With her iconic role as Samantha Stevens in Bewitched, Elizabeth Montgomery “nose-twitched” her way into the hearts of everyone with a television set in the 1960s. Although ABC changed Dicks on her for the last three seasons — TV husbands Dick York and Dick Sargent, that is — Montgomery portrayed Samantha for the full eight-season run.
Montgomery later shed her wholesome image for darker roles. One such example was her portrayal of the eponymous ax murderer in 1975’s The Legend of Lizzie Borden. In an uber-bizarre example of “art imitates life,” it was discovered that Montgomery was actually Borden’s distant cousin.