Agreed, although Shirley Maclaine did a pretty good job in the Bewitched movie (although overall the movie sucked).

@@MarkovianMan the movie truly sucked. It shkd have never been made

So true! I think Aunt Clara was amazing too! It takes true talent to act that befuddled. I loved the whole cast.

@@Wirklich2420 It should have been Agnes Moorehead, at least she was here to enjoy it at the time. Aggie was robbed by that!! 😥

@@MarkovianMan Why are you showing this old look at a funny and great movie? You are too narrow in your thinking!

Miss Moorehead wore her own clothes in the show, including her ubiquitous diamond brooch. Only the lead players had wardrobe supplied by the show.

These observations crack me up we just enjoyed the show

Yes!

Idk about that , I love Elizabeth

Neither elizabeth she and Agnes where the star of the show

I agree with you

I do agree with you

I do agree with you

Good theatre apparently one of the Darren's was in serious pain due to back injuries

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I'd say Elizabeth was the best part, but they had a phenomenal cast - especially Endora, Darren #1, Aunt Clara, Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde was hilarious)

Can I add Dr Bombay, l loved his appearances

Endora, Aunt Clara and Tabitha!!

Although Liz Montgomery was the central character in the show and she gorgeous and fabulous, the show wouldn't have been as successful without Agnes ("Aggy") Moorehead. She was a phenomenal theatrical actress and no one else could've played that character the way she did. She was truly unique and just incredible. Her kinaesthetics and vocal acting were superb. I was scared of her a kid! She was so realistic.

It was a combo of Endora, Samantha and Darren #1. The straight man Darren always reacting to Endora’s magic with Samantha mediating between the two to reach a compromise.

YES! ❤

Rottweiler was my fave

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Sam couldn't help but laugh, too! I think Endora said that it was an improvement! Hilarious!

@J LA I think the main reason she didn't like her role as "Endora" was because she had a long and prosperous career as a serious actor, and she knew she was going down in history for playing "Endora," so everything else she had ever done in her time would be over-shadowed by that one role. (this is just a guess)

@@nambypamby2147 I would say that's a correct summation. She had been mentored by Orson Welles and was a Shakespearean- level actress. Her vocal training and mannerisms bring the Endora character to life to the point that she plays it like a Shakespearean witch in Macbeth!!! She's that incredible! She rejected the offer of the role initially when asked by Liz Montgomery when Liz ran into her in a department store one day. But later came to accept it. It is true that great actors in those days would look down their nose at television as a new medium and not a serious space for their talents. Many old studio system stars like Moorehead who were ageing rapidly during the heyday of TV in the 60s like Crawford, Davis and so on felt TV to be beneath them and only did pilots or guest appearances when their careers were fully washed up and they had no other choice. But thank Heavens Aggy decided to accept the part of Endora because she gave younger generations a chance to see the marvels of her stagecraft and acting talents. Watching Aggy play Endora should be a masterclass for young actors these days in how to chew up the scenery and steal a show, single-handedly!!

@@stmichl9433 Great explanation. I appreciate the details. She was too damn good. Also, Maurice Evans was another one on the show that could act on a whole other level. He was brilliant. There are no Aggys and Maurices anymore; not on TV anyway.

@@nambypamby2147 that's right. You might get them in the theatre. But not on tv and dare I say even in motion pictures these days. There are no actors - even the ones that people say are great like Anthony Hopkins - that are like those 2. It was a whole other caliber of actor and performer. I think a great deal has to do with the use of one's voice and an actor's elocution and articulation abilities. Many even so called legendary actors now - even Streep - don't have that baffling and beautiful elocution that Aggy and Maurice had. They have a Shakespearean way with the expression of the English language as well as a particular way of enunciating, pausing, and also the use of their whole bodies to make a point, or perhaps to stress an emotion or line. Watch the way Aggy often scrunches her face up, or her stare, her glare or the way she uses her hands. Her ability to express and interpret a witch's conjuring with the waving of her hands and kinaesthetics of her arms and shoulders I always thought (even when I was a kid) were absolutely mesmerising. Strangely, and queerly, Aggy's interpretation of Endora was somehow very modern at the time, as we hadn't really seen witch's portrayed in this way. They were usually old hags. But Aggy's innate and glamorous fashion sense (those were all her own wardrobe as her clothes weren't provided by the Producers or studio) really lent a certain vitality and modernity to the role of Endora. Watching her pop in and out of various fabulous ensembles (really chic two-piece suits often) and a plethora of different Hairstyles and costume jewellery for each outfit) was part of the real magic of Bewitched. It was like a small-screen runway show at a time when we didn't have internet or runway to watch everywhere. But Endora's moving and magical fashion show was really something to watch in those days! One has to remember that Bewitched began in black and white and moved into colour and so the female audience as well as the then closeted gay audience) were able to hold their breath in anticipation of Endora's next fashion trick, or gasp at her next look. Usually, she would change out of her signature turquoise and amethyst chiffon "Endora" witch's caftan and into something "mortal" whenever a visitor came to the door unexpectedly. Endora's transitions between costumes was to me such an integral part of the trope of "passing" for queer people. Agnes was a lesbian herself and I feel looking back, that this shift from witch to mortal; from queer to acceptable; from kooky to respectable was way ahead of its time but also very much of its time in prefiguring the three liberation movements of the time: womens', gay and black through the metaphors of taboo magic and witchcraft. I just loved all those nuances and transitions in the teleplay featuring Aggy as Endora. These are stagecraft feats that a lesser actress just wouldn't have understood or perhaps underplayed, but Aggy Moorehead got it all implicitly right. She was really quite something. Quite an artist.

