- She was nicknamed "The O. Henry Girl" because she appeared in so many two-reel films based on O. Henry short stories for Vitagraph.
- She lost much of her fortune in the 1929 stock market crash.
- Her first big break at Vitagraph came when Alice Joyce noticed Agnes' resemblance to herself and had her cast in a minor part as her sister in Richard the Brazen (1917).
- Like Gloria Swanson, she was discovered while on tour at Essanay's Chicago studios.
- Was one of Cecil B. DeMille's female stars of the early 1920s. She starred in three of his productions: Forbidden Fruit (1921), The Affairs of Anatol (1921), and The Ten Commandments (1923).
- Posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6504 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960.
- Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.
- In September, 1937, she was reported to be working as a residential rental agent and was "practically penniless.".
- While under contract with Essanay Pictures in the 1910s, she shared a dressing room with Gloria Swanson.
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