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Elizabeth Montgomery
Age: 62 (passed away May. 18th, 1995)
Height: 5' 5 1/2"
Birth Place: Hollywood, California, USA
Born: Apr. 15th, 1933
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BIOGRAPHY: Elizabeth Montgomery was born into show business. Her parents were screen actor Robert Montgomery (I) and Broadway actress Elizabeth Bryan Allen. Elizabeth graduated from the Spence School in New York City and attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After three years intensive training, she made her TV debut in her father's 1950s playhouse series "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1950) and appeared in more than 200 live programs over the next decade. She once remarked "I guess you could say I'm a TV baby". Notable early film roles included The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) and Johnny Cool (1963). She is best remembered, however, for her leading role as the witch Samantha in the top-rated ABC sitcom "Bewitched" (1964). Her family - mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead), look-alike cousin (Montgomery) and advertising executive husband Darrin (first Dick York (I) then Dick Sargent) - tried to suppress her supernatural skills but often turned to her tricks to solve problems. The signal of impending witchcraft was a twitch of Samantha's nose. After her first and only TV series ended she turned to made-for-TV movies, many of which won critical praise: A Case of Rape (1974) (TV), The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) (TV), Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993) (TV). She narrated the movie The Panama Deception (1992) which won an Academy Award in 1993. Reference works showed her as 62 when she died though the family said she was 57. The family did not disclose the type of cancer which caused her death.
TRIVIA:
- She died 8 weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer and was cremated.
- Montgomery spent weekends and summers at the family farm in upstate Patterson, New York. Often referenced in episodes of _"Bewitched" (1964)_ (qv) as "Patterson Garage" or "Cushman Cosmetics", Cushman Road is the rural, dirt road on which the several hundred acre Montgomery estate is located.
- Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Samantha in _"Bewitched" (1964)_ (qv). When they were trying to figure out a trademark for the character Samantha, the director 'William Asher' (qv) noticed that when she got nervous, she twitched her upper lip, which caused her nose to follow and thus gave the impression she was twitching her nose. Thus, they used that.
- Appeared on an episode of _"The Flintstones" (1960)_ (qv), providing the voice of a cartoon version of her famous _"Bewitched" (1964)_ (qv) character, Samantha Stevens.
- Died on the same day as her _Johnny Cool (1963)_ (qv) co-star 'Elisha Cook Jr.' (qv).
- Received a posthumous star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on January 4, 2008.
- Children 'William Asher' (qv): William Jr (b. July 24, 1964), Robert (b. October 5, 1965), Rebecca Elizabeth (b. 17 June 1969).
- Daughter of 'Elizabeth Allen (IV)' (qv) and 'Robert Montgomery (I)' (qv).
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