Barbara Eden is 90 today!

Wow, she looks great for 90!

Happy Birthday, Jeannie.

Just watched her on I Love Lucy yesterday. It is one my my favorite episodes and she was great. She made lots of fun TV movies too. Like this one.

Embalming fluid and plenty of clothing to cover the wrinkles and age spots.

Much as Jeanie was a bargain basement version of Bewitched, after Liz Montgomery's death, Eden became the bargain basement queen of tv movies, with dinner theater in between. Then it was recycling the same tired anecdotes.

“But yes! - Diana, Country Club Cousin, Whore of the Dance Floor

I remember her from a tv movie "Harper Valley PTA."

r4 Just stop it.

r2 and r5 Lucy was impressed by the way Barbara gracefully fended off the advance of Desi. She never forgot it and alway liked Barbara.

I am going to celebrate by watching my old copy of this post-Jeannie suspense gem with Larry Hagman.

She always seemed like a nice person and it's really sad that her son ( her only child) died years ago from a drug problem.

As far as dramas, she was decent in probably the best Elvis movie, "The Flaming Star," probably because it was directed by a great director, Don Siegel. Barbara Steele had been cast originally and Siegel hated her. Someone at Fox was enamored by Steele, maybe Nunnally Johnson. Siegel felt she couldn't act and was far too tall and was far too imperious and just couldn't pull off "frontier woman." Plus, she was wearing a distracting blonde wig. Siegel and Steele had numerous tiffs on set until Steele either walked off or got fired. Eden had been waiting in the wings and was brought in.

Wow she outlived the entire cast of I Dream of Genie.😮 She’s another Bette White going strong.

The actress who played Mrs. Bellows on I Dream Of Jeannie- her name was Emmaline Harris- what a terrific name.

"I am going to celebrate by watching my old copy of this post-Jeannie suspense gem with Larry Hagman."

I'm going to celebrate by calling every man I see today, "Master!"

And if someone pisses me off, I'm going to "make them go away" by folding my arms across my chest and blinking.

My mother told me to pick YOUUUUUUUU!

r12 They are all living too long. It is throwing me off. I am starting to feel like they (Eden, White, Tina Louise, Mamie Van Doren, etc) are going to live forever.

Is she really friends with Colton Haynes?

r13 She was fab as Roe's sensible-yet-fabulous friend in Roe's Baby. When she pulled her into the kitchen the night of the party and said "Roe, honey, pain is a sign that something is WRONG!"

She was good on the very last season of Dallas.

Who the hell picks on Barbara Eden? This site is full of Ruth Robelines.

It’s the baby!!!!

Watch out, Barbara!

Betty Bacall probably would have picked on Barbara Eden.

[quote]I remember her from a tv movie "Harper Valley PTA."

It was a SERIES too, bitch!

[quote]her name was Emmaline Harris

Emmaline HENRY.

[quote]Wow she outlived the entire cast of I Dream of Genie.😮

Oh, dear.

[quote]She’s another Bette White going strong.

And again.

I wonder if Debbie tried it on withh 'line.

Lady Bandits?! Has there been a thread on this?

LOVED Barbara Eden as Loco on How to Marry a Millionaire!

Are there any current photos of Miss Eden out there? I can't quite imagine a 90 year old Barbara Eden.

Part time beard?

She's a doll.

I read her memoir and it was excellent. After the 3rd year of I Dream Of Jeannie the network offered her one big lump sum of money rather than residuals. She probably would have been better off sticking with the residuals from the 5 year show.

The show that made her a household name and solidified her fame.

She's one of the boys...

Who agrees with me and thinks that Major Healey was kinda cute on I Dream Of Jeannie.

Her first husband was very hot.

Not since Eden...

Any pics of Eden's original nose?

R6 "Harper Valley PTA" was actually a theatrical release and a surprise hit in 1978...it did exceptionally well at the box office ($25Million off a $1Million production budget) surprising everyone. It was inspired by the 1968 song and did so well upon its first network broadcast that it was rushed into a short lived series.

Just saw her interviewed a year or two ago and she was sharp and still very attractive.

She always stayed in her lane.

R41- Staying in your lane- here on dl there was a thread a number of years ago about guys out of your league and someone suggested that gay men should stay in their lane and not try to date or have sex with someone who's out of their league and gay men constantly complain about no one being interested them because they chase after A and B+ guys and they're barely a C.

r29 It was a cute show...one of the better TV adaptations from movies (and other source material). Lori Nelson was good too. Plus starlet/dancer Lisa Gaye had a featured role. Lisa (aka Leslie) was the younger sister of Teala Loring, Debra Paget and Frank Griffin...kind of a D list Barrymore family.

