Vincent Price will be inducted into the California Independent Film Festival's Classic Film Hall of Fame and Museum at the New Rheem Theatre on Saturday, March 7. The all-day festival includes four of the horror actor's classic films, a lecture on Price and his legacy, and the induction ceremony itself.

Victoria Price, Vincent's daughter, was originally scheduled to talk about her famous father, but had to cancel her appearance on short notice for personal reasons. Giving the keynote lecture instead will be CAIFF President Derek Zemrak and CAIFF co-founder Leonard Pirkle.

Famous for remaining relevant during a 65-year career that began on Broadway with Helen Hayes and included film noir classics like "Laura," beguiling television appearances ("Batman" and "The Brady Bunch"), classic horror films like "House of Wax" and concluding with his final role, as an inventor in Tom Burton's "Edward Scissorhands" in 1990, Price was a connoisseur of fine wine and dining.

"He was a renowned cook and traveled all over the world consulting with restaurants. Not many people know that," Zemrak said.

And not many people are cinephiles of equal rank to Zemrak, who founded the Moraga-based Hall of Fame in 2013. In two years, its collection has grown to include artifacts and other exhibit materials for 11 Hall of Famers.

Zemrak said it was easy to get Price's daughter on board with his induction into the CAIFF Hall of Fame.

"She has a legacy site and wants to keep people seeing his films," he said. "Talking with her, I found out she has home footage she shows during lectures."

The collection will house a rare, bronze sculpture that Zemrak says is just one of three in the world. Created as a prototype by artist Clete Shields at the Henry Alvarez Foundry for a proposed line of Classic Horror sculptures, the bronzes were never produced and the original mold was destroyed long ago.

But Price's films endure, and among Zemrak's favorites is "House on Haunted Hill."

"It was one of the most scary films, in it's time," he said. "Now, it's almost campy but it's terrific fun. We'll have surprises going on during that."

The celebration will also include the induction of Thomas Edison to the museum. Hardly a "side note," Zemrak said, "If there was no Edison, there would be no film."

Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope photos from 1894 San Francisco and an interactive tablet display will describe the kinetoscope viewer, a forerunner of the motion picture film projector developed by Edison and his assistant, W. K. L. Dickson, in the late 1800s.