Agnes Robertson Moorehead

Dedicated to the incomparable Agnes Moorehead.

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Agnes Moorehead in Dark Passage (1947)

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You’re nothing but an escaped convict. Nobody knows what you wrote down. They’ll believe me. They’ll believe me!

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-scanned from “My Travels with Agnes Moorehead” by Quint Benedetti

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Happy National Twilight Zone Day!

Agnes Moorehead from the episode “The Invaders”

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One of the most amazing episodes of The Twilight Zone , almost zero dialogue, amazing direction and cinematography.  I’ve watched it several times and often have to freeze the images so I can look at them closer. Nearly every shot in this episode is a work of art.  

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Sorry Wrong Number

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Anniversary - “Sorry, Wrong Number”

On May 25, 1943, radio audiences first heard “Sorry, Wrong Number.” Lucille Fletcher’s script about a bedridden woman who overhears a murder plot when phone wires get crossed became one of the signature stories on Suspense and one of the most famous radio plays of all time. Agnes Moorehead starred in that first production and repeated the performance seven times on the air. Her final turn in the play came in 1960. The script was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1948 with Barbara Stanwyck playing the lead role, but it can’t match the tension generated by Agnes Moorehead’s legendary performance.

In honor of the anniversary, I’ll post some of the Suspense productions of “Sorry, Wrong Number.” For more from the Golden Age of Radio, click here to subscribe to the “Down These Mean Streets” podcast in iTunes.

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Agnes Moorehead at the Hollywood Palace, 1966 via Getty

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- And there she must stay, out on the lake: silent, white, majestic. Be a bird, but never fly. Know one song, but never sing it until the moment of death. And so it must be for you, Alexandra: cool indifference to the staring crowds along the bank. And the song? Never.

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Agnes Moorehead via Getty

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Agnes Moorehead, c. 1946 via Getty

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