Bewitched: Astonishing Facts Revealed About The Cast and Crew

Elizabeth Montgomery’s acting career almost did not reach the extraordinary heights for which she became famous. Her first marriage was in 1955 when she was in her early 20s. Her first husband, New York socialite Fred Cammann, wanted Elizabeth to quit acting altogether. In a time when women were less likely to work outside of the home, his desires were typical. Yet Elizabeth wanted more. She refused to be a stay at home wife and left her husband to pursue a career in California. The couple were divorced after just a year, and not too long after Elizabeth became an unparalleled star.

According to Herbie Pilato, who wrote a tell-all book about Elizabeth Montgomery and the show Bewitched, Dick York was secretly in love with Elizabeth. His unrequited infatuation was allegedly part of the reason York was eventually replaced with Sargent. She also reportedly did not get along with Agnes Moorhead, who played her mother on the television series. Agnes was apparently quite fond of Dick York and was angered at the decision to replace him on the show. She took her wrath out on Dick York’s replacement, Dick Sargent, being so harsh with him that she allegedly drove him to tears on several occasions.

After Bewitched finally ended (several seasons after Elizabeth Montgomery wanted to leave the show) the actress sought out roles that would take her away from the good girl image she had portrayed for nearly a decade. While still earning millions of dollars from Bewitched (by the end of the series, Montgomery owned 20 percent of the show and earned money from residuals for the rest of her life) she took on roles such as a sexual assault victim in A Case of Rape. She also played axe killer Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Researchers later found that Montgomery was a real life distant cousin of the real Lizzie Borden. Talk about a coincidence!

While Tabitha was often a center point on the show, a little-known fact is that there was actually another child in the family. During the season when Dick Sargent took over for Dick York, Samantha gave birth to a baby son named Adam. At the time, Elizabeth was actually pregnant with her third child Rebecca.

The baby who originally played Adam Stephens was never credited. When Adam was shown as a young boy, towards the end of the show, he was credited as David Lawrence. But as his TV sister counterpart, Adam was actually played by twin brothers named Greg and David Mandel. It turns out the boys later changed their last name to go by their adoptive family’s name. They appeared on a talk show called the Vicki Lawrence show in the 1990s where they claimed they were actually the sons of actor Tony Curtis, although they said he would never claim them.