Elizabeth

 The early 1960s saw Elizabeth continuing to guest star on shows like Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip and Burke’s Law, and appearing in such films as Bells Are Ringing (1960), Johnny Cool and Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? (both 1963) and the TV movies The Spiral Staircase and Boston Terrier (both 1963). And then she and William Asher decided to do the series Bewitched, which, it should be noted, she was pregnant during the months leading up to the start of production— making network and agency people rather nervous. Which she decided to have some fun with, as she shared with the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1964: “Every time I met someone connected with the sponsors or the network, he would say — at the end of our conversation — ‘The baby is due by August, isn’t it?’ And I would assure them that was true. But one day I heard it just once too often and I said, ‘No, the baby is due 15th of September.’ And I walked away, leaving him staggered. It was mean of me, but what the heck?”

A few months later she would reveal, “I went back to work three weeks after the baby. I get a little tired some days, but you don’t mind when the show is a success and they tell me Bewitched is.