The film was a considerable success and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead.

The radio drama also introduced female characters into The Shadow's realm, most notably Margo Lane ( played by Agnes Moorehead, among others ) as Cranston's love interest, crime-solving partner and the only person who knows his identity as The Shadow.

Moorehead also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1923, Moorehead earned a bachelor's degree, with a major in biology, from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and while there she also appeared in college stage plays.

By the mid 1940s, Moorehead joined MGM, negotiating a $ 6, 000-a-week contract with the provision to perform also on radio, an unusual clause at the time.

Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the CBS television series The Twilight Zone to script an episode with Moorehead in mind.

Moorehead also memorably supplied the voice of the friendly mother Goose in Hanna-Barbera's 1973 adaption of the E. B.

Players like Richard Widmark, Everett Sloane, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Ken Lynch, Anne Seymour, and Santos Ortega also found fame or notability in film or television.

Ruggles also played Aunt Clara's ( Marion Lorne ) old flame, the warlock Hedley Partridge as well as a Mr. Caldwell in the TV series Bewitched, with Agnes Moorehead, Dick York, and Elizabeth Montgomery.

" He also praised Da Silva, Moorehead, and the other supporting players for bringing " personality and credibility to this superior American film.

Veteran actresses Agnes Moorehead and Mary Astor also appeared in the film.

Moorehead was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

It was not until the 1950s, beginning with the release of Caged ( 1950 ), starring Eleanor Parker and Agnes Moorehead, So Young, So Bad ( also 1950 ), and Women's Prison ( 1955 ) with Ida Lupino and Cleo Moore, that an entire film was set inside a women's correctional facility.

" Moorehead's 1946 biography of Montgomery also remains well considered-" Moorehead was well able to see-as Wilmot calamitously didn't-that Eisenhower was Montgomery's superior in character and judgment.

With articles on Alice Guy-Blaché, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Veronica Lake, Elsa Lanchester, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Philbin, Barbara Steele, Vampira, Fay Wray and others, Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors also incorporated much material from the Castle of Frankenstein files of manuscripts and still photographs.

'" In her article, Moorehead characterized the group as " heavily biased towards politics of moderate conservatism and big business " and claims that the " farthest left is represented by a scattering of central social democrats ".

She left her family's Ohio estate and farmlands, Moorehead Manor, to Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, as well as some biblical studies books from her personal library.

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Alan Moorehead ( left ) and Alexander Clifford ( right ) during the North African Campaign

Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the series Bewitched.

Moorehead later shaved six years off her age by claiming to have been born in 1906.

Moorehead recalled her first public performance was at the age of three, reciting " The Lord's Prayer " in her father's church.

", while Moorehead and her sister would often engage in mimicry, often coming to the dinner table and imitating parishioners.

Moorehead noted and was encouraged by her father's amused reactions.

In addition to her interest in acting, she developed a lifelong interest in religion ; in later years actors such as Dick Sargent would recall Moorehead arriving on the set with " the Bible in one hand and the script in the other ".

Moorehead met the actress Helen Hayes who encouraged her to try to enter films, but her first attempts were met with failure.

Several of his radio performers joined him, and Moorehead made her film debut as his mother in Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), considered one of the best films ever made.

" In 1943 – 1944, Moorehead portrayed " matronly housekeeper Mrs. Mullet ", who was constantly offering her " candied opinion ", in Mutual Radio's The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall ; she inaugurated the role on CBS Radio.

Moorehead skillfully portrayed puritanical matrons, neurotic spinsters, possessive mothers, and comical secretaries throughout her career.

In " Sorry, Wrong Number " Moorehead offered a famed, bravura performance using only her voice, and for " The Invaders " she was offered a script where she had no dialogue at all.

Co-star Dick Sargent, who in 1969 replaced the ill Dick York as Samantha's husband, Darrin Stephens, had a more difficult relationship with Moorehead, caustically describing her as " a tough old bird.

In 1970, Moorehead appeared as a dying woman who haunts her own house in the early Night Gallery episode " Certain Shadows on the Wall.

In January 1974, three months before her death, Moorehead performed in two episodes ( including the very first ) of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, the popular series produced by old-time radio master Himan Brown.

Moorehead was a devout Presbyterian as she grew older, and, in interviews, often spoke of her relationship with God.

Shortly before her death, Moorehead sought Christian causes to benefit after her death through her estate.

Her mother, Mary M. Moorehead ( August 25, 1883 – June 8, 1990 ) survived her by 16 years, dying at the age of 106 in 1990.

Her close friend Sandra Gould, who was featured with her on Bewitched, recalls that long before Moorehead developed the uterine cancer that killed her in 1974, she recounted rumors of " some radioactive germs " on location in Utah, observing: " Everybody in that picture has gotten cancer and died.

Moorehead bequeathed her 1967 Emmy Award statue for The Wild Wild West, her private papers, and her home in Rix Mills, Ohio, to her alma mater Muskingum College.

During the 1960s, two major American universities pressed Moorehead to deposit his private papers as a core of their collections of contemporary writers.

Instead, in 1971, Alan and Lucy Moorehead brought his papers to Australia to present them in person to the National Library.

The Touchdown Tavern in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, opened the Agnes Moorehead Lounge, exhibiting memorabilia.

* Guide to over 100, 000 Moorehead documents spanning 1923 – 1974 at the Wisconsin Historical Society