She pursued post-graduate studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which she was graduated with honors in 1929.
She earned a bachelor's degree, with a major in biology, from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio in 1923.
She graduated from Central High School in 1918.
She willed her 1967 Emmy for The Wild Wild West and her private papers to Muskingum College, including her home in Rix Mills, Ohio. She left her family's Ohio estate and farmlands, Moorehead Manor, to Bob Jones University, as well as some biblical studies books from her personal library.
She is interred at Dayton Memorial Park in Dayton, Ohio.
For many years after her death there were rumors that she was gay, those rumors were proven wrong.
She and her husband John Griffith Lee adopted an orphan named Sean in 1949.
Her adopted son ran away.
Agnes has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, at 1719 Vine Boulevard.
Agnes was the first actress to portray Margot Lane, the girlfriend of Lamont Cranston, alter-ego of "The Shadow," in the radio series, from 1937-1939.
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