Elizabeth Montgomery was born in the world of show business. Her parents were Robert Montgomery, a screen actor, and Elizabeth Allen, a Broadway actress. Elizabeth was a student at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from the Spence School, New York City. After three years of intense training, Elizabeth was able to make her TV debut on Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) the drama of her father's 1950s series. She also appeared on over 200 live programs in the decade following. She once commented, "I guess you could claim that I'm a baby of TV." Her early film roles include The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) and Johnny Cool (1963). However, she is best remembered for her leading part as the witch Samantha in the top-rated ABC sitcom Bewitched (1964). Her family members, including her mother Endora Moorehead (Agnes Moorehead) as well as her cousin Serena Montgomery (in dark-hair) and her husband Darrin (first Dick York, later Dick Sargent), tried to suppress her supernatural abilities but she often employed her tricks to resolve issues. The signal of impending witchcraft was a twitch of Samantha's nose. After her one and only TV show ended, she turned to making TV movies, some of which were praised by critics: A Case of Rape (1974), The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993). She narrated the movie The Panama Deception (1992) that won an Academy Award in 1993. Reference works showed her as at 62 when she passed away, even though her family claimed she was 57. The family did not reveal the kind of cancer which caused her death.
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