Erin Murphy worked with many actors when she played child witch Tabitha Stephens on Bewitched, but 60 years later, she still has a favorite.
In an October 2025 interview with Remind Magazine, the former child star revealed that while she enjoyed working with Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, and Dick Sargent on the 1960s sitcom, she had “many” fond memories of working with Agnes Moorehead, the Oscar-nominated actress who played her grandmother, Endora, on the beloved series.
“She was my favorite,” Murphy, now 61, admitted in the interview. “I haven’t always said that because I’m really, really diplomatic, but she was far and away my favorite because I loved her like a grandma. She treated me like her grandchild.”
Murphy, who was just two years old when she first appeared on Bewitched, recalled hanging out in Moorehead’s dressing room, where the legendary actress would draw her cartoons. “I still have some of them, like little animation things that she drew for me. I loved her,” she said of Moorehead.
Murphy also revealed that Moorehead, who ran an acting school out of her home, had promised to teach her about fencing when she got older. “Because it’s all about the back and forth and it’s such an important thing to know as an actor,” Murphy said. “I always thought about that, as I got older.”
Sadly, Moorehead died on April 30, 1974, just two years after Bewitched went off the air.
Murphy previously told Pop Entertainmentthat she had a special nickname for Moorehead when they worked together on Bewitched. “My real grandparents lived far away. She was the grandmother I saw every day, and I called her grandmama,” she said of Moorehead. “I would run to her and hug her. She was like a real grandparent to me.”
“She was fabulous in real life,” Murphy added of the eclectic star. “She was amazing. She was probably my favorite, just because she was so colorful and so much fun. She would draw me little cartoons of mice and witches in between scenes. I didn’t think she was anything like Endora. Other people would say, ‘oh, she’s so intimidating,’ but she certainly wasn’t to me. She was just loving and wonderful.”
Six decades later, Murphy still lovingly refers to Moorehead as her “grandmama.” In March, she shared a throwback Bewitched promotional photo of her and Moorehead to X as she proudly recalled her TV grandmother’s groundbreaking stint as co-host of the 21st Academy Awards in 1948.
“Who was the very first female Host of the Oscars?” Murphy wrote. “My Grandmama, Agnes Moorehead!“
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