Bewitched: Astonishing Facts Revealed About The Cast and Crew

Samantha’s cousin Serena was similar to Samantha in a few ways. One of the most major ways in which they were similar was her love of surrounding herself with mere mortals. She even dated a few! We wouldn’t call her a sixties swinger, but she definitely had more hippie tendencies. She generally was in favor of Samantha’s marriage to a mortal, though she teased them for being less cool than she was. Samantha and Serena usually weren’t filmed in the same scenes, because camera technology had not advanced completely. However, they did sometimes try split-screen filming and using a double from the rear to show both characters, both played by Montgomery, at the same time.

In the film Bell, Book, and Candle, blonde beauty Kim Novak plays a witch living in modern-day New York City. The film was a romantic comedy and also starred legendary film star Jimmy Stewart as the male lead. As previously mentioned, the film was the inspiration for the TV series, according to the producer, Sol Saks.

She may have been able to get anything she wanted while she was playing a witch, but she wasn’t so happy off screen. She dated Elvis, Dean Martin, and Gary Cooper, but her “father complex” supposedly kept drawing her to abusive lovers. She befriended JFK, but nobody knows if anything happened romantically between them.

Montgomery gave birth to her real-life daughter Rebecca Asher on the birthday of the twins playing Tabitha (June 17th). Was this a coincidence or did something more magical take place? The picture here is of Diane Murphy, one of the ators who played Tabitha (along with her twin Erin) and Elizabeth’s real daughter Rebecca Asher.

Dick York was a life long smoker. For him, the habit ultimately had dire consequences. After his back accident, Dick reportedly depended on pain medication. Unfortunately, York died of complications from emphysema. He was just 63. He’s buried in Rockford, Michigan.