Fan Club

Mary Martin (1st December 1913 – 3rd November 1990)

Maria Callas (2nd December 1923 – 16th September 1977)

Agnes Moorehead (6th December 1900 – 30th April 1974)

Zeki Müren (6th December 1931 – 24th September 1996)

Concha Piquer (8th December 1908 – 12th December 1990)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (9th December 1915 – 3rd August 2006)

"Fan for me fan for me, fan!"

Imagination should never be limited

"Nothing is as dull as constant reality."

"Imagination should never be limited. It should be free and open, so it can soar. One has physical limitations or voice limitations, but the creativity in a person should never be limited."

"Actors have a magical difference from other people."

"[Endora] brings order out of chaos. I don't know anybody who hasn't said at some time 'Oh, I wish I didn't have to sweep the floor. I wish I didn't have to clean this or that. I wish I could snap my fingers and everything would be done!'"

"It's marvellous to be called a lovely witch!"

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (6th December 1900 - 30th April 1974)

Footnotes:

• Miss Moorehead's career was mentored in the early years by the great maestro Orson Welles, who launched her on screen in Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
• Despite her self-declared "fundamental" Christian beliefs and her lifelong support of the Republican Party, rumours abounded about her relationships with women including Paula Kelly; Paul Lynde once called her “one of the all-time Hollywood dykes”.
• Her exact cause of death is shrouded by gossip, but many people point to the fact that of the cast and crew of Howard Hughes' The Conqueror in which Miss Moorehead also starred, 91 individuals including John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Susan Hayward and director Dick Powell were all exposed to nuclear contamination on the film's location near a US testing site in Utah, and subsequently all died of various cancers.

Never alone

[with Rosie Clooney]

She collected gay icons...


[with Agnes Moorehead]


[with the Tilton sisters, the King sisters, Jo Stafford and Peggy Lee]

...and gays!


[with former "fiance" William Eythe]


[with husband - and gay porn star - Jack Wrangler]


[with Charles Pierce]

Dear Margaret Whiting would have been 90 years old today.

More of Miss Whiting over at Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle - here, here and here