Explore. Agnes Moorehead. Written by jmfh3733 june 15 2006 I commented about the picture of Agnes Moorehead 5 months ago, and it's still here. In 1952, she recorded an album of the drama, and performed scenes from the story in her one-woman show in the 1950s. Reynolds's autobiography mentions the rumor and states it was started "maliciously" by one of Moorehead's husbands during their divorce. Her family's Ohio farm went to John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, along with her collection of Bibles and biblical scholarship materials. (In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show on February 19, 1973, she revealed that, in 1922, she had by chance met Welles (15 years her junior) when he was a mere seven years old at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Despite her ambivalence, she remained with Bewitched until its run ended in 1972. She believed that it offered her excellent training and allowed her to develop her voice to create a variety of characterizations. [3] Moorehead rarely spoke of her sister after her suicide at age 23. Talented newcomers also made appearances on THE RIFLEMAN series, including Mark Goddard, Dennis Hopper, Michael Landon, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Vaughn, and many others. Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters. Later that year, she said she had enjoyed playing the role enough, but it was not challenging and the show itself was "not breathtaking", although her flamboyant and colorful character appealed to children. She also reprised her role in Don Juan in Hell on Broadway and on tour, with an all-star cast that featured Edward Mulhare, Ricardo Montalban, and Paul Henreid. She is also known for her iconic vocal performance in the original 1943 radioplay of Sorry, Wrong Number and several subsequent re-recordings for Suspense. I even saw her acting on The Rifleman. [21] Moorehead's longtime friend and producer Paul Gregory concurs in the assessment. She starred with Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Mary Astor, and Joseph Cotten in HushHush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) as the maid Velma, a role for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. She then pursued postgraduate studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which she graduated with honors in 1929. As soon as she spoke, I diffidently knew who it was. By the mid-1940s, Moorehead became a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, negotiating a $6,000-a-week contract, which also allowed her to perform on radio, an unusual clause at the time. Agnes Moorehead mor, all'et di 73 anni, il 30 aprile 1974 a Rochester (Minnesota, Stati Uniti d'America) dopo che le venne diagnosticato un cancro all'utero che, in breve tempo, si estese anche ai polmoni.. Molte fonti segnalano le coincidenze di morte per tumore di molti attori e attrici che lavorarono nel film Il conquistatore (1956), tanto da far parlare di "set cancerogeno". White's children's book Charlotte's Web. [31], Moorehead appeared on hundreds of individual broadcasts across a radio career that spanned from 1926 to her final two appearances, on CBS Radio Mystery Theatre in 1974. This FAQ is empty. In the 1950s, Moorehead continued to work in films and appeared on stage across the country. She commented to the New York Times in 1974, "I've been in movies and played theater from coast to coast, so I was quite well known before Bewitched, and I don't particularly want to be identified as a witch." Today. This has been dated January 1946 on the back by a previous owner. She started performing at the age of three and first recited The Lord's Prayer in a church. [citation needed], As a young woman, Moorehead joined the chorus of the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company, known as "The Muny". Small bequests were made for friends and domestic staff along with some charitable contributions. Explore aggie-obsessed's photos on Flickr. $14.95 + shipping . She continued acting in the theater throughout her career until just a few months before her death. In 1930, Moorehead married actor John Griffith Lee; they divorced a year after fostering a boy named Sean in 1952. Item Information. Moorehead rarely played lead roles, but her skill at character development and range earned her one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and six Emmy Awards. Snow in Disney's hit film Pollyanna (1960). Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as About. She is also known for acting in films such as Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and HushHush, Sweet Charlotte. (1964). She also acted with Mr. Humphrey Bogart in some great old B&W film in the 1940's. American Actress Agnes Moorehead was born Agnes Robertson Moorehead on 6th December, 1900 in Clinton, Massachusetts, USA and passed away on 30th Apr 1974 Rochester, Minnesota, USA aged 73. Agnes Moorehead was born as Agnes Robertson Moorehead on December 6, 1900 in Clinton, Massachusetts, to former singer Mildred and her husband, John Henderson Moorehead. American fan card with facsimile autograph. Add the first question. Even though she only appeared in one episode, Agnes left a lasting impression on the main cast and crew members who remembered her for her amiability, graciousness and sheer professionalism on set. Moorehead played a selfish, neurotic woman who overhears a murder being plotted via crossed phone wires and eventually realizes she is the intended victim. Agnes Moorehead was an American actress best known for playing Endora on the TV show Bewitched (1964-1972). Details about Chuck Connors The Rifleman Agnes Moorehead VINTAGE Photo Ep: Miss Bertie. By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer, and 46 had died of the disease. Directed by James Clavell. [18] Journalist Boze Hadleigh reported an incident, also sourced to Lynde, in which, when she caught one of her husbands cheating on her, "Agnes screamed at him that if he could have a mistress, so could she. She starred in The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price. "[11] Moorehead played one of her last roles on January 6, 1974, as Mrs. Ada Canby in the ironically titled "The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill", the inaugural episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.