There is no doubt that Sean was a foster child, he was never adopted. There has been misinformation reported on this, including by Agnes herself in interviews, but among the documentary evidence the bottom line is in her last will and testament, where she declares that she has no children natural or adopted.

Historically, the question of the cause of the estrangement of Agnes and Sean has not had a clear answer — some sources saying that he ran away, and some that she asked him to leave. However, in an interview I conducted this summer with one of Agnes’ old friends I learned what I believe is more likely to be the truth — that the end came in a stalemate of their two wills.

Sean had just graduated high school (he completed his last two years of high school in Beverly Hills, was no longer in boarding schools) and did not wish to go on to college. He was still living in Agnes’ house, although he would have been eighteen by then and as such the fostering arrangement would legally have concluded. Agnes was against Sean’s staying out very late at night and advised him that the next time he came home late he would find the house locked. Soon after, Sean stayed out very late and upon his return found the house was indeed locked. He went on his way and did not return (except perhaps one time as burglar while Agnes was working out of town). Agnes did not attempt to find him. It is believed that they two had no further contact.

However, being the obsessive person I am when I make a new and exciting discovery, and she’s about as good as they get when it comes to actors, just from the time I’ve spent gleaning information from the internet, I’m going to express my belief that what would appear to be facts about her sexuality have not been taken into consideration.

I just don’t get how anyone including Tranberg can assert, despite the apparent lack of real evidence, that there is not enough other equally valid information to conclude, as I have, that Agnes was bisexual or lesbian.

There was clearly a very strong possibility that she was bisexual, perhaps more in her later years to the point where you could say that she may have even been exclusively lesbian.

Charles – are you or are you not aware of the following quotes and information?

It is on the public record that Agnes Moorehead said in an interview with Boze Hadleigh, “Love doesn’t have a sex..a woman may love a person who is this or that, male or female…you apparently have your own informants. I don’t know what you’ve heard, and I don’t want to hear. Some of it may even be true.”

It is documented in her obituary in the New York Times of May 1, 1974 (I was 2! How I wish she had lived for as long as she could have, if she hadn’t made The Conqueror – into this very decade!) that Agnes Moorehead said, “I have played so many authoritative and strong characters that some people are nervous at the prospect of meeting me. There is a certain amount of aloofness on my part at times, because an actor can so easily be hurt by unfair criticism. I think an artist should be kept separated to maintain glamour and a kind of mystery. I don’t believe in the girl next door image. What that actor has to sell to the public is mystery, a magic kind of ingredient that should not be analyzed.”

I don’t know the source for this one but she also replied to a well-known/credible publication/journalist, when asked if like Greta Garbo etc etc if she had ever had a sexual relationship with another woman, “But these women were more beautiful than me”.

To me, these comments are admissions that she was bisexual or lesbian – but admissions from a woman who isn’t going to say simply “Yes” (and she even gives her reasons for her reticence, to which I would add being a fundamental Christian). Also as a fundamental Christian, she isn’t going to deny it and simply say “No” because she didn’t want to lie. She didn’t want to come right out and admit it but she admitted it in the classy and restrained way you would have expected from a supremely elegant, uniquely and stunningly beautiful and incredibly talented and underrated woman that leaves very little doubt.

There is more, by the way – another time.

I believed at the time and have continued to think she was married to Paul Gregory at the time, so was surprised to see nothing in her biography to confirm that as fact.