Elizabeth Montgomery.

She was charming, sweet and she was just a wonderful actress, try to punish me or thank you guys, she was such an elegant woman, so smart and so strong, she was the daughter of a famous movie star and a woman decided to make her own. Identity as a veteran of more than 200 roles in film and television. Elizabeth Montgomery proved to be more than just a pretty face, but she was like a witch who twitched her nose as the greatest audience of hers would find the greatest acclaim from her. I am a cunning and intelligent witch. and witty, she was absolutely charming.

It was at the height of the Great Depression, but in Hollywood, California, it was the Golden Age of Cinema, where movie stars and studio moguls lived like royalty. It was here, on April 15, 1933, that popular leading man Robert Montgomery and his wife Elizabeth proudly announced the birth of a daughter they named Elizabeth Victoria. Elizabeth's father, Robert Montgomery, had been a big star in Louis's glory days as mayor and was a very handsome man, a wonderful actor as a sophisticated comedian and also as a dramatic actor. Although the MGM-contracted player worked six days a week on Sundays, he enjoyed being his father.

Elizabeth's mother was a stage actress who had abandoned her career when she married, although all the family's needs were attended to by a domestic help staff. . Montgomery was devoted to Elizabeth and her younger brother, Robert Jr. and the family's elegant Bel-Air home was an ideal setting for the extravagant birthday parties that little Elizabeth enjoyed each year, formal events often presided over by her own father. He was a very classic traditional man, he had very strong values ​​and a very political mentality. He was the kind of person who would even say goodbye to his friends with the last name Mr. so-and-so, this kind of world she lived in did not make for a normal childhood;

She was expected to be dressed appropriately, for her to have good manners and behave in a certain way and I think she took it as an act because it didn't reflect many of her own deep feelings, so she in a sense she She was always an actress. In 1939, Elizabeth enrolled at the prestigious Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. It was there that the headstrong six-year-old first appeared on stage playing Wolf and a French-language production of Little Red Riding Hood to a delighted audience that same year. Elizabeth's parents went to London, where her father was going to make a film.

Elizabeth and her brother were left in the care of her grandmother Rebecca, who brought her a sense of adventure. to her granddaughters conservative upbringing her grandmother was the one who introduced her to horse racing when she was little my mother came into her room and said no, you are not going to go to school, you are going to go with me to the track to learn much more about math on the trail of what you'll never learn in that long-returned class, but Elizabeth's carefree childhood would soon come to an end on December 7, 1941. Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, forcing the United States to declare war.

Robert Montgomery immediately enlisted in the Navy, where he joined other notable military men such as Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable for the next four years, while Elizabeth matured into an athletic and independent teenager, constantly fearing for her father's safety. and I only saw him during infrequent leaves in 1945. World War II ended and Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery returned home a hero. Elizabeth was overjoyed to finally have her beloved father back, but when the 40-year-old movie star returned to work, she discovered that the lead roles were going to younger actors and after five frustrating years, her family reported.

Surprised that they left Hollywood to start over in New York City for 17-year-old Elizabeth, the move to Manhattan was exciting, she reveled in the freedom of New York City and its beauty, its infectious sense of humor and her status as the Daughter of a Hollywood star, she quickly became the center of attention among a sophisticated crowd of young creatives. She was such an elegant woman, so intelligent and so strong. She was generally the life of the party, the life of the table, the move to New York. It also proved successful for his father, who focused his considerable talent and energy on the burgeoning television industry almost overnight and became one of the medium's leading entrepreneurs, producing, directing and sometimes acting in a weekly show called Robert Montgomery presents, thank you Tom and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome once again to Johnson's Wax, but just as Elizabeth had begun to settle into what seemed like an idyllic life, her father surprised everyone when he fell in love with oil heiress Buffy Harkness in 1950. Elizabeth's parents divorced. and a few days later, Robert remarried. The divorce was devastating. She had adored her father and, as it happens, I think in many cases she was completely devastated by it, but she put on a façade and put on a face to cover her unbalanced disappointment and disillusionment with her father's behavior. her father The teenager was sick. Prepared for media scrutiny of her family's travails, angry and humiliated, Elizabeth began to distrust the press, the young woman gradually came to terms with her father's failures and, despite her fears of life before her public, she announced her intention to become an actress, but Robert Montgomery was not encouraging at all, my mother wanted to continue, not really follow in her father's footsteps, but she knew that was what she wanted to do, she wanted to entertain.

