Elizabeth Montgomery
Also Known As: Pandora Spocks, Ελίζαμπεθ Βικτόρια Μοντγκόμερι, Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery, Елізабет Монтгомері, الیزابت مونتگومری
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
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Birthday: April 15, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 18, 1995
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A Killing Affair
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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The Panama Deception
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-31
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Sins of the Mother
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-19
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Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Overview: Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s ever-evolving cultural backdrop, all while helping to define what it means to be one of America’s first Black sports superstars. He left an indelible mark in New York City and San Francisco, building a love affair with both cities’ fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Overview: A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-10
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The Victim
Overview: A woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-14
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Overview: TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Overview: A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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The Spiral Staircase
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-04
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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Overview: A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-23
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A Case of Rape
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Act of Violence
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-10
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Mrs. Sundance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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Amos
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-29
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Second Sight: A Love Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-13
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Overview: The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-27
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Super 8½
Overview: A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Belle Starr
Overview: Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-02
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Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-03
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Patterns
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-12
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Dark Victory
Overview: A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Overview: When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-08
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Bitter Heritage
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Bikini Beach
Overview: A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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Face to Face
Overview: An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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With Murder in Mind
Overview: A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-12
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Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-05
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Summer Pavilion
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-02
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Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
Overview: Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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The Rules of Marriage
Overview: A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-10
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Bells Are Ringing
Overview: Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-23
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When the Circus Came to Town
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-20
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Missing Pieces
Overview: A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Overview: "Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, was a complex, strong-willed woman whose life and career became an ongoing quest for love and recognition she never received from her movie star father. "Bewitched" became one of television's biggest hits during the turbulent 1960s, a time that was symbolic of the series' behind-the-scenes turmoil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-16
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