Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards.
20th Century Fox publicity photograph, c. 1964
Moorehead in the trailer for Citizen Kane (1940)
Harry Shannon, George Coulouris and Agnes Moorehead in Citizen Kane (1941)
Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead, and Ray Collins in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. The Mercury also released promptbooks and phonographic recordings of four Shakespeare works for use in schools.
Poster for the Mercury Theatre's three spring 1938 productions—Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Cradle Will Rock—running simultaneously in two Broadway theaters
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario
Orson Welles as Brutus in Caesar (1937–38)
Marian Warring-Manley (Margery), Whitford Kane (Simon Eyre) and George Coulouris (The King) in The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938)
