Elizabeth Montgomery

 Elizabeth Montgomery's decision to appear in TV movies with more serious overtones continued into the 1990s.

Those choices included CBS shockers like Sins of the Mother (in which Montgomery adorned black hair, similar to her Serena role as Samantha's edgier look-a-like-cousin on Bewitched), With Murder in Mind (with Robert Foxworth, her love of years, whom she eventually wed), and The Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.
Montgomery performed in only two comedic TV movies, both for CBS: When the Circus Came to Town (co-starring Christopher Plummer in 1981), and 1990s Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Face to Face, which marked the second of three times she paired with Foxworth on screen (the first was 1974's Mrs. Sundance, when they first met).
Filmed in Kenya, Africa, Face to Face also helped Montgomery advocate for animals, specifically, elephants. During a press tour, she appeared with Foxworth on CBS This Morning, where she protested the slaughter of the wild kingdom’s largest residents.
Five years later, Elizabeth made her final live-action appearance in the CBS TV movie called Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, which aired May 9, 1995. Based on the real-life exploits of Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning crime journalist for The Miami Herald, Deadline was a sequel to the first Edna-based film, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, which CBS aired on March 27, 1994. More movies were planned, but it was not meant to be.
During production on Deadline, Montgomery became frail. In March of 1995, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, only two years after she finally married Foxworth, who had for decades asked her to be his bride. Now, he was her widower.
Also left behind was William Asher (who died in 2012), and her three children with him: William Allen Asher, Robert Asher, and Rebecca Asher —along with Elizabeth’s younger brother, Robert Skip Montgomery, Jr., who in 2000 succumbed to lung cancer.
Robert Montgomery, Sr., had died in 1981. Elizabeth Bryan Allen died in 1992.
Their daughter’s final performance was a voiceover role as a barmaid in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, titled “Showdown,” which aired posthumously on September 12, 1995.