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TV CAMEOS: Barbara Eden
Horizons Are Widening Now for “Jeannie’'
By MEL HEIMER
WHEN Hollywood producer Sidney Sheldon
created the “I Dream of Jeannie” TV show for
NBC, he definitely did not fashion the role of
the genie Jeannie for Barbara Eden —but after
a few weeks of work on the project, it’s entirely
possible he began to wonder if he hadn't done
so after all.
"Sidney told me after he had signed me that
everybody he talked to kept saying ‘Barbara
Eden IS Jeannie,’ ” Miss Eden says with a grin
on her handsome face. "And it reached a kind
of climax. I guess, when his cousin, a talent
agent, told him the same thing. Os course, I
have to add that the cousin was MY agent.”
• • •
WHETHER Sheldon was browbeaten into
signing Barbara or not, it was the wisest of
moves and now, as the show moves into its
fourth season, Miss Eden has become the most
beautiful 2500-year-old girl in the world. And a
household word. "Career-wise It's been marvel
ous,” she says. "I've done lots of guest appear
ances, played 'Kismet' onstage and even done a
nightclub act at the Frontier in Las Vegas."
Another result of the popularity of "Jeannie”
is that movie people have begun to knock on
her door, “although early in my career, I made
a lot of films. I was kissed, hugged and mauled
endlessly and all I did was react—-when the
camera happened to be on me.” Much as she
likes the movie medium, however, Barbara
doesn’t want to be in pictures on a large level
unless they can be good ones, "working with a
director like Billy Wilder, say, or doing some of
the kind of roles Shirley MacLaine has had.”
Unless that comes about, she's content to stick
with video.
...
THE BLONDE Miss Eden has more of a show
biz background than most. Tucson-born, she
sang with small dance bands in the San Fran
cisco area from the time she was 14. but a good
dose of that convinced her it wasn’t what she
wanted to do. "although I liked the musicians
and almost married one.”
At 18 she went to Hollywood and holed up at
the Studio Club, where such souls as Kim
Novak, Barbara Rush and Virginia Shaw had
preceded her. "She got jobs in little theaters and
worked nights as a bookkeeper in a Los Angeles
bank. It was while doing "The Voice of the
Turtle” for a little theater at Laguna Beach
that director Mark Robson spotted her and
shortly thereafter she got the big break, the
part of Loco in the "How to Marry a Million
aire” series.
Blue-eyed Barbara, has been branching out on
the music-and-dance side lately, with the act she
did in Vegas, and she has a recording contract
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With a record pact and nightclub act,
Barbara Eden is beginning now to make
"I Dream of Jeannie" pay off large.
■ as well. Her pictures have included “The New
Interns," “The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao,” "The
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” and
: "The Glass Bottle.” On "Jeannie,” of course,
, she plays not only the genie but also her dark
haired, seductive sister and her dark-haired,
zaftig mother.
IT COULD BE, however, that the biggest
thing in her life is three-year-old Matthew, her
, and Michael Ansara’s son. The husky Ansara,
who was "Cochise” in TV and plays Indians all
over the place, although his ancestry is Leban
ese, recently has been doing “The King and I”
in Toronto. "He shaved his head and I helped
him shave all the hair from his arms and legs,”
Barbara grins. “I wish we could have had some
home movies of it. It would have won a comedy
Oscar."