R39 The songwriter of Harper Valley PTA died this weekend too, Tom T. Hall.

She was rumored to have made extensive use of the casting couch.

And her son was fine. Pity that he died so young. She had a second child but he died in the womb and she had to carry him full term, with people congratulating her on being pregnant and her unable to tell people that the baby was already dead.

How the hell does a dead baby get to full term, r45???

She is fantastic

We've found our new Samantha!

June Lockhart of Lost in Space is 96!

We're really dating ourselves here, r43, but I also fondly remember Lisa Gaye from Love That Bob (aka The Bob Cummings Show) where she played a hot French cheesecake model (I think named Colette?) with an authentic accent and a sense of humor. I had no idea she was Debra Paget's sister (I think she's still with us?) but I see the family resemblance now.

Also on How to Marry a Millionaire as the third girl in the penthouse with Barbara Eden (Loco) and lovely Lori Nelson (Greta) was Merry Anders who had the suspicious character name, Mike. Even I was too young to watch these 2 TV series in their original evening format, but caught them in childhood post-school afternoon reruns for what seemed like forever.

R50 Yes, Debra Paget is still kicking! I did not know this: "Paget left the entertainment industry in 1964 after marrying Ling C. Kung on April 19, 1962. Kung was a Chinese-American oil industry executive, son of Confucius descendant H. H. Kung and Soong Ai-ling as well as the nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek from his maternal side. This third marriage produced a son, Gregory Teh-chi Kung, but ended in divorce in 1980."

For r46

, r52, did you read that? She didn't have to carry a dead baby "until it got to full term". A dead baby is not going to get to full term.

I always dreamed of jeannie

Read this r46, r53…

This was terrible to see her get taken by a fraudster.

Very sad, what a fraud. The medium was cruel to her.

Mary Tyler Moore also lost her only child, a son many years ago but for some reason I'm more sympathetic to Barbara Eden's loss than Mary Tyler Moore's loss, perhaps this is because I still see Mary as that DL fav - Beth Jarrett.

I lost SEVERAL niños! Muy triste. #sadface

[quote]I remember her from a tv movie "Harper Valley PTA."

I Dream of Jeannie C. Riley.

I Dream of Jeannine Riley.

I want to know how old Jeannie's WICKED sister would be today.

Still waiting for that recent photo of Barb.

Well.....adorable still. But she looks like she's made of melting red clay.

R63, Barb doesn't have to do photos, you douche.

I think MTM was a lot more Beth Jarret than Mary Richards.

R56 r57 Caputo and her BS makes me sick.

Miss Eden is beginning to resemble actress/dancer Mlle. Leslie Caron. Hang in there, Barbara.

Always liked Jeannie, not so much the sister.

It was a good thing that Major Nelson found that bottle on the beach, rather than Major Healey.

I dream of Genie Francis.

The Bellows, both homosexuals.

I can’t believe she’s 90!

[quote]I can’t believe she’s 90!

I thought she was 2000 when she played Jeannie

R71- Emmaline Henry was a LESBIAN in real life?

Joyce Bulifant was the original choice for Jeannie.

R64's pic flatters her not at all. The Howdie Doodie cheeks are probably a medical risk at her age, as well as a non-flattering look. They also seem asymmetrical--she should sue the doctor. Once this falls, he's really going to look like a freak. The dress is odd, too, a "young" face with an old lady dress just seems weird. She seems like she's become at risk for a Joan Rivers type death and needs to figure out how to age gracefully.

I bet that bellybutton has some dust in it by now.

R76 So she should age gracefully for the next 5-10 years? It’s not like she can have drastic procedures done at her age now.

R78: She shouldn't have any more of them, although I don't know what she can do with those freakish cheeks, though. She's a C-list actress who got old, beyond the occasional chat show, she doesn't have much of a career. She isn't fooling anyone.

I don't think Ms Eden is trying to "fool" anyone. She wants to see a certain image when she looks at herself in the mirror and if she's content, why should we hold it against her? It's not like she's some publicity whore, out there 24/7 promoting herself and pushing her face into our psyches at this point in history.

Barbara "doesn't have much of a career"?! The lady is 90 years old. 90!

