List of the best Agnes Moorehead movies: Dear, Dead Delilah(1972), Caged(1950), All That Heaven Allows(1955), The Lost Moment(1947), Station West(1948), Jeanne Eagels(1957), Meet Me in Las Vegas(1956), Those Redheads From Seattle(1953), Who's Minding the Store?(1963), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte(1965), Magnificent Obsession(1954), The Revolt of Mamie Stover(1956) ... ...
Horror
1972
90 Minutes
Delilah Charles
Agnes Moorehead Will Geer Michael Ansara Dennis Patrick Anne Meacham Robert Gentry
A dying Southern matriarch (Agnes Moorehead) in a wheelchair sends her family on a search for buried family treasure.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
1950
96 Minutes
Ruth Benton
Eleanor Parker Agnes Moorehead Hope Emerson Ellen Corby Betty Garde Jan Sterling Lee Patrick Jane Darwell Gertrude Michael Joan Miller Marjorie Crossland
robber warden matron prisoner mother dark brutal fiery melodramatic prison cell infirmary prison life murder pregnancy illegitimate child mother/child relationship sadism fall metamorphosis
An innocent (Eleanor Parker) lands in a women's prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn (Hope Emerson).
Romance
USA
1955
89 Minutes
Sara Warren
Jane Wyman Rock Hudson Agnes Moorehead Conrad Nagel Virginia Grey Gloria Talbott William Reynolds Jacqueline de Wit Charles Drake Leigh Snowden Donald Curtis
widow daughter neighbor love interest emotional melodramatic new england household older woman-younger man death deception television affair romance forbidden love 1950s
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Romance
USA
1947
88 Minutes
Juliana Borderau
publisher elderly person great-niece poet priest lover melodramatic uneasy new york city office venice, italy bedroom publishing schizophrenia blindness deception fire love letters quest transformation
An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.
Western
USA
1948
92 Minutes
Mrs. Mary Caslon
Dick Powell Jane Greer Agnes Moorehead Burl Ives Tom Powers Gordon Oliver Steve Brodie Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Raymond Burr Regis Toomey Olin Howland
secret agent captain mine owner financier lawyer partner gritty dark saloon outpost mine hotel stagecoach mill undercover operations theft gold murder business romance
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Biography
USA
1957
109 Minutes
Nellie Neilson
Kim Novak Jeff Chandler Agnes Moorehead Charles Drake Larry Gates Virginia Grey Gene Lockhart Joe De Santis Murray Hamilton
dancer waitress actress carnival worker understudy passionate dark melodramatic broadway theater stage carnival new york city kansas city, mo. fame ambition betrayal show business alcoholism jeanne eagels wretched excess
The life of 1920s actress Jeanne Eagels.
Musical, Romance
USA
1956
112 Minutes
Miss Hattie
Dan Dailey Cyd Charisse Agnes Moorehead Lili Darvis Jim Backus Paul Henreid
rancher gambler ballerina chaperone mother amusing playful cheeky las vegas hotel casino stage gambling luck love-hate relationship vacation mother/son relationship love discovery temptation
In 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.
Adventure
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Mrs. Edmonds
Rhonda Fleming Gene Barry Agnes Moorehead Teresa Brewer Guy Mitchell Jean Parker Roscoe Ates John Kellogg Frank Wilcox
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Dawson City Yukon during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
Comedy
1963
90 Minutes
Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle
Jerry Lewis Jill St. John Agnes Moorehead John McGiver Ray Walston Nancy Kulp Francesca Bellini John Abbott Jerry Hausner Peggy Mondo Mary Treen
young man rich girl mother boss employee amusing playful spirited department store suburbia house affluent neighborhood wealth disapproval relationships challenge work family forbidden love transformation
A klutzy poodle sitter (Jerry Lewis) goes to work in his girlfriend's (Jill St. John) mother's (Agnes Moorehead) department store.
Horror
USA
1965
133 Minutes
Velma
Bette Davis Olivia de Havilland Joseph Cotten Agnes Moorehead Cecil Kellaway Victor Buono Mary Astor Bruce Dern
spinster murderer housekeeper suspenseful dark creepy campy louisiana household plantation murder death dreams drugs mystery fall 1920s
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Drama
USA
1954
108 Minutes
Nancy Ashford
Jane Wyman Rock Hudson Barbara Rush Agnes Moorehead Otto Kruger Gregg Palmer Sara Shane Paul Cavanagh Judy Nugent George Lynn Richard Cutting
playboy widow best friend mentor melodramatic mushy heartwarming tender hospital brightwood house new love accidental death repentance love transformation wretched excess sacrifice 1950s
A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.
