Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery

Nacimiento : 1933-04-15, Hollywood, California, USA

Muerte : 1995-05-18

Historia

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered as the star of the TV series Bewitched. The daughter of Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1960s, she rose to fame as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom Bewitched. Her work on the series earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations. After Bewitched ended its run in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in numerous television films. In 1974, she portrayed Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and Lizzie Borden in the 1975 television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Both roles earned her additional Emmy Award nominations. Montgomery was married four times, most notably to actor producer/director William Asher with whom she had three children. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth, with whom she lived for twenty years before marrying in 1993. Montgomery died of colorectal cancer in May 1995, eight weeks after being diagnosed with the disease.

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Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Montgomery

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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Edna Buchanan
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Edna Buchanan
The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
Blanche Taylor Moore
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiancé, the town's minister, is stricken the same way. Based on the true crime book Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, the film is buoyed by Montgomery's startling performance, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until its final moments.
The Panama Deception
Narrator
This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by the need to protect American soldiers, restore democracy or even capture Noriega. It was to force Panama to submit the will of the United States after Noriega had exhausted his usefulness.
With Murder in Mind
Gayle Wolfer
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Sins of the Mother
Ruth Coe
A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlements and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no one connects him with a long series of violent rapes that have been troubling the area.
Face to Face
Dr. Diana Firestone
An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
Narrator
A documentary about Iran-Contra.
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Abigail Foster
A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
Amos
Daisy Daws
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
Second Sight: A Love Story
Alexandra McKay
Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma. When Richard Chapman enters her life, a romance develops and McKay begins to let the outside world in to her private world. The prospect of an operation arises that will restore McKay's eyesight, but the fear of what it will do to her relationship with Chapman and the concern over the fate of her guide dog weigh heavily upon her decision to do the procedure.
Missing Pieces
Sara Scott
A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.
The Rules of Marriage
Joan Hagen
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
When the Circus Came to Town
Mary Flynn
When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
Belle Starr
Belle Starr
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
Act of Violence
Catherine McSweeney
A liberal-minded, divorced newswriter is the victim of a brutal mugging. Robbed of her confidence, she finds her life cloaked in fear and paranoia, causing her to reevaluate her lifelong beliefs.
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Jennifer Prince
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.
A Killing Affair
Vikki Eaton
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Dark Victory
Katherine Merrill
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
A Case of Rape
Ellen Harrod
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
La esposa de Sundance Kid
Etta Place
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
Noche de Tensión
Kate Wainwright
Susan recibe una inquietante llamada telefónica. Su hermana, que acaba de tener una violenta discusión con su marido, requiere su ayuda. Susan decide de immediato ir a sacar a su hermana de la mansión en el campo en donde vive. A pesar de la gran tormenta que se encuentra durante el camino, Susan logra llegar a la mansión. Todas las luces están encendidas pero parece no haber nadie. La tormenta sigue. La noche se convierte poco a poco en una terrible pesadilla.
Como rellenar un bikini
Bwana's Daughter, The Witches Witch (uncredited)
Frankie se encuentra al servicio de reserva naval en Tahití, pero no se fía de que Dee Dee le permanezca fiel. Así que contrata a Bwana, un brujo, que tiene una gran ocurrencia con los bikini y envía a Cassandra a distraer a Ricky, el ejecutivo de publicidad de Dee Dee.
Bikini Beach
Lady Bug (voice)
Frankie, Dee Dee y todos sus amigos se dirigen a Bikini Beach para pasar unas vacaciones de diversión, surf y mucha música. Allí descubren una peculiar tienda que resulta ser el cuartel general de Potato Bug, una estrella británica de la canción, que está protegido por un inusual guardaespaldas, Lady Bug y sus técnicas francesas de autodefensa.
Consejos a medianoche
Mellisa Morris
Dean Martin Protagoniza una serie, con todos los codazos varoniles de los que es capaz, a golpe de rudo chiste declamado a pie' de andamio. En el papel de estrella de la televisión se muestra tan irresistible como cargante. La fans le adoran con la fruición con que su novia se harta.
Johnny Cool
Darien 'Dare' Guiness
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
The Spiral Staircase
Helen Warren
Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer who preys on young handicapped women.
Suena el teléfono
Girl reading book
Ella Peterson es una telefonista que, intentando ayudar a sus clientes, se inmiscuye en sus asuntos privados y acaba viéndose implicada en una organización de apuestas clandestinas.
Bitter Heritage
Mary Brecker
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love interest is Elizabeth Montgomery.
El proceso de Billy Mitchell
Margaret Lansdowne
Este film bélico, que tiene por escenario el descenlace de la Primera Guerra Mundial, narra las vivencias de Billy Mitchell, un coronel que vislumbra el potencial destructivo de los aviones, hasta el momento utilizados para misiones de reconocimiento. Entonces, concibe la idea de transformarlos en bombarderos y cazas de combate; idea que no convence a sus superiores. A pesar de los contratiempos, Mitchell inicia una campaña a favor de la creación de un Ejército del Aire, por lo que es acusado de traición y sometido a un consejo de guerra. Este hecho pondrá de manifiesto la incompetencia del ejército frente a las ideas de un hombre con una gran visión de futuro. Sometido a consejo de guerra y declarado culpable, abandona el ejército para retirarse a su propiedad en Virginia. Fue ascendido a general de brigada en 1942, seis años después de su muerte.
Summer Pavilion
Helen Durand
In an old Louisiana plantation, the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on to the gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, even though she loves the builder.
Patterns
Ann Evans
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.