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This fashion will always look good

I watch it still today . I watched it growing up also .

Yes! Marsha, Marsha, Marsh!

I thought that she looked familiar.

Yes it was too! Little Marcia!!!!! She did it so well too!!!! I always thought that scene was creepy how Endora miniaturised herself and then we see mini-Marcia/Maureen playing Endora as a child! So so creepy yet so funny! Especially in hindsight knowing that this was years before Maureen was cast as Marcia on the Brady bunch as she was still so little here. So weird also how much Marcia/Maureen looks so much like a mini-Endora around the eyes! Lol omg! So so camp and funny! 😂😂😂

Love this story! My husband took me to a stage theater production of one of the episodes of Bewitched. He proposed to me after the show! Said Endora put a spell on him lol. I also grew up watching this on Nick at Nite, and I miss watching it with my brother, who is no longer with us. Beautiful memories! 💓

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I would say that's a correct summation. She had been mentored by Orson Welles and was a Shakespearean- level actress. Her vocal training and mannerisms bring the Endora character to life to the point that she plays it like a Shakespearean witch in Macbeth!!! She's that incredible! She rejected the offer of the role initially when asked by Liz Montgomery when Liz ran into her in a department store one day. But later came to accept it. It is true that great actors in those days would look down their nose at television as a new medium and not a serious space for their talents. Many old studio system stars like Moorehead who were ageing rapidly during the heyday of TV in the 60s like Crawford, Davis and so on felt TV to be beneath them and only did pilots or guest appearances when their careers were fully washed up and they had no other choice. But thank Heavens Aggy decided to accept the part of Endora because she gave younger generations a chance to see the marvels of her stagecraft and acting talents. Watching Aggy play Endora should be a masterclass for young actors these days in how to chew up the scenery and steal a show, single-handedly!!

I think the older generation of British Shakespearean actors, tended to look down on things like working in television, or science fiction and fantasy, as a step down, as something of an embarrassment to their career. The way that Alec Guinness felt about doing Star Wars... What they didn’t realize about pop culture phenoms in television and film... is how much they are loved, by a mass audience of fans, far wider than stage and even the big screen. All these years later, both old and new generations of fans, love them. This woman was an acting powerhouse. Anything she set her talents to was elevated. Plain and simple. It’s all good. All of it. We were lucky to have them. Truly.

Truest words ever spoken.

@@stmichl9433 thank you!

Didn't like the bitch character Endora but loved Agnes in The Bat movie with Vincent Price. If you think she's a bitch in Bewitched see her great bitchy performance in the superb film noir Dark Passage 1947 with Bogart and Bacall.

@@roberttelarket4934 ...YES, I REMEMBER!!!

People always say he was hilarious but when I look back at those episodes his humour was very corny by today's standards and the jokes just fall flat. But I suppose in those days people found that corniness hysterical. It's very dated. I do love bewitched though as a series and don't find it dated as a show. Something timeless about it. I think it's the superb acting and ensemble cast.

Even the cape/dress?

@@marcusbell5606 Yes as I understand it.

That just makes me love her more!

She also made up the name Endora.

@@mpshields Interesting!

I loved Aunt Clara!

I loved Aunt Clara and her clumsiness.

Everyone should have an Aunt Clara in their family. Without the backfiring powers, of course.

nice she was but she didnt know how to enter a room her powers was messedup alot samantha had to help her out most of the time

I thought the curly hair looked good on him too.

...true-!!!

I did.

I DID-!!

I did !!

She also played “Little Endora” in a first season episode when Darrin had a daydream that all of his and Samantha’s kids were witches. They flew around Darrin’s office on brooms, and Little Endora turned her brother into a houseplant before Sam made her change him back.

@@johnmanier7968 I remember that episode was Maureen in that too??? Wow! Good spotting!

Yes she was

This show is as popular today as it was back in the day!!!

I so miss her!! 😭there is no other person like her today, in movies/stage or telly.💜

I ❤ I dream of jeanne

Ok

yes it is.