Starter of this subject: Chuck Tranberg
Last post in this subject: 6/30/2005
Messages in this subject: 1
| Chuck Tranberg | 6/30/2005 1 replies |
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Hello
My first book, "I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead" has been published by Bear Manor Media. The book is 428 pages and a complete cradle to grave biography of one of the great actresses of her time. It also includes many rare photographs. I had access to 159 boxes of Miss Moorehead's papers held by the Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin. I also was thrilled to interview such co-workers and friends as Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Debbie Reynolds, Rose Marie, William Windom, Joan Fontaine and from the radio days Conrad (Mayor of the City) Binyon, Arthur Anderson, Elliot Reid, and those two greats of classic radio drama--Norman Corwin and Himan Brown. One of the reason I wrote this book was to remind the reader that Miss Moorehead was more than "Endora" on "Bewitched." She appeared in more than sixty films was nominated four times for an Oscar. She was a great stage artist appearing with Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in "Don Juan in Hell" and later in her own acclaimed one-woman show. And of course with her many appearances with Orson Welles on the "Mercury Theatre" not to mention her work on "Suspense", "March of Time", "Cavalcade of America", "Mayor of the Town", and "The Shadow"(just to name a few)--one of the authentically great voices of classic radio drama. The book is available on the publishers website http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/id74.html and also on amazon and barnes and noble. |
| ed kienzler | 8/10/2005 0 replies |
| In regards to Miss Moorehead, I have a copy of Suspense's great "Sorry Wrong Number" that has a date of May 1943...it was from Radio Reruns...could this particular episode just be one of the versions she did over the 20+ years of Suspense? |