The Gaming Gang October Spooktacular 2021 - Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Number (1943)
Jeff McAleer,
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Most people remember Agnes Moorehead simply from her turn as Elizabeth Montgomery's mother Endora on Bewitched. Yet Moorehead enjoyed a thirty plus year career in film, radio, and television. She acted in two of the perhaps greatest films in history: Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. Add to those laurels the fact she also starred in one of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time: Sorry, Wrong Number on Suspense. Moorehead performed the acclaimed Lucille Fletcher radio play seven times on Suspense as well as number of other programs. I've always found it interesting Agnes Moorehead also was able to negotiate a very unique contract with Metro Goldwin Mayer back in the mid 1940s. This was at a time when many actors and actresses were under contract to a particular studio and couldn't just go make movies wherever they liked. Moorehead had a clause which allowed her to appear on any radio show of her choosing. This was at a time when studios didn't want many of their stars to appear on radio. Moorehead explained MGM usually refused to allow their actors to appear on radio, as "the actors didn't have the knowledge or the taste or the judgment to appear on the right sort of show. This is certainly going to be the right sort of show so let's turn out the lights and give a listen to Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead, on Suspense as it aired May 25th, 1943.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.