That's real class. Something money can't buy.

She spoke negatively about Darren Stephens

@thegaynomad True. Darin, portrayed by Dick York, habitually feuded with Endora on Bewitched. But outside of this favorite comedy sitcom of mine, they were real life friends.

Me too so articulate

@@jeffreyj3906She was a college professor before she became an actress

Ditto!!!

Yes... Forever and a day! :)

“The Invaders” brilliant woman. Shame about what happened to her, John Wayne and the rest of cast and crew of “The Conquer.”

her best performance was as the sad old aunt, who was drowned out by the sound of automobiles taking over the earth in Orson Welles "The Magnificent Ambersons"

AMEN! God rest her soul!

Elizabeth was in one as well, wasn’t she?

She did scream, however.

@MASTER BLASTER You needn't worry. Predatory capitalism is alive and well.

MASTER BLASTER apparently not being racist, sexist, or overall bigoted you can’t be creative... what universe do you live in freak?

raised by wolves...

Because elocution, etiquette and the art of charm is no longer valued nor taught. People are taught now to "be themself" and to "express" except what the "themself" is, is usually a hideous mess! Despite what people say, there is an art to being charming, and it has value. Agnes Moorehead had kinaesthetic presence and understood the value of gesture, posture, and stage presence. Compare Moorehead at her age in this video with other great actresses of our generation like Meryl Streep. See the difference in how they speak. Meryl for example can't sit still in interviews. She screeches and squawks and grimaces and is overly politically correct at every turn. She wants to appear like a feminist constantly and yet these actresses didn't try to be feminists. They just did their job which was to act. Same for many other actresses these days. They're over the top and ridiculous and inappropriate when being interviewed. I would recommend that any actress or emerging actress study Agnes Moorehead as a case study for how to speak, project ones voice, how to navigate persona and manage stagecraft. She was truly a very unique and masterful actress and should be recognised today as someone of great skill and expertise. A truly wonderful artist in all her early films. Decades before she portrayed the campy Endora on Bewitched, Moorehead had come to portray hospital matrons, nurses, school teachers, governesses, mansion mistresses and confidantes in all her performances. Her mere presence to me in any film meant that the film immediately gained an atmosphere around it. Her characters mesmerised and had such power and agency. In this way, she was a true feminist, well before any of the current crop of post-hippy actors like Streep were. Moorehead was a far getter actress than anyone I can think of really in the true sense of the term: "actress". The rest are boring "movie stars" or celebrities, which is a whole other kettle of rotting fish.

Homer Nœticus I couldn’t agree more. In this interview Agnes Moorehead comes across as being very down-to-earth and displays a great sense of humour, but is still every inch a lady: a paragon of timeless elegance. Who, only familiar with her as Endora (and it was a true delight to watch her in that role), could envision her as the Prescott matriarch, a no-nonsense pioneer woman, in “How the West Was Won”? Just one of many peerless performances.

REVELATION

Yeah, sad the US government killed her, John Wayne, Susan Hayward and a ton of other people on The Conqueror.

@@LearnAboutFlow the government didn’t kill her GROW UP !! Disgusting comment !!

@@LearnAboutFlow I've just seen your reply - yes, it's believed the cast of that movie, who got above average diagnoses of various cancers, contracted them as a result of top secret nuclear testing done nearby the film set. Does anyone know if the government was ever found liable, and made to pay the victims/families compensation?

Did she know already she was ill at that time?

Hard to believe she left this world half a century ago, sadly

❤️ her too!

She has always been a favorite of mine!

Just her voice! Don’t care what she’s saying!!

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Too bad the two ladies never played opposite each other. That would have been fun to watch!

Also MIss Marjorie Main was the 3rd great character actress. I heard she was offscreen a sweet quiet lady

@@johnnymfan5065 Yes, sweet and a little, shall we say, off centre?

Nothing against Teresa Wright, but AM should have won best supporting actress in 1942.

Incredible performance.

One of my favorite episodes.

Alien nation/alienation.

She and Greer were in aA movie together

Hush, hush, with bogie too

Lost her voice?

"Quality" is a vague term.

LOL @ ETHEL AND DICK

glamdolly20 You got that right!

The film Dark Passage with Agnes chewing the scenery and Bogart and Becall is watchable over and over.

Just love listening to her and her diction and class. Another is Diana Rigg, it's too bad they never did anything together.

@@WndD_74 Oh yes, that I would love to see - Dame Diana is another class act!

Sandy me too I could listen to her talk all day. And to have been on the set of Bewitched

greginfl Agree. Cavett set a relaxed, conversational tone that put guests at ease.