Drama
USA
1956
92 Minutes
Bertha Parchman
Jane Russell Richard Egan Joan Leslie Agnes Moorehead Jorja Curtright Michael Pate Richard Coogan Alan Reed Eddie Firestone Jean Willes Leon Lontoc
prostitute writer friend manager sailor emotional uneasy melodramatic san francisco boat hawaii nightclub prostitution new life romance affair real estate world war ii fall love
Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1945
86 Minutes
Aunt Jessie Frame
Fredric March Betty Field Skip Homeier Agnes Moorehead Joan Carroll Edit Angold
nephew uncle professor fiancée emotional gripping germany united states household family world war ii nazism judaism propaganda discovery growing up transformation 1940s
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Musical
USA
1966
98 Minutes
Sister Cluny
Debbie Reynolds Ricardo Montalban Greer Garson Agnes Moorehead Chad Everett Katharine Ross Juanita Moore Ricky Cordell Michael Pate Tom Drake Larry D. Mann
nun priest record producer young boy heartwarming inspiring belgium convent music performance religious vows faith fame discovery transformation 1960s
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1961
102 Minutes
Mrs. Eleanor Delaney
David Janssen Jeanne Crain Dina Merrill Agnes Moorehead Brad Dexter Robert Strauss Jacques Aubuchon William Demarest
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.
Adventure
USA
1956
111 Minutes
Hunkin
John Wayne Susan Hayward Pedro Armendáriz Agnes Moorehead Thomas Gomez John Hoyt William Conrad Ted de Corsia Leslie Bradley Lee Van Cleef Peter Mamakos
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Western
1957
92 Minutes
Mrs. Samuel
Robert Wagner Jeffrey Hunter Hope Lange Agnes Moorehead Alan Hale Jr. Alan Baxter John Carradine Rachel Stephens
brother outlaw bank robber mother confederate soldier brooding gritty spirited tense missouri minnesota farm bank jesse james bank heist train robbery loyalty retribution family adventure
Misfit Missouri brothers Jesse and Frank James (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) turn to crime in the post-Civil War South.
Drama
1945
93 Minutes
Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode
Lana Turner Laraine Day Susan Peters Agnes Moorehead Bill Johnson Natalie Schafer Lee Patrick Marta Linden June Lockhart Jess Barker Michael Kirby
A debutante (Lana Turner), a serviceman's bride (Susan Peters) and a girl (Laraine Day) from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Biography
1949
106 Minutes
Ma Stratton
James Stewart June Allyson Frank Morgan Agnes Moorehead Bill Williams Bruce Cowling Cliff Clark
pitcher wife mother baseball player inspiring touching texas wilderness baseball field chicago disability comeback baseball rise transformation quest underdog 1940s
Inspired by his wife (June Allyson) and son, Chicago White Soxer Monty Stratton (James Stewart) pitches with an artificial leg.
Drama
USA
1941
119 Minutes
Mrs. Mary Kane
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Ruth Warrick Everett Sloane Agnes Moorehead Dorothy Comingore Ray Collins George Coulouris William Alland Paul Stewart Erskine Sanford
news reporter billionaire journalist singer intricate profound gripping dark new york city boarding school college opera house office mansion newspapers investigative journalism recluses wealth quest rise
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.
Drama
USA
1948
102 Minutes
Aggie MacDonald
Jane Wyman Lew Ayres Charles Bickford Jan Sterling Agnes Moorehead Stephen McNally
deaf person pretty woman doctor father aunt rapist emotional passionate canada cape breton island farm deafness romance false accusations rape family dysfunction pregnancy love underdog 1940s
A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.
Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Fanny
Joseph Cotten Tim Holt Dolores Costello Anne Baxter Agnes Moorehead Richard Bennett Erskine Sanford J. Louis Johnson Don Dillaway Charles R. Phipps Dorothy Vaughan
wife mother son father carmaker aunt fascinating dense intense indiana mansion europe small town indianapolis family wealth aging love jealousy unrequited love
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
92 Minutes
Christine Hill Cosick
Paul Douglas Richard Basehart Barbara Bel Geddes Debra Paget Agnes Moorehead Robert Keith Howard da Silva Jeffrey Hunter Martin Gabel Grace Kelly Frank Faylen
young man cop psychiatrist girlfriend mother father gritty tense new york city skyscraper hotel office suicide dysfunction depression divorce family rescue fall 1950s
An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1948
109 Minutes
Countess Fosco
Eleanor Parker Alexis Smith Sydney Greenstreet Gig Young Agnes Moorehead John Abbott John Emery
painter count niece guest beautiful woman creepy intricate england village castle deception art dark secrets discovery mystery 1860s
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1945
112 Minutes
Countess Zoe
Hedy Lamarr Robert Walker June Allyson Carl Esmond Agnes Moorehead Rags Ragland Ludwig Stossel George Cleveland Warner Anderson Konstantin Shayne Tom Trout
A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Violette Shumberg
Henry Fonda Lucille Ball Barton MacLane Eugene Pallette Agnes Moorehead Sam Levene Ray Collins Marion Martin William T. Orr George Cleveland Vera Gordon
A busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
71 Minutes
Mrs. Mathews
Joseph Cotten Orson Welles Dolores del Río Ruth Warrick Agnes Moorehead Everett Sloane Jack Moss Hans Conried
engineer wife nazi passenger dancer colonel thrilling tense hotel ship nightclub istanbul survival assassination investigation quest pursuit 1940s
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Romance
USA
1953
102 Minutes
Mildred Waterbury
Tom Morton Mary Murphy Herb Shriner Agnes Moorehead
playwright actress celebrity mother father business owner creative lighthearted new york city theater family home small town indiana ambition stardom broadway small-town life love triangle love transformation
In New York City, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1971
101 Minutes
Sister Alma
Debbie Reynolds Shelley Winters Dennis Weaver Micheál MacLiammóir Agnes Moorehead Helene Winston Peggy Rea
parent murderer dance instructor radio host evangelist son creepy dark cheeky iowa small town hollywood, calif. dance studio trial murder case new life dancing evangelicalism friendship wretched excess
The weird mothers (Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters) of two thrill-killers move to 1930s Hollywood and open a talent school for children.
Adventure
1955
111 Minutes
Aggie
Tyrone Power Susan Hayward Richard Egan John Justin Agnes Moorehead Rita Moreno Hope Emerson Brad Dexter Henry O'Neill Paul Thompson
settler farmer horse trader irishwoman native warrior melodramatic spirited moving intense ireland south africa ranch jungle romance journey emigration famine struggle adventure
A Boer leader (Tyrone Power) loves an Irishwoman (Susan Hayward) on a trek through Zulu country in 19th-century South Africa.
Drama
1969
80 Minutes
Lisa's mother
Lee Majors Joey Heatherton Jimmy Dean Bobby Hatfield Marvin Gaye Agnes Moorehead Pat Hingle Jill Haworth Peter Haskell Claudia Bryar
veteran girlfriend friend father mother soldier gutsy somber raw vietnam dallas san francisco airport racetrack house vietnam war loss friendship love indecisiveness
A Vietnam veteran (Lee Majors) comes home to Texas and finds his girlfriend (Joey Heatherton) married, his business ruined.
Drama
USA
1949
110 Minutes
Emma Getzel
Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Melvyn Douglas Walter Huston Ethel Barrymore Frank Morgan Agnes Moorehead Ludwig Stossel Ludwig Donath Erno Verebes Curt Bois
writer gambler grandmother thief general manager dark hedonistic melodramatic sultry train germany casino hotel pawn shop gambling influence writing addiction forgiveness
A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1957
168 Minutes
Ellen Shawnessy
Montgomery Clift Elizabeth Taylor Eva Marie Saint Nigel Patrick Lee Marvin Rod Taylor Agnes Moorehead Walter Abel Jarma Lewis Tom Drake Rhys Williams
southern belle abolitionist sweetheart soldier student son passionate melodramatic indiana new orleans household tennessee georgia battlefield american civil war unhappy marriage mental illness deception suicide love
A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the on-set of the Civil War.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1956
90 Minutes
Mrs. Matilda Kingsley
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Lori Nelson Jeff Morrow Jackie Loughery John Baragrey Agnes Moorehead Lon Chaney Milton Frome Richard Nugent Lee Van Cleef
A rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.
