Elizabeth Montgomery

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Elizabeth Montgomery Wiki Biography

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was born on 15 April 1933, in Los Angeles, California, USA, of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Elizabeth was an actress, probably best known for her characterisation of Samantha Stephens in the series “Bewitched”. She also had parts in television films including “The Legend of Lizzie Borden”, and “A Case of Rape”. All of her efforts helped put her net worth to where it was prior to her passing from cancer in 1995.

How rich was Elizabeth Montgomery? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that was at $5 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. She was part of the industry for over five decades and found success on various platforms, all of which contributed to the position of her wealth before her death.

Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Daniel Bryan Montgomery, both of whom were actors. She attended Westlake School for Girls and then Spence School. After matriculating, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, studying there for three years.

One of her earliest opportunities was as part of his father’s show “Robert Montgomery Presents”, in which she appeared occasionally. She would go on and make her debut on Broadway in “Late Love”, for which she won an award for her performance, and was soon cast for her first film – “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”. While doing films, she continued appearing in Broadway performances as well, and her popularity was growing on television as well, playing parts in “Johnny Staccato”, “The Twilight Zone”, and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in an episode of “The Untouchables”. Other titles of early films she was a part of include “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?” and “Johnny Cool”. Her net worth certainly grew steadily.

Montgomery would earn a significant amount of popularity and net worth when she became part of the sitcom “Bewitched”. She played the star role of Samantha Stephens, and the show would become a huge success in ratings, airing from 1964 to 1972, with the final season aired the following year despite problems between Elizabeth and the director William Asher. During this time, she won numerous awards and also lent her voice for the series highly popular TV series “The Flintstones”.

Later in her career, she took on film parts that were vastly different from her character in “Bewitched”. Occasionally she would appear on Japanese television reprising the same type of character, but then she started to go for more dramatic and serious roles. Montgomery was nominated for her roles in films such as “A Case of Rape”, and “The Legend of Lizzie Borden “. She continued making these genres of films, and even had a villainous role in “Amos”. She did her last Broadway production in 1989 entitled “Love Letters” and one of her final projects was voicing for “Batman: The Animated Series”.

For her personal life, her first marriage was to Frederick Gallatin Cammann in 1954, but it lasted for less than a year, however, two years later she would marry actor Gig Young, but they divorced in 1963. but she then married William Asher in the same year. They had three children, but also divorced in 1973. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth in 1993, and they remained together until her death. In 1995, Elizabeth was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, of which she had already been displaying symptoms while working that year. The diagnosis was severe as there was no longer anything the doctors could do, so she went home and died just two months later. Her home was sold and it eventually became Wonder Lake State Park.

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Elizabeth Montgomery Quick Info

Full Name Elizabeth Montgomery
Net Worth $5 Million
Date Of Birth April 15, 1933
Died May 18, 1995, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Place Of Birth Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Height 1.72 m
Profession Actress
Education Spence School
Nationality American
Spouse Robert Foxworth (m. 1993–1995), Spouse William Asher (m. 1963–1973), Former spouse Gig Young (m. 1956–1963), Former spouse Frederic Gallatin Cammann (m. 1954–1955)
Children Rebecca Asher, Bill Asher, Robert Asher
Parents Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Bryan Allen
Siblings Robert Montgomery Jr., Martha Bryan Montgomery
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000548/
Awards TV Land Superlatively Supernatural Award
Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Se…
Movies The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Case of Rape, Johnny Cool, Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?, Sins of the Mother, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, Mrs. Sundance, Act Of Violence, Dark Victory, Second Sight: A Love Story, When the Circus Came to Town, Amos, Belle Starr, A Killing Affair, The Corpse H…
TV Shows Password Plus and Super Password, Challenge of the Super Friends, Bewitched, The Eleventh Hour, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Saints and Sinners, Frontier Circus, The Tab Hunter Show, DuPont Show of the Month, Suspicion, Warner Bros. Presents, Appointment with Adventure