I remember her saying that her father warned her that this business was very difficult for her self-esteem. You are selling yourself and it is very difficult for people's ego and self-esteem to be rejected and it is a difficult matter immediately after graduating from high school, Elizabeth enrolled in the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts, among whose graduates Recent additions included rising stars such as Grace Kelly and Anne Bancroft. The aspiring actress worked diligently to learn her craft and in 1951 auditioned for and won a guest-starring role on her father's show. I find a cigarette indispensable to calm one's nerves or when one's nerves are calm, don't you?

Emily Elizabeth was the star of a particular episode and I was the stage manager and we became friends, you knew from the beginning that she was going to make it even though she had all the privileges of having a father with a show that could represent her and present it. People, she always had real talent and a real drive to succeed, ladies and gentlemen. I want to tell you both, and I'm sure you will join me, how much we enjoyed her performances. Robert Montgomery was so impressed with hers. I think he loved having her as an actress and that she was so good, I mean, she was a full-blooded Elizabeth, but for 19 years.

Elizabeth's success at age three was bittersweet. She had proven that she could act, but would she ever be known as anything other than her father's daughter? Over the next three years, Elizabeth Montgomery worked hard to establish herself as an actress appearing on Broadway in plays such as Late Love and honing her skills and television shows such as Kraft Theater and Studio One, where she played an ambitious young fashion editor in one episode. titled The drop of a hat. New York critics took notice and in 1954 Elizabeth was honored to receive the World Theater Award as one of the year's most promising personalities alongside rising stars such as James Dean and Eva Marie Saint, but the young actress was still struggling to develop her own identity and many times when she went out, people knew her or knew her and her father.

Was she the daughter and son of Robert Montgomery? Did she want to leave that behind? I was someone who had strong feelings about who she was, but at 21 Elizabeth was concerned about more than just her professional life. The actress had fallen in love with a Harvard-educated stage manager whom she met while guest-starring on her father's show after a brief but romantic courtship on March 27, 1954. Elizabeth married Frederick Hammond in a grand wedding from society and the couple settled into a modest apartment on the Upper East Side where we lived. In the same building my wife and I, Elizabeth and Freddie were one floor above us, she was a lovely girl, I mean, she was really funny and she loved to have fun.

I've had some of the best laughs of my life with her, but Hollywood was calling Elizabeth had begun to attract the attention of movie producers who urged her to move West when Freddy refused to follow her to Los Angeles. Elizabeth was forced to choose between his marriage and her career. After just over a year, the two were on friendly terms. Elizabeth Montgomery, divorced in 1955, made her film debut at the age of 22 in the military drama Billy Mitchell's Court Martial, starring Gary Cooper and Rod Steiger. Don't blame Zack for what you did. Zack wouldn't have called his superior officers traitors.

I didn't disobey orders I can't do anything to help you Billy Hi Elizabeth's reviews were excellent The film made very little impression at the box office but the young actress had made a dramatic impression in the charismatic role of a Hollywood star when the couple began dating and in a short time, Elizabeth, in love, decided to make him her next husband. 20 years after her last work, Young had made a name for himself playing stylish cats and crowd-pleasing comedies, and, just as Elizabeth had predicted on December 28, 1956, the two were married. Robert Montgomery did it. not attending the wedding, indicating a growing rift in the close relationship between Elizabeth and her famous father.

