Elizabeth Montgomery - ©Theda Bara

The actress I’m featuring this Halloween is the most famous Bewitched on American television: Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of two Hollywood stars: Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) and Elizabeth Bryan Allen (1904-1992). Elizabeth Montgomery played the “sorceress Samantha Stephens” for eight seasons, from 1964 to 1972, being considered an excellent television actress, appearing in 250 Sitcoms. She worked on 24 films in Hollywood, but never received an Oscar, but won nine Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes.

Elizabeth Montgomery has her star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard: at 6533, Television category.

Born Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery on April 15, 1933, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, died on May 18, 1995, Beverly Hills, California, United States, aged 62.

The actress was married four times. Her first marriage was to New York playboy Frederick Gallatin Cammann (1926-2013) and lasted just one year, from 1954 to 1955; her second marriage was to award-winning American film and television actor Gig Young (1913–1978), from 1956 to 1963; her third marriage was to the American producer, director and screenwriter William Milton Asher, artistically called: William Asher or Bill Asher (1921-2012), from 1963 to 1973, with whom she had 3 children, the luthier (guitar maker), William Allen Asher (1964-), horror film actor Robert Asher (1965-) and film director Rebecca Asher (1969-). And, finally, her last marriage was to the American film, theater and television actor Robert Foxworth (1941-), from 1993 to 1995, when the actress passed away after fighting an intense battle against colon cancer.