footnote Along about the third season or so, Dick York replaced Dick Sargeant as Samantha's hubby Darren on "Bewitched." Maybe the Sarge got tired of the mother in law referring to him as Gary Moore's announcer "Durwood" (Durwood Kirby, yes there really was a Durwood).

Elizabeth Montgomery was born April 15, 1933,.The daughter of film star Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Montgomery made her television bow on her father's popular 1950s anthology series. Her first film was 1955's The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, for which she was generously reviewed as one of the most dynamic young actresses of her time.

Often cast in tense roles, Montgomery won an Emmy for her portrayal of a conniving gun moll on a 1959 episode of TV's The Untouchables. She shifted to domestic comedy with ease in the role of Samantha Stephens, the attractive witch heroine of the long-running (1964-1973) TV sitcom "Bewitched." After this project folded, Montgomery returned to dramatic roles with a vengeance, spending the next two decades starring as abused, beleaguered women in such TV movies as A Case of Rape (1974) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). In her last made-for-TV project, Montgomery portrayed real-life reporter Edna Buchanan. Among Elizabeth Montgomery's husbands were actors Gig Young, producer/director William Asher, and Robert Foxworth. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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