Elizabeth Montgomery Trademarks

  1. Deep, sultry voice.
  2. The role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched (1964).
  3. Blonde hair, green eyes.
  4. Nose twitch

Elizabeth Montgomery Quotes

  • I was never bored on the set, not one minute for 8 years was I bored. Does that sound so disgustingly Pollyanna you can hardly stand it? Because it’s not. It was like going to college for 8 years and taking an in depth course in what you really wanted to do. So it was very, very exciting for me, I mean I learned a lot of stuff, a lot.
  • [when asked if it’s hard to juggle working and raising kids] Yes it is, and as a result, I will never win any Mother of the Year awards, I hope I’m getting better. Everybody I think, parents and kids have to grow up together. Nobody can really ready you for motherhood whether you work or whether you don’t. Parenting is probably the toughest job anybody’s ever had, and I’m haven’t been really good at it, but like I say, I think I’ve gotten better.
  • [on her father’s reaction to her wanting to be an actress] He told me ‘If that’s what you want to do, you’re gonna really want to have to do it because there’s no room out there for some gutless wonder wandering around, you know, there are too many talented people’. And he said it’s one of the most horrifyingly, ego-blasting, destructive, awful, businesses that you can possibly get into, and he said ‘I really wouldn’t really wish it on anyone I care even a little bit about’. So knowing he cared more than a little bit about me, I thought ‘Whoops, this is really tough a one’. However after that conversation, he did say to me that when it is rewarding and it is good, it is such a high you can’t imagine it, and he’s right.
  • [commenting on Tabitha (1976), the spin-off of Bewitched (1964)] First of all, I didn’t see the show, but I heard that she [Lisa Hartman] didn’t twitch as well as I did. I kept getting mail from people were who outraged, saying, Where is Erin Murphy? What in the world (is going on)?! This woman is 25…this doesn’t make any sense.’ I was getting mail from people like it was my fault, although also saying, ‘Thank God you didn’t have anything to do with this.’ They felt betrayed. I thought, ‘How can you be betrayed by a TV show?’ But they were irate. I got almost as much mail about that as I get about anything else. It was very funny…ranged from kids who hated it to grownups who said, ‘This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.’
  • Like most people, I secretly hope that it’s true – that there are witches like Samantha, and that families like hers really do exist.
  • The minute someone says, “Oh God, you could never do that; you can’t get that kind of stuff on the air!” . . . that’s the kind of stuff I want to do.

