HOME WHAT'S NEW BIOGRAPHY PHOTO GALLERIES SCREEN CREDITS STAGE CREDITS ON THE RECORD MEMORABILIA SIX YEAR GIG ASHMONT A WORTHWHILE VENTURE LIZ'S DAD WANTED ITEMS LINKS GUESTBOOK MAILING LIST CONTACT THE WEBMASTER			WHY I HID MY HUSBAND FROM THE WORLD TV Top Stars 1966
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			The first time a girl marries, she wants the whole world to know. There's the formal announcement of the engagement, the showers, the trousseau and at last marching down the aisle of her church in white satin and a veil, with photographers snapping like mad, and pictures in the newspapers to let everyone know she's a bride. That's the way it was with Elizabeth Montgomery when, at 21, she married socialite Frederic Cammann. But despite all the trappings, papers carried a smaller item little more than a year later, telling of their Las Vegas divorce...The second time is apt to be somewhat less spectacular. When Liz married actor Gig Young in 1956, there was less fanfare, and six years later she got a divorce the easy way, by a quick trip to Mexico, where the whole thing was accomplished within hours...And the third time--well, when a girl has tried marriage twice, she is apt to be self-conscious about a third trip to the altar. Sure as she may be herself that this time is the real thing, she may be concerned about what other people will say, and decide that the best way to handle it is to say nothing at all. Thus, when Liz married director William Asher in the fall of 1963, it was without the accompaniment of camermen or reporters, and no announcement was made, even when the marriage was a fait accompli. Some people knew, of course, and others must have suspected, but for months the event was such a well-kept secret that even Hollywood gossip columnists missed it. Liz and Bill had been dating...they were working together on a prospective TV series. It was only natural that they be seen together. Only when the approaching advent of young William Allen Asher made further secrecy impossible was the marriage made public.      Why the secrecy? Liz has never said, but somewhere in the back of her mind must have been worry lest she be considered the sort of girl who flits from husband to husband...lest this marriage, like her others, be unsuccessful. For a girl like Liz, carefully brought up in a socially correct, as well as a celebrated, household, such doubts could easily trigger her desire to keep her new love hidden from the world.      But today Liz and Bill Asher are happy beyond the shadow of a doubt. Liz burbles glowingly about her life as a wife and mother, and Bill echoes her every word. Both whip out pictures of little Billy, their going-on-two son, at the drop of a suggestion, and talk excitedly of their second child, scheduled for this fall. They practice togetherness as if they had invented it, working together on "Bewitched" during the day and spending evenings and week-ends at home playing with little Billy, bicycling, playing tennis, plotting their future, and of course watching "Bewitched" on ABC-TV Thursdays at 9:00 ET.      The daughter of actor Robert Montgomery and former actress Elizabeth Allen, Liz was 32 on April 15. She grew up in the rarefied atmosphere of Hollywood's top circles; made her acting debut with her father in a TV role on "Robert Montgomery Presents..." has since played more TV roles than she can count. But until she clicked last year as Samantha on her own TV series, she was "Robert Montgomery's daughter." With her new marriage and her new stardom, she is a new and different person. She is happy, content, fulfilled. Maybe the secrecy had something to do with it all.