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Elizabeth Montgomery was born into show business. Her parents were screen actor Robert Montgomery and Broadway actress Elizabeth Allen. Elizabeth graduated from the Spence School in New York City and attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After three years' intensive training, she made her TV debut in her father's 1950s playhouse series Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) and appeared in more than 200 live programs over the next decade. She once remarked, "I guess you could say I'm a TV baby." Notable early film roles included The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) and Johnny Cool (1963). However, she is best remembered for her leading role as the witch Samantha in the top-rated ABC sitcom Bewitched (1964). Her family - mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead), look-alike cousin Serena (Montgomery, wearing a dark wig) and advertising executive husband Darrin (first Dick York then Dick Sargent) - tried to suppress her supernatural skills but often turned to her tricks to solve problems. The signal of impending witchcraft was a twitch of Samantha's nose. After her first and only TV series ended she turned to made-for-TV movies, many of which won critical praise: A Case of Rape (1974), The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993). She narrated the movie The Panama Deception (1992) which won an Academy Award in 1993. Reference works showed her as 62 when she died though the family said she was 57. The family did not disclose the type of cancer which caused her death.- Actor
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Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-30s rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or spineless double-dealers. Thus was he graduated from the innocuous to the noxious. In Warners' They Won't Forget (1937), for example, he plays the role of a student whose social engagement with a young Lana Turner, debuting here in a featured role, seems to have been broken by her whereas, possibly unbeknownst to him, she has quite mysteriously been murdered. Cook becomes so enraged, venting such venom, that the movie audience can only look upon him as a prime suspect in Lana's demise. In Universal's Phantom Lady (1944), he portrays a nightclub-orchestra drummer who, under the intoxicating influence of some substance or other, encounters Ella Raines during an afternoon's band practice. Thoroughly taken with her slinky allure, he enacts a drum-solo piece that is of such crescendo, and played with such innuendo, as to suggest - glaringly - nothing except his own fantasized sexual journey from cymbal foreplay through bass-drum climax.- Actor
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Robert Harris was born on 28 March 1900 in Weston-super-Mare, England, UK. He was an actor, known for That Lady (1955), Canterbury Tales (1969) and The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff (1959). He died on 18 May 1995 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK.- Sabine Sinjen was born on 18 August 1942 in Itzehoe, Germany. She was an actress, known for Marili (1959), Mädchen in Uniform (1958) and Wir - zwei (1970). She was married to Günther Huber and Peter Beauvais. She died on 18 May 1995 in Berlin, Germany.
- Herb Muller was born on 31 March 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Jaws 2 (1978), The Sandlot (1993) and What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). He died on 18 May 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Henri Laborit was born on 21 November 1914 in Hanoi, Vietnam. He was a writer, known for My American Uncle (1980), Le Passeur Immobile (Carnet Filmé: 1er janvier 1987 - 31 décembre 1987) (1987) and Bibliothèque de poche (1966). He died on 18 May 1995 in France.
- Börge Krüger was born on 27 February 1917 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Blåjackor (1945) and Kära farmor (1990). He died on 18 May 1995.
- Juan Gyenes was born on 21 October 1912 in Kaposvár, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1972) and Tal cual (1988). He died on 18 May 1995 in Madrid, Spain.
- Champion diver Dorothy Poynton-Hill was born on July 17, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah. At age thirteen Poynton became the youngest Olympian to win a medal after she won the silver medal in springboard diving in the 1928 Olympic games. Dorothy went to win the bronze medal in springboard diving at the 1936 Olympics as well as the gold medal in platform diving at both the 1932 and 1936 Olympics (she was the first Olympic diver to win the 10 meter platform twice). After retiring from competitions Poynton taught swimming and diving at her own aquatic club in Los Angeles, California and appeared in several TV commercials. Dorothy was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968. Poynton died at age 79 on May 18, 1995.