Monday, 13 October 2025

Special Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Montgomery

You probably know me as the angelic faced Samantha Stephens from the popular TV comedy Bewitched, where I played a typical suburban housewife with a terrible secret but  I had even more secrets than my character such as a long list of husbands and an even longer list of lovers.
As I had two show business parents, they were desperate to keep me away from their world so they must have been disappointed when i enroled in acting school but when i married Frederick Cammann, a rich, well-connected socialite who had nothing to do with show business and wore suits so sensible they could do their own tax returns, they assumed it was over it but i wasn't and got cast in my first Hollywood film, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, opposite heartthrob Gary Cooper, which was great for my career but not for our marriage's as we got hot and heavy and both got a divorce.
Now a free woman, I ramped my life right up and after countless appearances on TV, and an Emmy award, i appeared in Warner Bros Presents and promptly fell in love with the show’s host and marriage number 2 followed a few years later by divorce number 2.  
I was gaining a reputation for an actress who met her boyfriends at work and as it turned out, I began dating and married the Director of Bewitched, the story was about a modern day witch and her hilarious relationship with her very mortal husband.
After a few series my husband got moved on and guest director Richard Michael's stepped in and he took on two roles: TV show director and lover of the lead actress. Yep, we started an affair and things got a bit awkward and i decided that my time on Bewitched was up and quit the series.
Now divorced again, i made a few more TV films and I clearly liked working on edgy material but the edge doesn’t get any sharper than my next project, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, a true true story of a woman who hacks up her father and stepmother with an axe.
In A Killing Affair, i starred opposite OJ Simpson which made me thankful that I didn’t pick up a boyfriend on this particular film but by then i  had almost given up on marriage and was shacked up with TV actor Robert Foxworth but i was also tangling with Russian ballet dancer Alexander Godunov but by now i was getting into politics and spoke out about the Vietnam War, gay rights and inequality in the US .
In the 1980s, during the AIDS crisis, I saw many of my gay friends suffering and was one of the first celebrities to show their support, raising money for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation of LA but my own health was failing and what i thought was flu symptoms, turned out to be terminal cancer.

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