April 10, 1953 –
Warner Bros.‘ first 3-D movie, House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, premiered on this date. The director Andre DeToth was unable to see in 3D himself, having lost an eye at an early age.
It must have been easy for Vincent Price to act alarmed in the sequence in which his museum burns down. Right before the shoot, André De Toth’s crew set three “spot fires” in strategic locations. Then the cameras started rolling and everything went downhill. The team quickly lost control of their fires, which merged into a massive inferno that put a hole in the sound stage roof and singed Price’s eyebrows. But because the rapidly melting wax mannequins would’ve been very hard to replace, de Toth kept on filming-even as firemen arrived to help extinguish the flames.
The Haus of Dcaligari 