Musical
USA
1948
92 Minutes
Cousin Lily
Mickey Rooney Gloria DeHaven Walter Huston Frank Morgan Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marilyn Maxwell Agnes Moorehead Selena Royle Michael Kirby Shirley Johns Hal Hackett
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Mrs. Reed
Joan Fontaine Orson Welles Margaret O'Brien Peggy Ann Garner John Sutton Sara Allgood Henry Daniell Agnes Moorehead Aubrey Mather Edith Barrett Barbara Everest
governess pretty woman aristocrat housekeeper maid young girl emotional melodramatic dark england countryside estate yorkshire moors forbidden love romance may-december romance poverty class distinctions forbidden love love
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1960
134 Minutes
Mrs. Snow
Hayley Mills Jane Wyman Richard Egan Karl Malden Nancy Olson Adolphe Menjou Donald Crisp Agnes Moorehead Kevin Corcoran James Drury Reta Shaw
orphan aunt doctor hypochondriac reverend amusing moving emotional small town carnival church house orphanage small-town life positivity politics family friendship optimism growing up
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Drama
USA
1953
122 Minutes
Aunt Lydia
Moira Shearer Gottfried Reinhardt Leslie Caron Kirk Douglas Pier Angeli Ethel Barrymore Farley Granger James Mason Agnes Moorehead Zsa Zsa Gabor
governess trapeze artist choreographer ballerina boy witch melodramatic touching sad ocean liner rome london accidental death love romance wishes ambition traveling love metamorphosis
An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Musical
USA
1951
107 Minutes
Parthy Hawks
Kathryn Grayson Howard Keel Ava Gardner Joe E. Brown Gower Champion Marge Champion Robert Sterling Agnes Moorehead Adele Jergens William Warfield Leif Erickson
singer gambler husband wife daughter melodramatic powerful steamboat casino mississippi stage music gambling race relations marriage performance temptation discovery forbidden love 1900s
The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.
Comedy
USA
1961
109 Minutes
Judge Peterson
Bob Hope Lana Turner Janis Paige Jim Hutton Paula Prentiss Don Porter Virginia Grey Agnes Moorehead Florence Sundstrom Clinton Sundberg John McGiver
bachelor sexy woman husband manager housewife amusing dreamy suburbia household office california romance taxes jealousy writing discovery transformation forbidden love 1960s
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Miss Featherstone
Virginia Weidler Edward Arnold John Carroll Jean Porter Marta Linden Dick Simmons Ann Ayars Agnes Moorehead Marcia Mae Jones Raymond Roe Scotty Beckett
teen girl best friend mother father governess playful spirited new york city hotel apartment celebrities family deception jealousy misunderstanding quest growing up 1940s
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on ... See full summary »
Drama
1944
145 Minutes
Third Cousin's Wife
Katharine Hepburn Walter Huston Aline MacMahon Akim Tamiroff Turhan Bey Hurd Hatfield Frances Rafferty Agnes Moorehead Henry Travers Robert Lewis
wife son mother patriarch gutsy powerful solemn rousing southern china farm war feminism farming resistance fighters rural life sacrifice love transformation quest 1930s
A Chinese villager (Katharine Hepburn), her husband and in-laws (Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon) burn their land to foil Japanese invaders.
Sci-Fi, Horror
1973
185 Minutes
Mrs. Blair
James Mason Leonard Whiting Michael Sarrazin David McCallum Jane Seymour Nicola Pagett Michael Wilding Clarissa Kaye Agnes Moorehead Margaret Leighton Ralph Richardson
frankenstein's monster doctor mad scientist love interest mentor victor frankenstein creepy dark spectacular shocking england chateau laboratory london medical experiments playing god murder violence reanimation discovery
Victorian Dr. Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting) creates a male creature (Michael Sarrazin), then Dr. Polidori (James Mason) makes him create a female mate.
Western
USA
1962
164 Minutes
Carroll Baker Richard Thorpe Henry Hathaway Lee J. Cobb Henry Fonda Carolyn Jones Karl Malden Gregory Peck George Peppard Robert Preston
gambler fur trapper singer frontiersman captain lieutenant striking rousing moving wild west san francisco st. louis new york state gold rush american civil war native people rebellion family family history adventure
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century - including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.