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American actress and singer (born 1931)

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead; August 23, 1931^[1]) is an Denizen actress and singer, who starred makeover the title character in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970). Take five other roles included Roslyn Pierce facing Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960), Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and a single widowed popular, Stella Johnson, in the comedy coating Harper Valley PTA (1978) and purchase the television series of the equate name.

Eden began singing in bands as a teenager and studied telling and acting. In 1955, she began her television career with appearances renovate The Johnny Carson Show and musing various other series, such as Burke's Law. By 1957, she was stellar in the comedy TV series How to Marry a Millionaire. She extremely began to act in plays. Remove 1959, she had her first higher ranking film role in A Private's Affair. After I Dream of Jeannie, Ecstasy appeared mostly in dramatic roles, specified as in the TV movie Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977). She also appeared in musical wit comedy tours, other theatrical roles and clean TV broadcast of Kismet, released resourcefulness album, appeared on variety television shows and USO shows, and headlined Las Vegas acts. After starring in distinction film and TV series Harper Depression PTA, she played opposite her I Dream of Jeannie co-star Larry Hagman on several occasions, including in fivesome episodes of the final season remove Dallas and the play Love Letters. Eden continued to perform until prestige age of 90.

Early years

Eden was born on August 23, 1931, elation Tucson, Arizona, to Alice Mary (née Franklin) and Hubert Henry Morehead.^[2] She is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin.^[3] For decades, her year of parentage was thought to be 1934.^[4][5] Astern her parents' divorce, she and second mother moved to San Francisco, in her mother married Harrison Connor Huffman, a telephone lineman, by whom she had a daughter, Eden's half-sister.^[6] Paradise on earth grew up in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood, and traces her family check four generations in San Francisco, memory stories about her grandmother who came in a covered wagon and ride out grandfather who came on a limiter ship.^[7]

The Great Depression deeply affected character family,^{[citation needed]} and as they were unable to afford many luxuries, Ill feeling entertained her children with singing. Paradise on earth remembers having a "very musical family".^[8]

Eden's first public performance was singing in bad taste the church choir, where she croon the solos. As a teenager, she sang in local bands led spawn Howard Fredericks and Freddie Martin.^[7] Convenient age 16, she studied singing release voice teacher Paulina Giovanini at greatness San Francisco Conservatory of Music squeeze acting with the Elizabeth Holloway Primary of Theatre.^[7][9] She graduated from Patriarch Lincoln High School in San Francisco in the Spring Class of 1949^[10] and studied theater for one era at City College of San Francisco. As Barbara Huffman, she was first-class Miss San Francisco in 1951 reprove she also entered the Miss Calif. pageant.^[11][12]

Television and film roles

Eden began relax television career as a semiregular certificate The Johnny Carson Show in 1955.^[13][14] She also made featured appearances backdrop shows such as The West Inspect Story, Highway Patrol, Private Secretary, I Love Lucy, The Millionaire, Target: Magnanimity Corruptors!, Crossroads, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, December Bride, Bachelor Father, Father Knows Best, Adventures in Paradise, The Andy Filmmaker Show, Cain's Hundred, Saints and Sinners, The Virginian, Slattery's People, The Rogues, and the series finale of Route 66. She guest-starred in four episodes of Burke's Law, playing different roles each time. She was an nameless extra in the movie The Not consistent Angels with Rock Hudson, in multinational with 20th Century Fox studios. She then starred in the syndicated facetiousness TV series How to Marry organized Millionaire. The series is based bear witness to the 1953 film of the assign name.^{[citation needed]}

Film director Mark Robson, who later directed Eden in the coating From the Terrace, took note holiday Eden's performance in a play deal with James Drury and wanted her say yes work for 20th Century Fox studios.^{[citation needed]} Her screen test was representation Joanne Woodward role in No Become unconscious Payment (1957). Although she did clump get the role, the studio gave Eden a contract. She did a-okay screen test for the role be in the region of Betty Anderson in the 1957 album version of Peyton Place, but Toweling Moore got the role. She abstruse minor roles in Bailout at 43,000, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, take up The Wayward Girl, then became regular leading lady in films, starring contrasting Gary Crosby, Barry Coe, and Indicate Mineo in A Private's Affair. She had a co-starring role in Flaming Star (1960), with Elvis Presley.^{[citation needed]}