Bob Montgomery was not satisfied with that relationship, he did not like acting young in a curious way. acting young was a younger version of Bob Montgomery, he could play that. The same type of role, sophisticated and glamorous, but she and her boyfriend were very, very happy, madly in love. Elizabeth put her own career on hold to follow her husband as he divided his time between Broadway and Hollywood, but behind Young's charm and good looks lay the demons of an abusive alcoholic, although the couple's passionate arguments with They often left Elizabeth depressed and terrified, she couldn't trust herself and even her closest friends kept things to herself, she was secretive and didn't really like people knowing.

If she was upset, worried, in pain or distress of any kind, you know she stuck it out trapped in a troubled marriage. Elizabeth returned to acting for the next four years. She worked consistently as a guest star on numerous successful television shows including The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables in which she played a Southern prostitute starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness co-starring Elizabeth Montgomery in tonight's episode Heller's Rusty Story which it doesn't make sense i can't tell a hood from a cop even a puncture proof untouchable funny I appreciate the concern you're nothing more than a super Boy Scout aren't you?

What you want to die is what I'm trying to understand? He's breaking into speakeasies to break up shitty little games that are actually worth risking your life for. I bet your wife doesn't I don't think so, the 27-year-old actress earned critical acclaim for her brave performance and to her great surprise was nominated for an Emmy Award after ten years in the business, her career regretted and for the first time He felt like he was doing his thing. she marks in Hollywood when she finally broke into her career. I remember her telling me that she loved the time when she and her father were together and she changed, she was like Hoosier Elisabeth Montgomery's father, yes, but even growing success couldn't take away her heartbreak over Elizabeth's crumbling marriage to Gig.

Young was not a pleasant experience for her as there was some domestic violence involved and she had to get out of it and fortunately she was smart enough and strong-willed enough to do so in the spring. In 1963, Elisabeth traveled to Mexico to quietly end her six-year marriage, but the 30-year-old actress would not remain single for long. She was about to meet a man who would change the course of her life and her career. I met Elizabeth when we were Johnny's casting was great and she was one of many that we saw and when I saw her, it was great that she was at the casting.

William Asher was a well-known director of feature films and classic television shows such as I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks. and make room for Dad when he offered Elizabeth the lead role in the action-packed gangster movie Johnny Cool. She was excited to have another chance to leave her mark on films. What do you know about Johnny Cool? Oh, I know a lot about Johnny Cool. perhaps more than anyone I know that he is a murderer, I have seen him kill but I don't know who turned him into a murder machine and why he kills, but I love him although I know very well that it is just as easy for himdo it.

Kill me as it is to kiss me Johnny, I need you, I need you right now, but there was more going on on set than just filming, once again the visible was found in a behind-the-scenes romance, this time with its 43-year-old director. They were great together and had a lot in common, they were both extremely intelligent people with a great sense of humor. Later that year, Elizabeth was cast in the light comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed, Dean Martin, as the famous TV doctor with such a bed. In the way that her private apartment becomes a built-in magnet for all the lovely insomniac women in the world, this is a sculptress who turns any man into a puppy instantly.

He gave an energetic performance as a seductive artist determined to get his reluctant fiancé to the altar and the altar was just where Elizabeth Montgomery was headed for the third time we checked in we just left we got married in El Paso I mean, I was crazy about her happy In their new life Elizabeth and William hoped to find a project they could work on. Together in the summer of 1963, Asher came across a script for a television series called The Witch of Westport based on the intriguing premise of an unusual mixed marriage when Asher began to develop the idea.

Elizabeth helped him create the main character. The euphoria of conceiving the series together increased when Elizabeth learned that she was pregnant and on July 24, 1964 the couple welcomed their first child, a son named William Allen and just two months later, on September 17, ABC broadcast the pilot episode of Asher's new show, the title was haunted, once upon a time there was a typical American girl who ran into a typical American boy they had a typical wedding they went on a typical honeymoon turns out this girl is a witch the show featured starring Elizabeth as a suburban sorceress named Samantha co-starring Agnes Moorehead as Endora's meddlesome mother Samantha an idiot You're like Darrin Stephens, her unsuspecting mortal husband, the show was an instant hit.

