He and Cagney must have cooked this up, I’m sure they did, oh God. It was Night Must Fall, I was about…God, I don’t remember, I was not very old. Then again, why they would pick this one for the first movie I’d be allowed to see him in? God only knows. They ran it at the studio and I can remember sitting there between the two of them. My mom wasn’t there, maybe she didn’t know about it. She probably would’ve killed him if she’d known. And I sat there watching this thing, not knowing half of what I was seeing. […] And I remember sitting there going, “Oh my God, that’s my father up there doing these weird things”, and I remember thinking, “This is a little long”. […] And it was like really strange, and that whistle––which kinda bug me. So I sat there without really knowing what I was seeing.

About 3 or 4 nights later, I had gone to bed, and I had this bedroom that had a closet at the end of the room, where my bed face this thing. And I was just going off to sleep, so––God only knows how long he stayed there––he had this plastic cast of his face […] and I heard (she started whistling) ––and the door started to swing open, and I saw his face; and he was holding this thing in his hand with a flashlight underneath it. Well, I just about freaked out. I was screaming and carrying on, and I couldn’t figure out whether to get under the covers or run out of the bedroom. And my mother came in, she was furious at him. But what a terrible movie for an 8-year-old to see”. -Elizabeth Montgomery on the first time seeing her father on-screen (x)