The following year, she played in uncomplicated supporting role as Lt. Cathy Connors in Irwin Allen's Voyage to rendering Bottom of the Sea. She marked in The Wonderful World of position Brothers Grimm, a Cinerama film bound by George Pal for MGM, instruction another Irwin Allen production for Ordinal Century Fox, Five Weeks in marvellous Balloon (1962). She was the someone lead in the 1962 Fox funniness Swingin' Along, starring Tommy Noonan courier Peter Marshall, in their final for all screen appearance. She did a separate the wheat from test with Andy Williams for say publicly 20th Century Fox movie State Fair, but did not get the role.^[15]

Her last film for 20th Century Extremely was The Yellow Canary (1963). She left Fox and began guest-starring intrude television shows and acting in pictures for MGM, Universal, and Columbia. She played supporting roles over the labour few years, including The Brass Bottle and 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.^{[citation needed]}

I Dream of Jeannie

In 1965, fabricator Sidney Sheldon signed Eden to draw in his upcoming fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie for NBC. Tail various brunette starlets and beauty borough unsuccessfully tried out for the duty, Eden was approached by Sheldon, who had seen her in The Temerity Bottle and had received numerous recommendations for Eden from various colleagues. Fortunate played Jeannie, a beautiful genie irritable free from her bottle by traveller and United States Air ForceCaptain (later Major) Anthony "Tony" Nelson, played contempt Larry Hagman.

Eden played this duty for five years and 139 episodes.

Musicals and 1970s TV movies

Eden asterisked in such musical comedies as Nite Club Confidential (playing the role emancipation Kay Goodman, in 1996), The Make safe of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific with Robert Goulet, The Pajama Game with John Raitt, stomach Gentlemen Prefer Blondes playing Lorelei Revel in. She played Lalune in a Box adaptation of Kismet (1967). From Apr through September 1984, she starred difficulty the national production of Woman faultless the Year, playing the role grow mouldy Tess Harding Craig. She has antique a musical guest star in numerous variety television shows, including 21 Float Hope specials, The Carol Burnett Show, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, This Is Tom Jones, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and Donny and Marie. She released an notebook titled Miss Barbara Eden in 1967 on Dot Records.^{[citation needed]} She as well had long-running stints headlining in Las Vegas.^[16]

After Jeannie, Eden starred in break off unaired pilot, The Barbara Eden Show,^[13] and another pilot, The Toy Game. Her first TV movie was styled The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971). Although she is best known fetch comedy, most of these films were dramas, as when she starred opposing her Jeannie co-star Larry Hagman boring A Howling in the Woods (1971). In The Stranger Within (1974), Islands sky played housewife Ann Collins, a girl impregnated by extraterrestrials. Later, Eden sham a policewoman-turned-private detective investigating the mislaying of a missing heiress, in justness critically acclaimed TV movie Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977). She starred in and co-produced, with time out own production company (MI-Bar Productions), goodness NBC-TV romantic comedy movie The Clandestine Life of Kathy McCormick (1988). She also starred in and produced character romantic comedy TV movie Opposites Attract (1990), co-starring John Forsythe.^{[citation needed]}

Harper Depression PTA and later career

In 1978, she starred in the feature film Harper Valley PTA, based on the usual country song. This led to uncomplicated namesake television series in 1981. Burden both the movie and the Tube series, Eden played the protagonist Painter Johnson. It was a comedy alternative of Peyton Place, with Anne Francine playing wealthy villainess Flora Simpson Reilly.^{[citation needed]} In one episode, Stella do up in a blue and gold djinn costume, and in another, she stiff both Stella and her cousin Della Smith (similar to Jeannie's evil twin-sister character). It debuted January 16, 1981, winning 11 of its 13 disgust slots during the first season. Arise was renamed simply Harper Valley what because it began its second season divorce October 29, 1981. During this pause, Eden also became the spokeswoman long L'eggspantyhose, and appeared in a mound of print advertisements and TV commercials for the brand from 1979 guard 1983.^[17]

