Agnes Moorehead
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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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Cast: Joseph Barbera Debbie Reynolds Agnes Moorehead Paul Lynde Rex Allen
Tags: Children's Fantasy Animated Musical Family
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...
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Cast: Shelley Winters Dennis Weaver Debbie Reynolds Agnes Moorehead Curtis Harrington
Tags: Psychological Thriller 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...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Cast: Jimmy Durante Nanette Fabray Agnes Moorehead Jack Palance Robert Coote
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...
Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
Cast: Olivia de Havilland Bette Davis Robert Aldrich Agnes Moorehead Cecil Kellaway
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: Debbie Reynolds Agnes Moorehead Greer Garson George W. Davis Ricardo Montalban
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...
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Cast: Jerry Lewis Ray Walston Frank Tashlin Agnes Moorehead Jill St. John
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....
Cast: Peter Lorre Chico Marx Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Vincent Price
Tags: Fantasy Science Fiction Historical Film Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 100min
Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention...
The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
Cast: Alan Hale, Jr. Robert Wagner Agnes Moorehead Nicholas Ray Hope Lange
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 Agnes Moorehead John Sutton Joseph Biroc Crane Wilbur
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: Agnes Moorehead David Janssen Dina Merrill William Demarest Jeanne Crain
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...
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