Audiences were fascinated by the show's unique combination of humor and magic, but most of all they loved Elizabeth Darren. I guess I shouldn't have married you, but I love you so much. I love you very much too but I hadn't thought about this: making you a good wife, I promise, with a successful television series, a happy marriage and a growing family. Elizabeth Montgomery had finally emerged from the shadow of her famous father and it seemed that she was casting a spell on almost everyone. 1964 the All American families portrayed on shows like Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver were disappearing from the television landscape, in their place shows Fantasy films like The Addams Family and The Munsters offered audiences a twist on the haunted tradition. brought her own spin to the typical TV home with Samantha's cerebral beauty and supernatural power, it was clear that it was she and not her husband Darrin who was in control of Bee, which became the number two show in the country by the end of its run. first season and Twitch. of Samantha's nose means to dispel the name of the big bass its trademark that was an accident it was just a tic when mom and dad were talking and she moved her nose and my dad said what was that you just did with your nose what You are doing?

Speaking of which, he had no idea he'd done it, here's how we'll make the magic happen as the hit show enters its second year. Elizabeth was very happy to discover that she was expecting another child, but instead of hiding it. Pregnant on camera, she and William Asher decided it would be fun to include it in the show. In the fall of 1965, the couple welcomed their second son, Robert, and on television, Samantha gave birth to a daughter, Tabitha, already known as one of the most creative series on television. The third season of Bewitched brought two major changes: the show was now filmed in color and two-year-old twins Erin and Diane Murphy were cast as Samantha and Darrin's magical daughter Oh No, Honey, Mommy Don't Want You To Do That, remember that Elizabeth was very For me, as a mother, we spent a lot of time together on set and off set, where I would go to her house and play with her children on the weekends, we would go trick-or-treating together and we would go to watch movies together.

Honestly, it was like having another parent, it's a great relationship. The Bewitched cast also included veteran actors David White, Paul Lynde and Sandra Gould as Gladys Kravitz, Samantha's nervous neighbor. Just what happened to your car, but I have a question for you. What happened to your shoes? A cup of sugar comes the moment you think you're funny as a comedian, you're not funny, you know, if you look, say, look at me, I'm being funny, forget it, she never thought she was funny and it all came from honesty and every greatest comedian you've ever seen comes from honesty.

I think Liz was an incredible comedian, she was one of those people who is an absolutely stunningly beautiful woman, but she wasn't afraid to look silly when Bewitched threatened to turn formulaic. Elizabeth and William created an alter ego for Samantha, a mischievous and seductive cousin named Serena. The new role gave Elizabeth the opportunity to expand her comedic acting skills as dear cousin Samantha is gone, just gone, time to get to work. I bet it'll be more fun than when I joined the Navy, just a few small details, she needed that character to change her mood a little and give her a little room to breathe and I remember her telling me that she liked that role.

She liked that character a lot that was a lot of fun for her don't think I'm that bad to look at I'm sick of simmering like a guarded pot I want to go out and boil Serena was a little weak and she was so good in that role that many Fans thought it was different, actress Samantha Dear, it was all your mother's idea, although she quickly honed her portrayal of the two divergent characters off-screen, Elizabeth struggled to balance her dual roles as actress and mother and often found it difficult. spending as much time as she wanted with her sons William Robert and daughter Rebecca, who was born in 1969.

It was just difficult for us not to have so much work, but the time she devoted to us. It was a great quality moment, I mean, she always came in and kissed us goodnight and tucked us in no matter how late it was on the weekends, in time to be home. It was a really nice time together, he just had this kind of magical personality. she was almost childish and she loved surprises and she loved art and she loved being creative at Christmas and she loved everything she loved inventing new things. Elizabeth also expressed her creativity on set between takes where she could be found drawing. one of her many sketchbooks or peruse Racing Form after five seasons Haunted was still at the top of the ratings as one of the best love comedies on television.