It's not like she's working. Norman Lear has new shows on tv and he's older than her. People who have ridiculous plastic surgery at her age think they're fooling someone other than just themselves. Being a fan of some c-lister requires more sense of humor or reality than you have.

R82 is such a mega-douche. Wow.

R83- Let's have Jeannie's wicked sister but a curse on R82.

How is there no love boat, murder she wrote, or anything like that on her filmography?

Here's one of the Perry Mason episodes Barbara appeared in. The stable of men that appeared on that show kept me going last year. So many hunks.

R86- I'm impressed. Jeannie would NEVER of slapped her MASTER.

They had to figure out a way to get Raymond Burr to come to work every day, r86.

Recent photo of dear Barbara.

Still has it!

Barbara Eden. Real name, Barbara Jean Morehead. She won the genetic lottery jackpot and really was stunningly beautiful.

She mustn't have thought so as she had her nose bobbed.

Has anyone seen the movie the TV show was based on?

She was a serviceable actress but not a great one. Same with her singing. But she was okay.

[quote] I'm impressed. Jeannie would NEVER of slapped her MASTER.

Oh, DEAR.

[quote]Barbara Jean Morehead

Any relation?

Yassss…nooooo

1969

There is so much stuff on youtube with her. She must have never taken a day off. What a trooper!

She did Worst Cooks In America a few years ago. I hated when she was voted off. So damn cute.

Both "Bewitched" and "I Dreamed of Jeannie" had the guy forbidding the magical person from doing magic. I wonder what a show where he WANTED her to do the magic would have turned out like? Would he take over the world, or just relax and eat and sleep?

R100 He would eat, sleep, and fuck Jeannie’s brains out.

She once made a Made For TV Movie in the 70s with Barbara Feldman. I always thought those two would have been great together in a sitcom.

Barbara Feldon that is.

[quote] What a trooper!

Oh, dear.

OMG! "Let's Switch" had Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, Penny Marshall, AND Ron Glass.

[quote]OMG! "Let's Switch" had Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, Penny Marshall, AND Ron Glass.

I miss 1970s made-for-TV movies.

r92's movie is on TCM this afternoon -- part of Tony Randall Day.

Who did the evil dark-haired relative trope first? Bewitched or Jeannie?

I always thought Serena was a slut. But later I realized it was the free-thinking 60s

[quote]Who did the evil dark-haired relative trope first? Bewitched or Jeannie?

"Bewitched" did everything first. There would have been no "I Dream of Jeannie" without it.

There would have been no "Bewitched" without "I Married a Witch".

Barbara Eden in Kismet. 1967

With Anna Maria Alberghetti!

And George Charkiris!

Originally broadcast in color, unfortunately only a black and white kinescope recording has survived.

It's a pity even a kinescope survives.

I read a rumor on several sites that she worked as a prostitute before making it as a Hollywood star, maybe also later as well, then I guess mainly in richer endeavours.

That wouldn’t surprise me r113. A lot of actresses hooked to pay the rent.

Barbara Eden comes to Mayberry...

Any recent 2021 pics of her? I couldn't find any.

R116, give it a rest, frau. You piece of 💩

Does anyone remember The Interns and The New Interns? They were small, soapy B&W Columbia Pictures movies, but filled with (mostly) up and comers / contract players: Michael Callan, Inger Stevens, Suzy Parker, Stefanie Powers, Nick Adams, James MacArthur, and Barbara Eden, to name most.

Not only did Barbara Eden play Jeannie's WICKED sister but she also played Jeannie's MOTHER in two episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie.

[quote]Not only did Barbara Eden play Jeannie's WICKED sister but she also played Jeannie's MOTHER in two episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie.

I'm surprised they didn't try to get Agnes Moorehead for the role.

But why a blonde genie 🧞‍♂️? Was she supposed to be Circassian or something?

Gentlemen prefer them, r121.

I'm 91. I think.

Our FABULOUS Jeannie dancing around the room.

Loved her in the last season of the original Dallas taking her revenge on JR! Especially her exit scene walking into the lift at Ewing oil offices and cackling as the lift doors,were closing as she told JR his enemy and daughter in law Michelle Stevens was his new business partner!!

Watched Barbara just just last night from 1957 with a nice horny scene along Tony Randall

This thread seems like a memorial to Barbara Eden.

I have to remember and I'm glad that she's still alive.

Don't get too comfortable.

