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Adorable Promotional Photo for Bewitched

November 22, 2021 By Joi

Bewitched Season Five Promo Shot

Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, and Erin Murphy

The adorable Bewitched publicity photo above is, I believe, a promo shot for season five. Don’t hold me to that or anything, but judging by Erin Murphy’s age, here, I’m almost certain it was season five.

Did you grow up watching this wonderful sitcom? I certainly did – heck, who am I kidding – I still watch it regularly! When you’ve seen as many episodes (over and over and over…) as I have, the characters almost seem like family.

The Complete Series of Bewitched on DVD (Amazon link) is available for as cheap as I’ve ever seen it right now. THIS is absolutely the time to grab the magic!


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Setting the Halloween Mood with Bewitched!

October 9, 2020 By Joi

Bewitched Halloween

Elizabeth Montgomery, Erin Murphy, and Agnes Moorehead

I will never NOT love the series Bewitched and everyone involved. It had a one in a billion cast – one that is somehow just now getting recognized for its insane talent level.

You can watch the hilarious series on Amazon Prime or do what I plan to do… buy the entire series on dvd (Amazon link)!

Bewitched Halloween

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Elizabeth Montgomery, Doing All Kinds of Justice to My Favorite Color

September 17, 2020 By Joi

Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery

One of my absolute favorite television actresses of all-time is the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery…. my favorite color is purple. What happens when the two team up??

Absolute. Magic.

There was just something about this actress, wasn’t there? She was so very talented and had a natural gift for comedy – yet, she was also as beautiful as any actress who ever lived, does live, or will live! Like Lucille Ball and Barbara Eden – she proved that some clowns just happen to be exceptionally lovely.

Bewitched premiered on this date in 1964 and, remarkably, it is just as hilarious today as it was then. The writing, directing, and certainly the acting are all beautifully timeless.

 


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Elizabeth Montgomery Makes an Especially Beautiful Picture of the Day

September 2, 2020 By Joi

Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery

For those of us who grew up watching Elizabeth Montgomery on Bewitched, seeing pictures of her almost seem like seeing pictures of family. Beautiful, happy, and almost always smiling family at that!

While we can relive the magic with reruns (which I regularly do), I actually plan to buy the complete series of Bewitched (link to the set on Amazon) on dvd (all 254 episodes for just a little over $30!). I look forward to starting with he first episode and watching all the way to the end.

If I go missing from here for a while in the near future, just know that I’m somewhere lost in the world of Samantha Stephens!


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Beautiful (and Bewitching) Elizabeth Montgomery

October 7, 2019 By Joi

Elizabeth Montgomery Publicity Photo for Bewitched
Isn’t it funny how, when you grow up watching certain television characters, their faces almost seem like family. Characters from Bewitched, Sanford and Son, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Gilligan’s Island, and Beverly Hillbillies certainly fit the description for me.

One of my favorites is Samantha and the beautiful actress who brought her to life, Elizabeth Montgomery.

She was born on April 15, 1933 in Hollywood, California. Ironically, one of my favorite film actors, Robert Montgomery, is her father and her mother was stage actress Elizabeth Allen. Talk about a talented family.

Fast Facts About Elizabeth Montgomery

  • She lost out on the part of Edie Doyle in the iconic On the Waterfront (1954) to Eva Marie Saint. In his autobiography “A Life,” director Elia Kaza writes that the choices were narrowed down to Montgomery and Saint. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. He felt this wouldn’t bode well for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ.
  • She never actually twitched her nose as her “Bewitched” character Samantha. Instead, she twitched her upper lip, which caused her nose to follow and thus gave the impression she was twitching her nose.
  • Elizabeth appeared on The Flintstones episode, The Flintstones: Samantha in 1965 – voicing the beloved character she is best-known for.
  • She turned down the role of “Krystle Carrington” on Dynasty.
  • Elizabeth Montgomery and Lizzie Borden were sixth cousins once removed, both descending from 17th-century Massachusetts resident John Luther. Elizabeth (powerfully!) portrayed Lizzie in the 1975 film The Legend of Lizzie Borden.
  • She was 5′ 6½.”
  • Acting mentor and friend of Erin Murphy (Tabitha).
  • (About her father, actor Robert Montgomery)  “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.”
  • Her famous nose twitch was actually a nervous habit. When they were trying to figure out a trademark for the character Samantha the director William Asher noticed that when she got nervous she would twitch her upper lip, so they used that.
  • Bewitched Pop Vinyls will be released this month (October 2019). I collect Pop Vinyls of my favorite movies, TV shows, actors, and actresses and I am as excited as a kid at Christmas about this! You can order the Bewitched Pops on Amazon. They will have Samantha, Endora, and Darrin. No doubt about it, they’ll have to have their own shelf.

A personal quote: “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

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