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Moorehead died of uterine cancer on April 30, 1974, [26] in Rochester, Minnesota, aged 73. [2] Moorehead was one of many people to have developed cancer after exposure to radioactive fallout from atmospheric atomic bomb tests [27] while making The Conqueror (1956) with John Wayne in Iron City, Utah.
May 1, 1974 · Agnes Moorehead, the actress, died yesterday in the Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minn., where she had been under the care of Mayo Clinic physicians. She was 67 years old.
Apr 30, 2021 · Late actress Agnes Moorehead lost her life 47 years ago today to uterine cancer. She died at 67 years old at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minn. Her mother, who died in 1990 at 106, was her sole survivor.
Apr 24, 2024 · Moorehead died at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. She was 67. At her request, there was no funeral and her body was shipped by train to be buried in Dayton, Ohio, in the same cemetery as her father. It was also her wish that the cause of her death not be made public, according to her attorney at the time, Franklin Rohner.
Jan 17, 2021 · Moorehead died on April 30, 1974, at age 73 from uterine cancer. Moorehead's long career actually stretched back to the early 1930s when she performed on radio, and she finally made her film debut in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
May 1, 1974 · Agnes Moorehead, whose acting career spanned half a century and almost every character role from glamorous divorcee to acid-tongued witch, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Rochester,...
Agnes Moorehead. Actress: The Magnificent Ambersons. Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants.
Her death from cancer in 1974 halted a diverse career while immortalizing Moorehead in the pantheon of American pop culture icons. Agnes Robertson Moorehead was born in Clinton, MA on Dec. 6, 1900.
Apr 30, 2014 · According to Hollywood legend, Moorehead’s movie career may have led to her death of uterine cancer, 40 years ago today. Moorehead was in the cast of the 1956 John Wayne movie The Conqueror,...
Death. Agnes Moorehead died of uterine cancer in Rochester, Minnesota on April 30, 1974, not lung cancer as was long believed. She was 73 years of age.