Elizabeth Montgomery Important Facts

  • Her ex-Bewitched (1964) co-star, Erin Murphy, is 1 month older than one of Montgomery’s children, in real-life, whose name is: William Asher Jr.
  • Acting mentor and friend of Erin Murphy.
  • On a couple episodes of Bewitched (1964), she was pregnant with two children, retrospectively, in real-life, she was pregnant, twice more, within 4 years, with Robert and Rebecca.
  • When her Bewitched (1964) co-star, Dick York, had serious health problems, between the third and fifth seasons, she and co-star, Erin Murphy became more concerned about him, who left the show, after the fifth season.
  • Friends with primarily everybody on the Screen Gems lot: Shirley Jones, Dave Madden, Dick York, Dick Sargent, Sally Field, Don Porter, Agnes Moorehead, Maurice Evans, David White, William Asher, Kasey Rogers, Shirley Booth, Alice Pearce, Jonathan Harris, Marion Lorne, Harry Ackerman, Bernard Fox, Mabel Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Paul Lynde, Richard Michaels, Bernie Kopell and Sandra Gould.
  • She was known to be a very private person.
  • Several obituaries listed her as single and age 57 when she was actually married to Robert Foxworth and age 62. Her death certificate listed her name as Elizabeth A. Montgomery though her middle name was Victoria.
  • Was the only cast member to appear in all 254 episodes of Bewitched (1964).
  • Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 36, a daughter, Rebecca Asher, on June 17, 1969. Child’s father is her 3rd husband, William Asher Jr.
  • Is only 3 days older than Jayne Mansfield. Montgomery was born April 15, 1933, and Mansfield was born April 19, 1933.
  • Gave birth to her 1st child at age 31, a son, William Asher Jr., on July 24, 1964. Child’s father is her 3rd husband, William Asher Sr.
  • Gave birth to her 2nd Child at age 32, a son, Robert Asher, on October 5, 1965. Child’s father is her 3rd husband, William Asher Sr.
  • She was a staunch liberal Democrat and feminist who was an activist for LGBT rights.
  • She was two months pregnant with her first child, son William Asher Jr., when she filmed the pilot episode of Bewitched (1964), _I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha_. She returned to work two months after giving birth to resume filming the 1st season. The same situation was when she was eight months pregnant with her second child, son Robert Asher – she took maternity leave from filming the 2nd season and returned to work two months after giving birth.
  • Was 7 months pregnant with her third child, daughter Rebecca Asher, when she took maternity leave from filming the 6th season of Bewitched (1964). Returned to work one month after giving birth.
  • In a parody of her “Samantha Stephens” role, she made a cameo appearance as a witch at the end of the beach party film, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), directed by her then-husband, William Asher.
  • Stepmother of Bo Foxworth.
  • Older sister of Robert Montgomery Jr..
  • Elizabeth Montgomery and Lizzie Borden were sixth cousins once removed, both descending from 17th-century Massachusetts resident John Luther. Rhonda McClure, the genealogist who documented the Montgomery-Borden connection, said, “I wonder how Elizabeth would have felt if she knew she was playing her own cousin.”.
  • Turned down the role of “Krystle Carrington” on Dynasty (1981).
  • She fell in love with director Richard Michaels during filming of the eighth season of Bewitched (1964), and moved in with him when the season was complete. This broke up both their marriages and ended the possibility of a ninth season. The relationship lasted two and a half years.
  • Was a grand marshal with former TV husband Dick Sargent at the 1992 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade. Elizabeth was a supporter of gay rights and also women’s rights throughout her life.
  • Received a posthumous star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on January 4, 2008.
  • Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Samantha in Bewitched (1964). When they were trying to figure out a trademark for the character Samantha, the director William Asher 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.
  • A 9 foot bronze statue of Elizabeth as Samantha Stephens riding sidesaddle on her broomstick now resides in a downtown park in Salem, Massachusetts, home to the infamous witch trials of the 17th century.
  • Montgomery spent weekends and summers at the family farm in upstate Patterson, New York. Often referenced in episodes of Bewitched (1964) as “Patterson Garage” or “Cushman Cosmetics”, Cushman Road is the rural, dirt road on which the several hundred acre Montgomery estate is located.
  • Appeared on The Flintstones (1960) episode, The Flintstones: Samantha (1965), providing the voice of a cartoon version of her famous Bewitched (1964) character, “Samantha Stevens”.
  • Ranked #52 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women”(1995).
  • She died on the same day as her Johnny Cool (1963) co-star Elisha Cook Jr..
  • Biography in: “American National Biography”. Supplement 1, pp. 422-423. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • She lost out on the part of Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954) to Eva Marie Saint. Director Elia Kazan, in his autobiography “A Life,” says that the choice of an actress to play the part was narrowed down to Montgomery and Saint. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. Kazan thought this genteel quality would not be becoming for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ. Despite qualms about 30-year old Saint playing a teen, she was cast in the part and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
  • She was a sister of Robert Montgomery Jr.. She also had an older sister, Martha Bryan, (born October 13, 1930), but she died of spinal meningitis at the age of 14 months, before Elizabeth was born.
  • Daughter of Elizabeth Allen and Robert Montgomery.
  • She died 8 weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer and was cremated.
  • Children with William Asher: William Asher Jr. (b. July 24, 1964), Robert Asher (b. October 5, 1965) and Rebecca Asher (Rebecca Elizabeth Asher) (b. 17 June 1969).
  • She and Robert Foxworth lived together for nineteen years before finally marrying.

