Elizabeth Montgomery

About Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage and television.

She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular television series Bewitched.

The daughter of actor, director and producer Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series Robert Montgomery Presents and she won a Theater World Award for her 1956 Broadway debut in the production Late Love.

In the 1960s, she was celebrated for her role as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom Bewitched.

Her work on the series earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations.

After Bewitched ended its run in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in numerous television films, including A Case of Rape (1974), as Ellen Harrod and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), as Lizzie Borden, unaware that Lizzie Borden was her distant cousin.

Both roles earned her additional Emmy Award nominations.

Throughout her career, Montgomery was involved in various forms of political activism and charitable work.

In 1954, Montgomery married New York City socialite Frederick Gallatin Cammann; the couple divorced less than a year later. She was married to Academy Award winning actor Gig Young from 1956 to 1963 and then she was married to director-producer William Asher from 1963 until their divorce in 1973. They (Montgomery & Asher) had three children: William, Robert and Rebecca. The latter two pregnancies were incorporated into Bewitched as Samantha's pregnancies. During the eighth year of the show, Montgomery fell in love with director Richard Michaels. Their resulting affair led to the end of both of their marriages, as well as the end of the series. They moved in together when shooting ended in 1972; the relationship lasted two and a half years. On January 28, 1993, she married actor Robert Foxworth, after living with him for nearly 20 years. They remained married until her death in 1995.