So true! Today's talk shows are all about egos. They are sickening whereas this show was lovely and intelligent. Kindness, graciousness and really smart people. So sad we've gone so far downhill.

I fail to see the talent of Ethel Merman. She was a ballsy loud New Yorker and nasally.

@@user-zy3zd3sx2d You fail.

I have heard that Bette Davis once said Agnes never understood how beautiful she really was.

I completely agree. They always had her play the “other” and I often think, hold it, I think she’s much more beautiful than the “beauty”!!!

I; Totally agree with St. Michael----. Today's* stars are cheap salesmen. I, do not even look at today*s. Hollywood anymore& I am only. *62... I, rem Agnes Morehead& no one could act better than Better Davis!!!! Joan Crawford,despite her char. flws lived her fans---- can today's*s stars say that. Today pp. do one little thing& think they, are stars. Thanks Michael for. the memories###$

All fascinating women (which you list here) to be sure, but Greta Garbo never did an interview with Cavett or anybody else. If there is an interview of her anywhere, I would happily pay to see it.

Yes, they are boring, childish, not funny and the guests even more so.

He also did his homework prior to his guests' appearance.

Interviewer needs a sense of boundary also a chemistry between themselves and the person interviewed. It's a natural phenomenon to speak to the human spirit on a level of compassion understanding Something very genuine a person feels that the interview goes great!

I sense a bit of Al Jolson in her performances

Absolutely! Dick Cavett looks so awkward around her, he was aptly named! How the hell did he get that job and, even more staggering, hang onto it for all those years? He hung around the most talented stars in the world and never absorbed an atom of their charisma!

glamdolly20 You should see Cavett doing the show with Janis Joplin, Margot Kidder and Gloria Swanson. I thought his head would explode due to estrogen overload.

Hilarious! Thanks, I'll have to look that out! X

Can you imagine Jolson and Merman in the same room? I wonder who'd win.

The Joplin/Swanson show was about as eclectic a gathering as you can imagine.

Yes, one of my all-time favorite TZ episodes. Her television co-stars Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery also appeared in memorable TZ episodes.

kyolym The Twilight Zone was the best. I've seen every episode, including the one you mentioned with Miss Moorhead.

You said it, Chuck. George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin would also agree, so you're in great company.

Chuck Snyder nice

I have her disco album. It's pretty hilarious.

Y'know, I can't believe this is my first time seeing Ethyl Merman. I have heard her name my whole life, and I never really knew who she was? A delightful woman. I've heard a recording of her singing that Plymouth Rock song and I liked it. I love her singing style, it's like she's sing shouting on key, which is not easy to do.

@Un Believer Unless she's singing from the diaphragm, which is the correct way to sing.

Long gone. You can count on one hand the number of entertainers with class these days.

Kirk Barkley so TRUE!!

If you want a real treat, watch "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte," where Bette and Agnes act together. Both were beyond terrific.

@@WellConditioned "Oh Miss Charlotte, we've got to get you out of here now"!

"acclimation" HAHAHA

Welles didn't like the ending of "Ambersons" that the studio tacked on while he was in South America doing films to help the war effort. His ending was darker and more realistic. Nevertheless, it's a masterpiece which is at least 90% Welles.

Indeed.........great observation..........sad...........

"spruiking"

Be sure to see her performance in *Dark Passage*, a Bogart & Bacall film from 1947. She plays an icy, manipulative woman named _Madge Rapf_

Love to see her movies she done before bewitched.

They aren't "stars" as in the older terminology, just self absorbed "wanna-be''s that never will...boring.

Anges Moorehead was one of the real stars those Kardashian jenners are plelps

Did you see her in "Hush Hush....Sweet Charlotte"? Equally noteworthy, as is "The Magnificent Ambersons". And of course, she originally did the radio play of "Sorry...Wrong Number".

Kevin McGuire Agnes Moorhead was also in an episode of twilight zone called the invaders, she didn't speak a word.

She was absolutely fabulous as the ill-fated matriarch of the Prescott Family in “How the West Was Won” (1963).

I think she was the best part of that movie. " Sylveeeesterrrr... SHUT UP AND LET ME TALK!!!"

Ethel stole that movie. I've seen that movie any number of times over the years and she's still hysterically funny!

That's how the Old Guard still speaks in New England.

Blond Those would be 'Coco Chanel' - "beads."

I think the sound guys would’ve also like to get their hands on them, or her hands off them!

Wish I hadn't read this just now.

@@longfield0023 Yes she died one year later of uterine cancer.

@@jamesmc1016 How sad. She was a lovely very intelligent lady. The world was better for having her in it. Glad we can still watch some of her work.