Elizabeth Montgomery Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Batman: The Animated Series 1995 TV Series Barmaid Actress
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan 1995 TV Movie Edna Buchanan Actress
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face 1994 TV Movie Edna Buchanan Actress
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story 1993 TV Movie Blanche Taylor Moore Actress
With Murder in Mind 1992 TV Movie Gayle Wolfer Actress
Sins of the Mother 1991 TV Movie Ruth Coe Actress
Face to Face 1990 TV Movie Dr. Diana Firestone Actress
Between the Darkness and the Dawn 1985 TV Movie Abigail Foster Actress
Amos 1985 TV Movie Daisy Daws Actress
Second Sight: A Love Story 1984 TV Movie Alaxandra McKay Actress
Missing Pieces 1983 TV Movie Sara Scott Actress
The Rules of Marriage 1982 TV Movie Joan Hagen Actress
When the Circus Came to Town 1981 TV Movie Mary Flynn Actress
Belle Starr 1980 TV Movie Belle Starr Actress
Act of Violence 1979 TV Movie Catherine McSweeney Actress
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story 1979 TV Movie Jennifer Prince Actress
The Awakening Land 1978 TV Mini-Series Sayward Luckett Wheeler Actress
A Killing Affair 1977 TV Movie Vikki Eaton Actress
Dark Victory 1976 TV Movie Katherine Merrill Actress
The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 TV Movie Lizzie Borden Actress
A Case of Rape 1974 TV Movie Ellen Harrod Actress
Mrs. Sundance 1974 TV Movie Etta Place Actress
The Victim 1972 TV Movie Kate Wainwright Actress
Bewitched 1964-1972 TV Series Samantha Stephens
Serena
Tour Guide
Actress
The Flintstones 1965 TV Series Samantha Stephens Actress
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 1965 Bwana’s Daughter, The Witches Witch (uncredited) Actress
On the Run 1965 TV Movie Samantha Stevens (uncredited) Actress
Bikini Beach 1964 Lady Bug (voice, uncredited) Actress
Burke’s Law 1963-1964 TV Series Smitty / Stacey Evans Actress
Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? 1963 Mellisa Morris Actress
The Eleventh Hour 1963 TV Series Polly Saunders Actress
77 Sunset Strip 1963 TV Series Charlotte Delaville Actress
Rawhide 1963 TV Series Rose Cornelius Actress
Johnny Cool 1963 Darien ‘Dare’ Guiness Actress
Boston Terrier 1963 TV Movie Millie Curtain Actress
Saints and Sinners 1963 TV Series Eadie Donelli Actress
Alcoa Premiere 1962 TV Series Iris Hecate Actress
Checkmate 1962 TV Series Vicki Page Actress
Frontier Circus 1961 TV Series Karina Andrews Actress
Thriller 1961 TV Series Rosamond Denham Actress
Theatre ’62 1961 TV Series Actress
The Spiral Staircase 1961 TV Movie Helen Warren Actress
The Twilight Zone 1961 TV Series The Woman Actress
The Untouchables 1960 TV Series Rusty Heller Actress
One Step Beyond 1960 TV Series Lillie Clarke Actress
The Tab Hunter Show 1960 TV Series Hilary Fairfield Actress
Bells Are Ringing 1960 Girl Reading Book (uncredited) Actress
Wagon Train 1959 TV Series Julie Crail Actress
Johnny Staccato 1959 TV Series Fay Linn Benton Actress
Riverboat 1959 TV Series Abigail Carruthers Actress
The Third Man 1959 TV Series Lorraine Borka Actress
The Loretta Young Show 1959 TV Series Millie Actress
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1958 TV Series Karen Adams Actress
Cimarron City 1958 TV Series Ellen Wilson Actress
The DuPont Show of the Month 1958 TV Series Miss Kelly Actress
The Investigator 1958 TV Series Actress
Bitter Heritage 1958 TV Movie Mary Brecker Actress
Suspicion 1958 TV Series Ellen Actress
Playhouse 90 1958 TV Series Mary Brecker Actress
Studio One in Hollywood 1955-1958 TV Series Marcia Loring Adams / Maggie / Helen Durand Actress
Kraft Theatre 1954-1957 TV Series Ann Evans / Marilyn Shepard Actress
