This biography of the iconic star Elizabeth Montgomery arrives as Sony and CBS revive a new Bewitched TV series for autumn 2012. Based on Pilato's exclusive interviews with Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, this book will include never-before published material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including her classic feature films The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? (1963), and Johnny Cool (1963). Two of Montgomery's many popular TV movies, A Case of Rape (which remains one of the highest-rated TV-movies of all time) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (which will soon be remade as a feature film), were groundbreaking and remain classics. But Twitch Upon a Star also goes behind the scenes to explore Montgomery's political activism, including her early advocacy for AIDS research and the peace movement, support for the gay community, and controversial participation as narrator of the Oscar-winning Cover Up feature films about the Iran/Contra scandal of the l980s. In addition, Montgomery had complicated relationships with her father, screen legend Robert Montgomery (she was a liberal; he was a staunch conservative), and four husbands (including actor Gig Young, who later died in a double murder/suicide). Still, to friends such as fellow performers Sally Kemp and Florence Henderson, Ronny Cox, and the Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson she was just Lizzie, as amiable off the screen as the bewitching Samantha the witch-with-a-twitch Stephens who appeared in our living rooms for eight years in one of television's most popular sitcoms.