Elizabeth Montgomery: The Real Off-Screen Life of TV’s Most Beloved Witch

A Thing for Older Men

Elizabeth Montgomery was 62 when she died in 1995 of cancer. She had been married four times and had three children with her third husband, Bill Asher, the producer of Bewitched. Yet it seems as though she never found true happiness. “She was beautiful and alluring and looking for love,” said Pilato. “She worked with Gary Cooper on the movie The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell and he had a thing for her.”

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Cooper was an older man, which as we know now, Elizabeth had a thing for. A stagehand had actually caught the duo alone in Cooper’s dressing room, which sparked an on-set scandal. There was also Dean Martin, who was smitten with her when they starred together in Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed? He was romantic and surely loved women. For Elizabeth, it was another attraction of an older man.

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