Biography: Agnes Moorehead |
At age three Agnes Moorehead first appeared onstage, and at 11 she made her professional debut in the ballet and chorus of the St. Louis Opera. As a teenager she regularly sang on local radio. She earned a Ph.D. in literature and studied theater at... more
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What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Cast: Shelley Winters Dennis Weaver Debbie Reynolds
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 101min
Though it bears more than passing resemblance to his macabre hits Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, this lesser-known outing from screenwriter Henry Farrell takes a more satirical turn, skewering the eccentricities of...
Cast: Joseph Barbera
Tags: Family Animated Musical Children's Fantasy
Length: 93min
This animated musical, based on E.B. White's children's book classic, is about a courageous spider who helps save the life of an ill-fated pig. Wilbur is a young pig (voice of Henry Gibson) who's owned by New England farmer Homer Zuckerman (voice of...
Cast: Greer Garson
Length: 98min
Henry Koster directed this cloying family musical based on the true life story of Soeur Sourire, a Belgian nun whose recordings made her an overnight sensation on The Ed Sullivan Show. Debbie Reynolds stars as Sister Ann, a Belgian nun who likes to...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Cast: Jimmy Durante
Length: 72min
No TV or movie producer has yet to resist the temptation of turning Lewis Carroll's -Alice in Wonderland and -Through the Looking Glass into an all-star musical. Certainly the folks at ABC were unable to resist turning out the 1966 taped TV special...
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Cast: Jerry Lewis Frank Tashlin
Length: 90min
This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful owner, whose outspoken wife Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) makes no secret about her feelings that Raymond is an incompetent boob....
Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
Cast: Olivia de Havilland Bette Davis Agnes Moorehead Joseph Cotten
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 150min
An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity; she'd been witness to the dismemberment murder of her fiance (Bruce Dern) and the suicide of the murderer, her own father (Victor...
Cast: David Janssen
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 102min
Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of TV's The Fugitive series. Janssen plays Tom Alder, a gumshoe looking into the murder of the secretary of a shady Hollywood film...
The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
Cast: Alan Hale, Jr. Robert Wagner
Tags: Biopic Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Length: 92min
Actually, this retelling of the life of outlaw Jesse James is only as true as its predecessor, the highly fanciful 1939 Tyrone Power-Henry Fonda starrer Jesse James. Generous chunks of stock footage from the earlier film are reused here, albeit...
Cast: Vincent Price
Tags: Thriller Mystery Haunted House Film Horror
Length: 80min
This fourth film version of the Mary Roberts Rinehart-Avery Hopwood stage chestnut The Bat is so old-fashioned in its execution that one might suspect it was intended as "camp" (though that phrase wasn't in common usage in 1959). Agnes Moorehead plays...
Cast: Kim Novak
Tags: Biopic Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 109min
Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very hard. As this filmed biography gets under way, wide-eyed Eagels finds herself stranded in a tank town by a smooth-talking...
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