[12]. She was the first woman to host the Oscars ceremony. While there, she also appeared in college stage plays. Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress whose 41-year career included work in radio, stage, film, and television. For the 1973 Broadway adaptation of Gigi, Moorehead portrayed Aunt Alicia and performed various songs, including "The Contract" for the original cast recording. Agnes Morehead (d. 6 Aralk 1900; Clinton, Massachusetts - . He died on October 19, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. [13] Her role in the radio play Sorry, Wrong Number inspired writers of the CBS television series The Twilight Zone to script an episode with Moorehead in mind. She is most remembered for Bewitched. Moorehead found the script odd, because it had only one line of dialogue, at the very end. Miss Agnes Moorehead played so many parts of her career as a very sexy actress in her ruin. In 1941, Moorehead played Maggie in the short-lived Bringing Up Father program on the Blue Network. She appeared as the hypochondriac Mrs. Moorehead met actress Helen Hayes, who encouraged her to enter films, but her first attempts were met with failure. Agnes would also work with Orson in the Welles-directed The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), as well as I think her makeup was more a matter of not trying to hide her age.Although Westerns are not my primary interest, it was fun to watch this particular episode. bobbymaxwell. Agnes Robertson Moorehead (Clinton, Massachusetts; 6 de diciembre de 1900 - Rochester, Minnesota; 30 de abril de 1974), conocida como Agnes Moorehead, fue una actriz estadounidense de cine y televisin, [1] conocida principalmente por su papel como Endora en la serie de televisin Hechizada. Agnes Robertson Moorehead (6 d'avientu de 1900, condu de Worcester - 30 d'abril de 1974, Rochester), foi una actriz estauxunidense de cine y televisin. In 1994, she was posthumously inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Co-star Dick Sargent, who in 1969 replaced the ill Dick York as Samantha's husband Darrin Stephens, had a more difficult relationship with Moorehead, describing her as "a tough old bird."[9]. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnes_Moorehead&oldid=1022561344, Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe (film) winners, Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from January 2012, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Articles needing additional references from January 2020, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with multiple identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Episode: "Miss Bertie" season 3, episode 14, Episode: "Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot", Episode: "This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There", Episode: "The Trickster/Crack of Doom/The Human Dynamo", Game Show Contestant / Celebrity Guest Star, Episode: "The Night of the Vicious Valentine", Episode: "He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That his Barrel was Round", Episode: "Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove", Episode: "He Could Sell Iceboxes to Eskimos", Ensemble. Her sole immediate survivor was her mother Mary, who died in 1990, aged 106. [citation needed] Moorehead earned a bachelor's degree in 1923, majoring in biology at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Moorehead's early career was unsteady, and although she was able to find stage work, she was often unemployed. [28], Moorehead bequeathed $25,000 to Muskingum College, with instructions to fund one or more "Agnes Moorehead Scholarships". In addition to some other episodes of the Rifleman, Big Valley, and a few other westerns, she wrote three episodes of Star Trek. [32], Moorehead began appearing on stage during her training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In a 2010 episode of his podcast,[27] Dunning states that the original source of the claim "was apparently a 1979 article in the tabloid The Star by Peter Brennan, who merely speculated about the coincidence without doing any real research. She played Parthy Hawks, wife of Cap'n Andy and mother of Magnolia, in MGM's hit 1951 remake of Show Boat. