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

Her First and Second Husbands

Elizabeth Montgomery’s first husband was a rich New York socialite named Fred Cammann, who was about a decade older than her. The two met while filming a TV show. But the problem was that he wanted her to quit acting and instead be a stay-at-home wife and mom in New York. Elizabeth, however, had other ambitions.

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It didn’t take long for her to take off for California and for their marriage to go south. Her second husband was an Oscar-winning movie star, Gig Young, who was more than just a decade older – more like two and a half. Young, ironically, was much older than her. He was 25 years her senior at 48 years old – near to her father’s age. Her father, of course, was horrified.

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