Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress with a career spanning five decades in radio, stage, film, and television. For Disney, she appeared as Mrs. Snow in Pollyanna and as Mrs. Pringle in "The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove" for The Wonderful World of Disney.
Moorehead was born in Clinton, Massachusetts and the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri where her ambition to become an actress grew. As a young woman, Moorehead joined the chorus of the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company, known as "The Muny". Graduating from Muskingum College in Ohio, she taught public school for five years while earning a master's degree in English and public speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Unable to find steady work on stage and film in the beginning, she found work in radio and was soon in demand, often working on several and gained voice training to create a variety of characterizations.
By 1937, Moorehead had joined Orson Welles' Mercury Players, she began another attempt in film with his movie Citizen Kane. The earned widespread acclaim and opened doors for her on screen. She go on to appear in The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey Into Fear, Mrs. Parkington, The Big Street, Jane Eyre (1943), Mrs. Parkington, Dark Passage, The Woman in White, Johnny Belinda, Show Boat (1951), Main Street to Broadway, Magnificent Obsession, Meet Me in Las Vegas, The Opposite Sex, The True Story of Jesse James, How the West Was Won, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Singing Nun, and Charlotte's Web (1973). In television, she appeared in Wagon Train, Rawhide, Shirley Temple's Storybook, The Rifleman, The Twilight Zone, My Sister Eileen, Burke's Law, The Wild Wild West, The Virginian, Night Gallery, and Love, American Style. She would became recognized for role as Endora in the comedy series Bewitched.
Moorehead died at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota due to uterine cancer. She was entombed at Dayton Memorial Park in Ohio. In 1994, she was posthumously inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
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(Pollyanna)
(The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove)