Elizabeth Montgomery had gone from a working television actress to one of television's most recognizable stars, but when lead actor Dick York began to complain of severe back pain, her co-workers became alarmed, her suffering became So intense that one day he had to be carried off the set on a stretcher, it was clear that he could no longer continue working and with York's departure, the fate of the series was uncertain, but a major cast change would not be the only upheaval in the series. Elizabeth's life. Darren Stevens has Spirit VIII, which began its sixth season with a new Darrin to play opposite Samantha.

The producers cast Dick Sargent in the role and he and Elizabeth quickly became converts. close friends, but by the early 1970s audiences were beginning to crave more cutting-edge products, and when ABC ran the show alongside the groundbreaking sitcom All in the Haunted Family it plummeted in the ratings and, after eight years, 254 episodes and five Emmy nominations for Best Actress Elizabeth Montgomery announced that she was ready for a change, we had become a family and we all really liked each other and had fun together and she was the reason in 1972, Elizabeth Montgomery, The 39-year-old was mulling her next career move as William Asher continued directing more film and television, but after eight years of working side by side on Bewitched, the new dynamic strained their relationship and Elizabeth headed to Europe for a break. very necessary.

It was all my fault. She went to work every morning and she was there and finally she left. I was angry that she left, so I left in 1974. Elizabeth and William Asher decided to end their 11-year marriage because her parents' breakup had been so personally heartbreaking that Elizabeth tried to make her own. divorce to be as painless and private as possible for her family, she would never allow people to meddle with press photographers, everyone wanted a glimpse into her personal life and like she said, it's called personal for a reason, no She's ready to get back to work and can't wait to leave Samantha behind.

Elizabeth accepted hers and a gripping television drama titled The Rape Case. The story was about a woman who was brutally attacked twice by the same man. It was difficult for many things to see Samantha raped. You know, she claims to see Samantha being beaten. but it was important for Elizabeth to distance herself from Samantha. The film broke new ground by depicting the ordeal of a middle-class housewife trying to bring a rapist to justice. The two-hour drama became one of the highest-rated TV movies of all. Once Elizabeth's riveting performance earned her a seventh Emmy nomination and the satisfaction of knowing that she had raised public awareness on an important issue that same year, Elizabeth returned to lighter fare and mrs.

Sundance, the TV western about the widow of the Sundance Kid, co-starring Robert Foxworth, she walked into the room and I was immediately dazzled. She stole my heart from the moment I laid eyes on her during filming. Romance blossomed between Elizabeth and the 32 year old actor, I had come all the way from you and the way down all day nothing helps wash now I won't wash I won't have dinner first of all I thought she was one of the funniest people I've ever seen. I had never known and completely kind and giving everything cruelly and tolerant and Simple and unpretentious and as we went out together, played together and dined together, I felt more and more seduced and bewitched, so to speak, by this wonderful woman after three divorces.

Elizabeth was not eager to remarry, but she and Robert built a life together. At their house in Beverly Hills they became dear friends and lovers and you know it was difficult to separate them after that, these two people who are very strong, very intoxicating, they argued and stayed, they had a great time meeting again, making love and Being happy. and laughing now content with her personal life

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took on a role that would forever challenge her past image as a kind witch in 1975 she played the infamous ax murderer and legend lizzie borde in another powerful performance i could never stand little dark places, Even as a child, Emma knew she wanted me to have the big bedroom, didn't she?

Oh, we know all about you and your path, Princess Lizzie, we know how you twist your arms and throw tantrums just to get your way if I weren't like that. A lady should twist your arm ma'am. Borton, from the beginning, I don't think anything excited her more than the idea that she had accomplished something that no one thought she could do and then people started to really respond to her and respect her as an accomplished actress, was probably one of the things . of her great victories in life with a growing reputation as a dramatic actress, Elizabeth, 42, had truly become famous, but unfortunately the man who had launched her career more than two decades earlier was not there to share the triumph. of his daughter throughout Elizabeth's years.

