Trivia of Agnes Moorehead

 Trivia of Agnes Moorehead (6 December 1900 - 30 April 1974)

*She made her first public performance at the age of 3, when she recited the Lord's Prayer in her father's church.His father was a Presbyterian clergyman.When she become an actress, she often came to set with her script in one hand and her Bible in the other.

*When her early career still unsteady, she met actress Helen Hayes, who encouraged her to try to enter films, but her first attempts were met with failure. Rejected as not being the right type, Moorehead entered to radio.She met Orson Welles and by 1937 she became a member of his Mercury Theater Group, along with Joseph Cotten.

*Agnes Moorehead made her film debut in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane ( 1941 ). Despite only having a small part at the beginning of the film, Moorehead’s role as Charles Kane’s impoverished mother, Mary Kane was crucial to the movie, and would serve as an inventor of her future prominence in motion pictures.

*After Citizen Kane, Agnes was cast in the role of Fanny Minafer in Orson Welles second film, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), in which she received her first Academy Award nominations for her portrayal of the emotionally wrought Aunt Fanny.Her signature scene, in which Aunt Fanny bemoaned the turn of the Ambersons fortunes and her inability to provide for George.

*Her most acclaimed performance was the Baroness Aspasia Conti from Mrs. Parkington (1944), where she starred alongside Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Agnes received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance, and she considered it to be her favorite among her films.

*In late 1947, Agnes was cast in the role of the 105 year old Juliana in movie The Lost Moment.To look convincing as a 105 year old, Agnes was required to wear a mask that would make her unrecognizable. This meant that she had to arrive in her dressing room at 5:am each morning.The most distressing part for the cast including Agnes Moorehead,Robert Cummings, and Susan Hayward was receiving the scathing reviews from the critics, and the film falling to debris at the box-office.

*Her famous role was Endora a powerful witch in Bewitched (1964).She really hated filming this TV series, since it forced her to get up at 4:45 a.m., start makeup at 6:00 a.m. and continue filming often until 8:00 p.m.; obviously the reason she originally insisted on not appearing on every episode.