Robert Montgomery Presents 1951-1956 TV Series Betty / Claire / Jen Deveraux / … Actress
Climax! 1956 TV Series Betsy Actress
Warner Brothers Presents 1956 TV Series Laura Woodruff Actress
Appointment with Adventure 1955-1956 TV Series Actress
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell 1955 Margaret Lansdowne Actress
Armstrong Circle Theatre 1953-1954 TV Series Ellen Craig Actress
Belle Starr 1980 TV Movie performer: “If I Marry You” Soundtrack
Bewitched 1966-1970 TV Series performer – 6 episodes Soundtrack
The Hollywood Palace 1966 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Bewitched 1964 TV Series creative consultant Miscellaneous
Celebrity Recordathon 1996 Video short Herself Self
Entertainment Tonight 1985-1994 TV Series Herself Self
The Panama Deception 1992 Documentary Narrator (English version) (voice) Self
One on One with John Tesh 1992 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
CBS This Morning 1990-1992 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
The Dennis Miller Show 1992 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
Cover Up: Behind the Iran Contra Affair 1988 Documentary Narrator (voice) Self
Password Plus 1979 TV Series Herself – Celebrity Contestant Self
The Hollywood Squares 1970-1976 TV Series Herself – Panelist Self
Password All-Stars 1966-1975 TV Series Herself – Celebrity Contestant Self
The 28th Annual Tony Awards 1974 TV Special Herself Self
The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1971 TV Special Herself Self
The 20th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1968 TV Special Herself Self
The Joey Bishop Show 1967 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
78th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade 1967 TV Movie Herself – Hostess Self
The Mike Douglas Show 1966 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
The Hollywood Palace 1966 TV Series Herself – Host Self
Chevrolet’s Bewitching Bonanza 1964 Short Herself Self
Here’s Hollywood 1961 TV Series Herself Self
The Sixties 2014 TV Mini-Series documentary Samantha Stevens Archive Footage
Making the Boys 2011 Documentary Samantha Stephens Archive Footage
La imagen de tu vida 2006 TV Series Samantha Stephens Archive Footage
Bewitched 2005 Samantha Stephens (uncredited) Archive Footage
Bewitched: The Magic Unveiled 2005 Video short Samantha Stephens Archive Footage
Reflections of Evil 2002 Samantha Stephens (uncredited) Archive Footage
E! True Hollywood Story 1999 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Biography 1999 TV Series documentary Herself / Various Characters Archive Footage
Hey Folks, It’s Intermission Time 1993 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
T.V. Sphincter 1987 Video documentary Samantha Stephens (ABC TV Commercial featuring ‘Bewitched’) (uncredited) Archive Footage

Elizabeth Montgomery Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2008 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Television On 4 January. At 6533 Hollywood Boulevard. Posthumously. Accepted by her children, Rebecca Asher Won
2005 OFTA TV Hall of Fame Online Film & Television Association Actors and Actresses Won
2004 TV Land Award TV Land Awards Superlatively Supernatural Bewitched (1964) Won
1995 Lucy Award Women in Film Lucy Awards Won
2008 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Television On 4 January. At 6533 Hollywood Boulevard. Posthumously. Accepted by her children, Rebecca Asher Nominated
2005 OFTA TV Hall of Fame Online Film & Television Association Actors and Actresses Nominated
2004 TV Land Award TV Land Awards Superlatively Supernatural Bewitched (1964) Nominated
1995 Lucy Award Women in Film Lucy Awards Nominated