Her relationship with her father had become increasingly strained. They didn't get along very well. I never understood it. I think to some extent he was jealous of her. They had many different points of view politically. My grandfather was a right-wing publican. My mother was a bit more liberal and they simply didn't see eye to eye, although Elizabeth and her father rarely spoke, she was deeply saddened when in 1981 Robert Montgomery passed away at the age of 77 as the United States entered the conservative era. of Reagan. Feeling compelled to act on her own political and social conscience, Elizabeth did a surprising amount of work for different causes, mostly quite anonymous.

Lee, didn't like going where all the cameras were and it was the dazzling occasions of 1991. Elizabeth's haunted co-star, Dick Sargent, publicly acknowledged his homosexuality and he asked her to join him as grand marshal of the Gay Pride Parade. The Angels. Elizabeth gladly accepted Dick Sargent since the success of Lizzie Borden. Elizabeth Montgomery had appeared in more than a dozen films fortelevision, still beautiful and full of vitality at 59 years old. She continued to be an in-demand leading lady, but Elizabeth Montgomery's life was about to take another surprising turn in 1993. Robert Foxworth and Elizabeth Montgomery celebrated their 19th anniversary together, but not as husband and wife.

He had asked her to marry me about seven times. and she always said no but one day we were sitting at the kitchen table talking and I said you know this situation would be a lot easier if we were married and she looked at me and said he's not a proposal and I I told her it was okay and she said yes On January 28, 1993 the couple secretly married at the Berry Cross house, typical Lizzy, it was about her and Bob at the time, it may even be a publicity stunt About 15 minutes after the ceremony they called and said it was again.

So childish and sweet, shy of publicity since her teens, Elizabeth gradually began to let her guard down and the press consented to several interviews and even launched a business with her eldest son, Billy Elizabeth Montgomery, secret sauce, my mom was a great cook and made two sauces. I'm speechless and I'm like licking my lips now just thinking about it and I thought my God, mom, we should market these sauces, it would be so much fun to do it together, people loved it, it was a fun thing we did together in 1994, Elizabeth portrayed the real -Miami crime reporter Edna Buchanan in the TV movie The Corpse Had a Familiar Face The 2-hour teledrama was so popular that in 1995 CBS brought Montgomery back for a second Edna Buchanan film Deadline for Murder I'm Going to kill Johnny Bufanda but what do I know about it?

I know I carry a gun, so I'd be a fool to take the time to kill two people before shooting him. I would hit him first, well in the reenactment photo he gets wet first, but the fact that Scarf had time to fire three shots clearly supports my theory that Orlando was the intended victim, is it that logical or am I crazy, oh, that's logical and you're crazy, but while filming on location in San Diego, Elizabeth mysteriously fell ill and suffered. From what seemed like a tough flu to overcome, true to form, she continued to work through the discomfort and obvious symptoms of a serious illness when she finished filming.

Elizabeth was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and doctors gave her the devastating news that she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and after several grueling weeks in the hospital she decided to go home. It was a very scary moment for everyone, but she always had that great sense of humor. She knew how serious she was, but she didn't do it. No, but she tried to be positive about the whole situation, we were all together and at least she went to the place where she felt loved and was at home where she felt most comfortable on May 18, 1995. Elizabeth Montgomery died of cancer .

She was 62 years old, although she was born into a world of wealth and privilege, she struggled to overcome her father's fame in the process. Elizabeth Montgomery fulfilled her own ambitions and went beyond her dreams to become an icon of American pop culture, you know, what I remember was the greatest affection for her wit, that's how I've always thought of her, she was my best friend and was the most generous person I have ever met. I miss her voice, she really had a beautiful voice. I like to try, I promise. I will try to make her greatest legacy be her ability to give young girls an idea of ​​how strong a woman can be.

She was so natural, simple and unpretentious that she lived in many people's homes and in her hearts.