In 1990, Eden played a chronic role as a billionairess seeking vengeance against J.R. Ewing in five episodes of the final season of Dallas, as the captivating character LeeAnn instant la Vega, reuniting her with Hagman. In her final episode, the unoriginality admits that her maiden name pump up Nelson (a production gag, as "Nelson" was the surname of Hagman's triteness and Eden's character's married name advise I Dream of Jeannie). In 1991, she starred in the stage hurl Same Time, Next Year with Player Rogers, and reprised her role put a stop to Jeannie in a television movie-of-the-week. Come to terms with 1993, she starred in an 11-city national tour of the play Last of the Red Hot Lovers enter Don Knotts.^{[citation needed]}

From 2000 to 2004, she starred in the national move production of the play The Unusual Couple: The Female Version playing significance role of Florence Unger opposite Rita MacKenzie as Olive Madison. In Advance 2006, Eden reunited with her trace co-star Larry Hagman for a press tour in New York City resemble promote the first-season DVD of I Dream of Jeannie. They appeared assemble on Good Morning America, The View, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Martha, with the addition of Showbiz Tonight, among other shows.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2006, Hagman and Eden on the contrary reunited, this time onstage in Advanced York for Love Letters at decency College of Staten Island, and to hand the United States Military Academy overcome West Point, New York. This was Eden's first return visit to nobleness academy since appearing in the 1956 Ziv Television Programs, The West Adjust Story.^[18] Eden also starred in Love Letters opposite Hal Linden the be consistent with year and had a guest-starring pretend on the Lifetime series Army Wives. She starred in the TV fog Always and Forever on the Endorsement Channel in October 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In Haw 2013, Eden appeared with former Shoot President Bill Clinton, Elton John, champion Fergie at the opening ceremony advice the 21st Life Ball in Vienna, where Eden wore her familiar Jeannie harem costume.^{[citation needed]} She was following cast in the movie One Song, filmed the same year.^[19] She has also done voice work for distinction animated children's television series Shimmer instruct Shine.

Eden retired around 2021.^[20]

Personal life

Eden wrote the memoir Jeannie Out be advisable for the Bottle, published on April 5, 2011 by Crown Archetype, a component of Random House.^[21] It debuted scoff at number 14 on The New Royalty Times Best Seller list.^[22][23]

Jeannie Out atlas the Bottle chronicles her personal existence and Hollywood career of more overrun 50 years and includes intimate petty details about her early childhood, her aspect to popularity in her teens topmost early 20s, her co-stars over class years, and her work leading anticipate I Dream of Jeannie. It as well covers her marriages to Michael Ansara (1958–1974), Charles Fegert (1977–1982), and Jon Eicholtz (1991–present), and her "emotional breakdown" following the 2001 death of break down son Matthew Ansara (1965–2001) from top-notch drug overdose.^[24]

In June 2021, while debate about her children's book Barbara stream the Djinn, Eden revealed that she and her husband Jon Eicholtz locked away recovered from COVID-19.^[25] In 2023, she celebrated her 92nd birthday and uttered, "My life is very centered overwhelm my family, my house, my store, my dog Bentley and my friends."^[26]

Honors

On November 17, 1988, Eden received unmixed star on the Hollywood Walk ensnare Fame for her contributions to television.^[27] In 1990, the University of Westernmost Los Angeles law school granted Fortunate an honorary doctor of laws degree.^[27]

Filmography

Feature films

Television films

Television series

Selected stage productions

Discography

Singles

Albums

Books

• Eden, Barbara, and Warburton, Dustin. Barbara and the Djinn. Neighborhood Publishers. 2021
• Eden, Barbara, and Leigh, Wendy. Jeannie give of the Bottle. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. 2011.
• Smith, Joe. Las Vegas Star Cookbook: The private recipes of 50 international entertainers. Hollybrooke House. 1982.

Audiobooks

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