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Elizabeth Montgomery Dies Of Cancer

Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Montgomery, the actress who played the mischievous witch with the nasal twitch with enchanting whimsy, died Thursday.

The star of TV’s hit series “Bewitched,” who later forsook her single-dimensional character and became one of the bestknown and diverse actors in made-for-TV movies, was 57 according to her family, but several film anthologies list her birth year as 1933.

She died after a long struggle with cancer, said her agent and spokesman Howard Bragman.

With her when she died at home in Beverly Hills was her husband, actor Robert Foxworth, and her three children from a previous marriage.

Daughter of actor Robert Montgomery and stage actress Elizabeth Allen, her first TV work came in 1951 as a summer repertory player on her father’s “Robert Montgomery Presents.” A decade later she had perfected her craft to a point where she was a convincing, other-worldly Samantha Stephens, the crafty, always entertaining heroine of “Bewitched.”

Later Montgomery made a dramatic metamorphosis and ended her career portraying deadly killers and hapless victims.

“Bewitched” ran from 1964 to 1972, garnered several Emmys and beguiled the nation as Samantha herself beguiled her mortal husband, advertising executive Darrin Stephens, played first by Dick York and later by Dick Sargent.

In 1991 Sargent publicly discussed his homosexuality. To show her support she joined him as a grand marshal of the 1992 Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in West Hollywood.