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
Bewitched issue 12 and lasting until the comic's demise in 1969. In August 2011 it was reported that CBS ordered a script to be written by Marc Lawrence for a rebooted series of "Bewitched". On October 22, 2014, Sony Pictures Television announced that it sold a pilot of "Bewitched" to NBC as a possible entry for the 2015—2016 US television season. This show would have focused on Tabitha's daughter Daphne, a single woman who despite having magical powers as her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, is determined not to use it to find a soul mate. The new version of the proposed