioned additionally they traveled collectively for lots of Christmases as a baby, together with locations like London and Boston.
She obtained one in every of her favourite presents, a transportable typewriter, whereas they have been spending Christmas in England one 12 months, however her favourite present was one she obtained from her dad each Christmas – a $10 present certificates to a bookstore in Beverly Hills the place she was in a position to purchase a stack of books.
“My dad and I would go to Hunter’s Books after I got my certificate, and he would amuse himself for as long as it took. There was no time limit,” she remembered.
“He would look at the art books, have a lovely time, and I would just spend so much time trying to figure out the perfect 10 books I wanted with my $10 worth. And then I would go home, lock myself in the room and be done with them, I don’t know, like 24 hours later. And then my dad would always be sort of pretend-angry. ‘I can’t believe I just spent $10, and you run through it like that,’ you know?’ . . . and I knew he loved how much I loved to read.”
