Today's Birthday, April 15: US actor Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995).
Elizabeth Montgomery played Samantha, the housewife-witch with the famous nose twitch, on the TV series Bewitched from 1964 to 1972.
Born on April 15, 1933 in Hollywood, Montgomery was the daughter of screen actor Robert Montgomery and Broadway actor Elizabeth Allen.
She was a "TV baby", making her first small screen appearance was on her father's show Robert Montgomery Presents at the age of 17.
She also had some notable early film roles, in movies such as The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) and Johnny Cool (1963).
However, Montgomery is best remembered for playing Samantha Stephens in the hit American sitcom Bewitched, for which she received five Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations.
The show remains popular through syndications, and in 2005 Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman starred in a movie remake.
After Bewitched stopped production, Montgomery refused to do Samantha's famous nose twitch and was reluctant to discuss the role. Instead, she pursued dramatic roles that took her as far as possible from the good-natured Samantha typecasting.
Montgomery received Emmy Award nominations for her depictions of a rape victim in the TV movie A Case Of Rape (1974), the title role in The Legend Of Lizzie Borden (1975), and for the mini-series The Awakening Land (1978), about a woman in 1820s Ohio.
She also played a woman who terrorised state home residents Kirk Douglas and Dorothy McGuire in the film Amos (1985).
Montgomery married four times and had three children.
She died in 1995, eight weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