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater 1974-01-06 The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill starring Agnes Moorehead. Moorehead's early career was unsteady, and although she was able to find stage work, she was often unemployed. On February 10, 1967, she portrayed Miss Emma Valentine in "The Night of the Vicious Valentine" on The Wild Wild West, a performance for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She fell ill during the production, resulting in Arlene Francis having to replace her. When she was rejected as not being "the right type", Moorehead returned to radio. A singer in a dance hall asks Lucas to take care of her daughter in order to hide the child from the woman's ex-husband, who has come to North Fork to take her away. She also left half of her manuscripts to Muskingum with the other half going to the University of Wisconsin. [16] A number of articles that appeared in periodicals in the alternative press have identified her as a lesbian. My screencap of Agnes as Miss Bertie in the episode titled 'Miss Bertie' of the Rifleman. She earned a Ph.D. in literature and studied theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the 1970s, Moorehead's life was increasingly affected by declining health. Agnes Moorehead is a member of the following lists: Bewitched, American film actors and American television actors. It is not clear what crime he is wanted for in Oklahoma, but if his punishment is a jail term in Leavenworth, it may not be a capital crime.Agnes Moorehead was not primarily a comedic actress, but employs a light touch here. Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. Moorehead's most successful appearance on Suspense was in the play Sorry, Wrong Number, written by Lucille Fletcher, broadcast on May 18, 1943. Moorehead's title character was described as "the lively widow of a department store owner who has a tongue as sharp as a hatpin and a heart as warm as summer. In Sorry, Wrong Number, Moorehead offered a famed, bravura performance using only her voice. He was married to Agnes Moorehead. Her mother indulged her active imagination, often asking, "Who are you today, Agnes?" Heading home on a stagecoach, Mark and Lucas are entertained by a little old lady's stories of gunslingers and her scrapbook of wanted posters. Agnes Robertson Moorehead was born on December 6, 1900,[2] in Clinton, Massachusetts, the daughter of former singer Mary (ne McCauley; 18831990), who was 17 when she was born, and Presbyterian clergyman John Henderson Moorehead (18691938). Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. She appeared in seven productions as a student. She married actor Robert Gist in 1954, and they divorced in 1958. Whether you're ready for the return of your favorite show or need to catch up, May is packed with an array of returning series. She was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. This involved coming to the dinner table and imitating their father's parishioners. He is willing to kill without a second thought, but it is not his first reaction. In 1959, Moorehead guest-starred on many series, including The Rebel and Alcoa Theatre. Movies. Moorehead met actress Helen Hayes, who encouraged her to enter films, b Need some help finding the best things to watch on Netflix? The family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and her ambition to become an actress grew "very strong". You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. She also felt that the television writing was often below standard and dismissed many of the Bewitched scripts as "hack" in a 1965 interview for TV Guide. Her career in television, radio, film, and stage lasted for over 6 Her transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. I did NOT recognize Agnes Moorehead, even though we did watch Bewitched a few years later.Some comment on the director, I noticed the writer, Margaret Armen. [14] In "The Invaders" (broadcast January 27, 1961), Moorehead played a woman whose isolated farm is plagued by mysterious intruders. By 1937, Moorehead had joined Orson Welles' Mercury Players, as one of his principal performers along with Joseph Cotten. Heading home on a stagecoach, Mark and Lucas are entertained by a little old lady's stories of gunslingers and her scrapbook of wanted posters. Rent new releases as well as back catalogue of Agnes Moorehead films on DVD and Blu-ray with our no obligation Free Trial offer. Moorehead explained that MGM usually refused to allow their actors to appear on radio, as "the actors didn't have the knowledge or the taste or the judgment to appear on the right sort of show. Little do they know she's a bounty hunter with her sights set on Duke Jennings, who's headed to Northfork. [3], Moorehead always said that she graduated from Central High School in St. Louis in 1918. However, her six-decade career also included work in radio, stage, and film. Condition: 1970s AGNES MOOREHEAD Live Candid Snapshot Vintage Original Photo BEWITCHED nb. 72. Moorehead may have developed cancer from radioactive fallout from atmospheric atomic bomb tests[24] while making The Conqueror with John Wayne in St. George, Utah. Several production members, as well as Wayne himself, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendriz (who died by suicide) and its director Dick Powell, later succumbed to cancer and cancer-related illnesses. Title: The May 25, 1943 airing was made part of the National Sound Registry by the Library of Congress in 2014. My screencap of Agnes as Miss Bertie in the episode titled 'Miss Bertie' of the Rifleman With Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Lillian Bronson. Paul Fix play Micah Torrance, marshal She has been an Academy Award nominee four times in her role as the witch-mother-in-law, Endora, in Heading home on a stagecoach, Mark and Lucas are entertained by a little old lady's stories of gunslingers and her scrapbook of wanted posters. Recommended. 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