Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitching Life
by Rita E. Piro
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Book Summary Information
Author: Rita E. PiroEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-20
ISBN: 0970626193
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Great Feats Press
Book Reviews of Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitching Life
Book Review: not very well put together
Summary: 2 Stars
It was informative, but overall it wasn't that fantastic. Its formatting was full of misaligned spaces and typographical errors, especially with quotation marks. A few words had a line through them and I can't understand how that even would have happened on accident. Some sentences were repeated in later paragraphs as if the editors had copied and pasted without deleting the original. Most of the pictures had obvious digital compression and many were pixellated due to them being scanned at low resolutions and stretched out. Some of the captions say stuff like "from very old negatives," but that couldn't possibly influence pixellation of images. I also suspect a lot of her "old negatives" are scans from magazines because of the way the images look textured in ways printed photos and negatives would not be. Some of the other images are badly xeroxed newspaper clippings.
The author's intro sets the book up as a more correct portrait of Montgomery's life compared to TV documentaries (I assume she means the A&E Biography, E! True Hollywood Story and MSNBC Headliners and Legends programs), because, unlike those which use other people like friends and associates as sources, she was using Montgomery's own words. The main problem with this, though, is that all of her quotes seem to come from TV and film fan magazines, publications which weren't always accurate. I'm sure a lot of the quotes and interviews were authentically transcribed by journalists way back when, but Piro never footnotes magazine titles or authors and only sometimes says from which year the quotes are. This makes it impossible for the reader to evaluate her sources. The bibliography at the end is in no discernible order and only lists journal sources by publication title and article title... no year, author or page numbers. I don't suggest the author made things up, but it is difficult to accept these quotes at face value if she won't even directly say where they came from.
I learned a lot more about Montgomery's early life and family roots than I knew before, but I don't feel like I learned much new about her life after Bewitched started. Piro was good with the statistical details (EM went to this school, then this school, they were members of this country club in this year, she starred on this show in this year), but learning about EM as a person was limited a lot to whatever she happened to reveal in these above-mentioned magazine stories. One part I actually did like a lot was the touching story of the blind fan who got to meet Montgomery and her family when she visited California.
Overall, maybe check it out from a library, but it's not worth the ridiculous used prices of hundreds of dollars.
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