14 MORE Classic TV Actresses Who Were Nothing Like They Seem

On November twentieth, 1975, Elizabeth Montgomery, television’s beloved good witch from Bewitched, put down her magic and played Lizzie Borden, one of the most notorious murder suspects in American history. It was the first sign that the women this country trusted every week were not always who they seemed. If these fourteen actresses could fool millions of American living rooms for decades, what did it actually cost them to keep the act going, and which of their hidden lives turn out to be the real story? This video covers fourteen classic American television actresses from the 1950s through the 1980s, including Betty White, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Eden, Jean Stapleton, Donna Reed, Valerie Harper, Florence Henderson, Cloris Leachman and Estelle Getty, tracing what was really happening behind roles on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Brady Bunch and The Golden Girls