The angelic beauty, talented actress Elizabeth Montgomery had shocked us all with her sudden passing in 1995. The talented actress would be 91 if she would be alive today.
The talented beauty was born on 15th of April, 1933, in Los Angeles. Her parents were in the entertainment industry, so it was clear that she would follow her parents’ footsteps.
“Dad tells me I often climbed on his lap after dinner and remarked, ‘I’m going to be an actress when I grow up.’ I don’t know whether he encouraged me or not, but he told me he would humor me and would tell me to wait and see what happened when I grew up,” Elizabeth shared in 1954.
”I’ll be real honest and say that Daddy did help me get a break in TV and I’m really grateful for his assistance and guidance. He’s my most severe critic, but also a true friend as well as loving father.”
After she studied in California, she moved to New York City, and attended to Spence School. Then she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for three years.
In 1953, she starred in Late Love, in 1955, two years later, Montgomery appeared in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell.
She married Frederick Gallatin Cammann in 1954, but a year later they were divorced. In 1956, she tried her chance with Gig Young, but again, they got divorced in 1963.
Then, in 1963, Montgomery got married with William Asher, while they were shooting Johnny Cool. They had three children.
Montgomery appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Loretta Young Show, The Untouchables, and The Twilight Zone, and Bewitched. She reached to a huge fame between 1964 and 1972.
”I’d never thought much about a series because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out – and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy,” Montgomery shared.
“Before Jane Seymour, before Lindsay Wagner and before Valerie Bertinelli, Elizabeth was the first Queen of the TV movies; she went from queen of the witches to queen of the TV movie and it was no longer a struggle to break away from Bewitched,” Herbie J. Pilato, who wrote two books about Elizabeth Montgomery, shared.
In an interview which happened in 1992, Elizabeth said, “They all have different kinds of ‘feels’ to them and that’s probably one of the reasons why I’ve done them. I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I’ve done since ‘Bewitched’ is that they never know what I’m going to do next.”
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