I’d like to see something on television about an out-of-this-world creature like a witch who marries a regular man and wants to live the life of a typical housewife.
Yet, pause, the eight-season TV series Beguiled, which circulated somewhere in the range of 1964 and 1972, is definitively about that. You should look it up if you haven’t seen it yet.
Samantha Stephens, played by gorgeous Elizabeth Montgomery, captivated millions with her nose twitch on the show. In the 1960s, this actress rose to stardom, but her life was cut short.
Montgomery was brought into the world to a Broadway entertainer and film star in Los Angeles on April 15, 1933. Her father, Robert Montgomery, was an accomplished actor, and she followed in his footsteps.
“Dad says that after dinner, I used to climb on his lap and say, “I’m going to be an actress when I grow up,”” I don’t know whether he upheld me, yet he let me know he’d go along with me and encourage me to keep a watch out what happened when I grew up,” the entertainer told the Los Angeles Times in a 1954 meeting.
“I’ll tell the truth and concede that Daddy assisted me with getting a break in television, and I’m really thankful for his guide and direction. He is a true friend, my harshest critic, and a wonderful father.
As an adolescent, Montgomery made her television debut on her father’s show, Robert Montgomery Presents, before appearing on a number of other shows.
This stunning actress made her Broadway debut in Late Love at the age of 20, and two years later, she appeared in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell.
After becoming a household name, Montgomery appeared in a number of other films. Her other films include Mrs. Sundance in 1973, A Case of Rape in 1974, The Tale of Lizzie Borden in 1975, Black Widow Murders in 1993, The Body Had a Familiar Face in 1994, and Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995), but her most well-known performance is in Bewitched.
“I’d never considered doing a series since I preferred picking a screenplay I enjoyed with a person I figured I could hold for 60 minutes. ” In a series, you only hope it doesn’t make you crazy to live with one character every day,” Montgomery told the Associated Press in 1965.
The actress has had four marriages. After that, she got married to award-winning actor Gig Young, but they divorced in 1963. Montgomery met William Asher, her third husband, while filming Johnny Cool, with whom she had three children. Robert Foxworth was her fourth husband, and they were together until she died.
“Before Lindsay Wagner, Valerie Bertinelli, and Jane Seymour, Elizabeth was the first television movie queen; According to Herbie J. Pilato, the author of two volumes on the actress, “she went from the queen of the witches to the queen of the TV movie, and it was no longer a fight to break away from Bewitched.”
Montgomery thought she had beaten colon cancer when she passed away in 1995. Because the cancer had spread to her liver by the time she was examined, it was too late. In the company of her husband and daughters, she passed away peacefully in her sleep. At the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, her ashes were scattered.
The actress Elizabeth Montgomery was outstanding. We still terribly miss her.