December 6: Happy Birthday Agnes Moorehead

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https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/12/06/...nes-moorehead/

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) began her acting career working in radio. In the mid-1930s, she met a young man named Orson Welles and became part of his Mercury Theatre company. She was one of several Mercury Players to join Welles when he moved into film production; she played Charles Foster Kane’s mother in Citizen Kane, and then received her first of four Oscar nominations as Fanny in The Magnificent Ambersons.

Although she was nominated for four Oscars and won two Golden Globes for her film work, many American viewers probably best remember Moorehead for the television role that brought her six Primetime Emmy nominations. She played a witch named Endora whose daughter has committed the taboo of marrying a mortal, who is not named “Durwood.”

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Endora was such a colorful character that we tend to forget the great career Agnes had in films.

BTW, I just saw Agnes in a Twilight Zone episode last night, where she was virtually the only character for the whole show, and had no dialog at all.