Elizabeth Montgomery Elizabeth Montgomery Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995) was an American film, stage, and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered for her leading role as Samantha Stephens on the television series "Bewitched". The daughter of actor Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series "Robert Montgomery Presents", and won a Theater World Award for her 1956 Broadway debut in the production "Late Love". In the 1960s, she became known for her role as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom "Bewitched". Her work
Bewitched series, written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, had been on the radar of several major networks, including ABC, after Sony began shopping the project to interested parties. On August 23, 2018, ABC announced that it had bought a pilot for a single camera Bewitched remake from "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris. This is Barris's last new project for the network before his exclusive contract with Netflix goes into effect. After completing its original run, ABC Daytime and ABC Saturday Morning continued to show the series until 1973. "Bewitched" has since been syndicated on many local US broadcast stations from 1973–82