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Agnes Moorehead: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

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Kear has done fairly well over all, but several of her reference sections are incomplete. Also, she seems to go out of her way to print reviews of Miss Moorehead's films/TV appearances that are negative and in some cases downright insulting. My overall impression is that Kear, as she did her research, began (for whatever reason) to dislike Miss Moorehead. In spite of these glaring and obvious flaws, there is some good information here, I just wish it had been put together by someone with a little more repect and admiration for her esteemed subject.

Lynn Kear's "Agnes Moorehead: A Bio-Bibliography" is a superb reference book. Written in a time before the internet she was able through exhaustive research to compile an incredible listing of Miss Moorehead's considerable credits on stage, screen, radio and television. She also includes synopses of most of these performances along with contemporary reviews. The Biography section is limited (as was expected with this type of book in the series) but includes many interesting nuggets which at that time was not known to many Moorehead fans. Credit Kear for discovering, too, what Agnes' true birth year was--up to that time most people took Agnes at her word that she born in 1906, but Miss Kear came up with the truth. As a fellow writer and biographer of Agnes Moorehead (I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead) I found this book to be a godsend.