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[Rezny@gmail.com]

"jump the shark"website,when they had viewer comments about "Bewitched"(this was about 3 or 4 years ago,)not recently because "jump the shark"has drastically changed,that when Dick York left "Bewitched",Elizabeth Montgomery did not see Dick York AFTER he'd left-kinda shunned him,-because on the same website I read that when he (Dick York)called her to congratulate her after she did something,or just to"shoot the breeze"(talk to one another),and wouldn't return his calls.And did she go to his funeral when he died?

[catlover79]

I don't really know what the deal was with them - all I know for sure is that DY had NOTHING but kind things to say about Liz up until he died. Liz was not at his funeral, which was in Michigan.

I don't put much stock in the talk about what their offscreen relationship was/wasn't like. The only two people who know for sure, Liz and Dick, are now gone and can't say anything. All I really care about is that they had an amazing chemistry together and made Sam and Darrin believable as a passionate husband and wife.

[Larry Tate]

Bottom line is that Liz & Dick York worked together & Brilliantly i might add, but there never was a close personal Friendship or any relationship to continue, nor were they friends at all.

You have to understand that they were real people who were actors playing roles that were not them, they were not Samantha & Darrin in real life, sometimes people get that reality confused.

This is not unusual as one could say the same thing about any cast member & the majority of the cast as well about anyone & most of those that worked with her, their never having any contact again after his leaving the show is perfectly natural in my view.

This doesn't mean they liked or disliked each other, they merely worked with each other & had the same working experience that any actor or actress has with 95% of all those they work with.

It was a job & they had a job to do & they did it, then they went their own way, as you must recall that they both had spouses & large young families to tend too, this along with the full time job of carrying a weekly series left little or no time for any other interaction between the two, they both already had a full plate to deal with.

I have heard it said that she strongly disliked Dick York but this is in no way corroborated in the least & there is no basis to think that it is so.

These internet rumors are i feel made up by those that have their own issues & for some reason need to use this fiction to express them.

After DY left the show there was simply no reason for them to have any contact with each other as is the case with all actors pretty much once they finish a project, they just move on with their lives.

Liz had real phobias with anything medical so i can see her not wanting to go the hospital to see him for this reason.

Liz & Dick Sargent had drifted apart & lost touch shortly after Bewitched ended & had not seen each other in about 15 years till they were reunited when both were approached by Herbie J Pilato in regards to interviews for his then upcoming book The Bewitched Book, they reconnected through Herbie as they discussed if they should cooperate or not with him.

When Herbie met David White for the first time in Liz's Garden at her home as a special surprise for him, he was told by David White he had not been there for over 15 years.

So she drifted apart even from good friends as people do when the matter that brought them together in the first place ended.

So these things are natural & normal & not anything that should reflect negatively on her, quite the opposite, this is how it is supposed to be & is with everyone in life & was the case as well with any member of this or any other cast of this or any other show.

Same thing with her good friend Carol Burnett when Carol moved to Hawaii, they just lost touch after being great friends since they did
Who's Been Sleeping in my bed? together in 1963.

She kept in touch with Erin Murphy mainly because Erin was such great friends with her kids, but when they all grew up Liz lost touch with Erin as well.

Life happens & means nothing other then that, as was the case when Liz & Dick York lost contact with each other & they were not even friends like she & DS & DW were.

One time DY called Liz about an interview he was going to do with a American Journal an ET type of show, she was not home & never got back to him about it, that was the only time i heard he called her.

By the time he passed it had been about 25 years since Liz had seen DY so to jet half way across the country to Mich. after all that time would have seemed to be strange to me as they were just co-workers period.

Larry Tate

Originally Posted by rrezny@usnetizen

"jump the shark"website,when they had viewer comments about "Bewitched"(this was about 3 or 4 years ago,)not recently because "jump the shark"has drastically changed,that when Dick York left "Bewitched",Elizabeth Montgomery did not see Dick York AFTER he'd left-kinda shunned him,-because on the same website I read that when he (Dick York)called her to congratulate her after she did something,or just to"shoot the breeze"(talk to one another),and wouldn't return his calls.And did she go to his funeral when he died?

[Big3sCompanyFan]

Originally Posted by Larry Tate

One time DY called Liz about an interview he was going to do with a American Journal an ET type of show, she was not home & never got back to him about it, that was the only time i heard he called her.

By the time he passed it had been about 25 years since Liz had seen DY so to jet half way across the country to Mich. after all that time would have seemed to be strange to me as they were just co-workers period.

Larry Tate

Do you know if Liz ever even TALKED to Dick York AT ALL after Bewitched ended? Why would Liz be friends with Dick Sargent and not Dick York?? Dick York was Darrin for a much longer time so that doesn't make any sense unless Liz knew DS before he was on Bewitched.

I see what you mean about them just being co-workers but they played a couple in one of TV's most iconic series for over half a decade so it seems strange that Liz wouldn't even talk to Dick after the show ended.

It's ironic you mention Liz had a phobia of hospitals since she would end up having a condition that was caused by her avoidance of doctors.

I see what you mean about rumors on the internet or otherwise since there was a rumor that Sherman Helmsley and Isable Sanford (The Jeffersons)hated each other and hated working but the truth was just the opposite.

It does seem sad though that Liz seemed to not want to have anything to do with Dick York after the show for some strange reason and he was the best Darrin on the show for sure!