Vincent Price dialect (including vid clip)

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Someone asked the exact same question here in 2015.

Vincent Price's voice: how and why?

How did Vincent Price’s wonderfully distinctive way of speaking (I hesitate to call it a dialect) come about? Has there ever been anything like it? I know he came from St Louis, Missouri. Did people there speak that way when he was growing up? Does anyone there speak that way now and not get sent away for psychiatric evaluation?