Alice Pearce 1964, Pearce was originally approached to play the part of Grandmama in the ABC television comedy series "The Addams Family". She turned down the part, which went to veteran actress Blossom Rock. In 1964, Pearce joined the cast of "Bewitched" as the nagging and nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz. Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to the witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes. She played the role until
The Bewitched Inn mark of the Hanlon-Lees' inspiration include "The Inn Where No Man Rests" and "The Diabolic Tenant". Another inspiration for "The Bewitched Inn" probably came from a popular and influential 1839 "féerie", "Les Pilules du Diable", which included a scene in a haunted room. The film was shot outdoors, in Méliès's garden in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. The inanimate objects were animated using wires; other special effects were created using pyrotechnics and the editing technique known as the substitution splice, which allowed the magical disappearances to occur. Méliès himself played the traveler. The Bewitched Inn The Bewitched Inn (French: L'auberge ensorcelée) is an