R106: When ever people post a simple "I miss.." it's usually something awful like Zayre's or leisure suits. Made for tv movies mostly were filler and Liz Montgomery or Suzanne Pleshette usually got the better ones. Much like Jeanie was second rate Bewitched. Ed's stuff was second rate Liz Montgomery.

Who the fuck calls Eden "Ed"?

R120, no it would have to be an 'off-brand' Agnes Morehead, like Mary Wickes

Some TV movies were definitely first-class stuff. Liz Montgomery, Patty Duke, Lindsay Wagner usually made very good made-for-TV films.

[quote]When ever people post a simple "I miss.." it's usually something awful like Zayre's or leisure suits. Made for tv movies mostly were filler and Liz Montgomery or Suzanne Pleshette usually got the better ones.

The bargain-basement quality, exploitative plots, C-list casts and lurid titles are the very things I miss about them, R129.

Swooning about some C-list actress who has outlived her peers is a bit like swooning over Winston-Salem, NC. Just pathetic.

Miss Kay Lenz will never be C-List!

r134 Oh my. Most of Dl sure hates TV vs movies. E.g. I Dream of Jeannie was very big around the world, still watchable today; no one outside of the US and maybe some other English-speaking countries has ever watched Bewitched, pretty much, most haven't heard of it either. She was in an episode of I Love Lucy, arguably the greatest and most important sitcom of all time, partially also becaus eit was done in the Golden Age of Television; and Desi hit on her repeatedly, and Lucille, the Queen of Television, seemed to be nice enough and supportive to her, a woman who supported quality and potential stars who deserved it and demanded hard work.

Jeannie was maybe a better work than Dallas, and started the stardom of Larry Hagman, and showed a quite different side to him than Dallas. It contained an openly gay man, of course for legal reasons it was very difficult to be open at that time in most societies, but he was pretty open, in a starring role; not expecting dl to be supportive of a successful, out gay man and gay-inclusive Movies and TV. Christina Aguilera started her career and big stardom with 'Genie in a Bottle', which I'm pretty sure was partially influenced by 'I Dream of Jeannie', and the memories it contained in social memory. Christina Aguilera was an antagonist to Britney Spears and her main rival to the throne for Queen of Pop at that time, and Britney Spears and her big stardom start was I guess influenced by Doris Day and the memories of her work and persona, e.g. she started out as claiming to be a virgin and wanting to wait 'till marriage with sex. Without Christina Aguilera Britney Spears would have never been as big and would have never created such big and grand songs and videos and concerts. I guess Barbara Eden was also an antagonist to Doris Day, and the battle between Christina and Britney was I guess more a battle between Mom Christina and Mom Britney, who I guess were influenced by Jeannie/Barbara Eden and Doris Day respectively quite a bit.

I know Dl hates everything and everybody post the 70s and somewhat 80s, but e.g. no Jeannie and no Barbara Eden, no Christina Aguilera and no Britney.

[Quote] no one outside of the US and maybe some other English-speaking countries has ever watched Bewitched, pretty much, most haven't heard of it either.

Maybe some English speaking countries?!

What an odd line or argument. Are you going to defend "Baywatch" next?

Jeannie in How To Marry A Millionaire

Who was the out openly gay man on I Dream of Jeannie?

[quote]Swooning about some C-list actress who has outlived her peers is a bit like swooning over Winston-Salem, NC. Just pathetic.

You're either brand-new to DL or simply don't belong here.

[quote]Who was the out openly gay man on I Dream of Jeannie?

Hayden Roarke, who played Dr. Bellows, was "unashamedly gay," Barbara Eden wrote in her 2011 book, "Jeannie Out of the Bottle."

Her son was fine.

He sends his love?

r127 Is much known about her health or how frail or not she is these days?

DL people here is a good episode of I Dream Of Jeannie- I remember watching this episode WAY back in the 1970's.

Barbara Elder.

A fun montage of our gal Jeannie.

I wonder if she is going to be another Olivia and live to 100?

I forgot about this TACKY remake of I Dream Of Jeannie from 1985.

Does anyone remember the made for tv movie Eden did with Heather Locklear on the heels of the Jane Pauley/Deborah Norville controversy on the Today Show? It totally played on the All About Eve elements in the Pauley/Norville story. I'm sure the early 40s Pauley was none too pleased to have her tv analogue played by the 60 something Eden.

Tasteful friends...

[quote]Does anyone remember the made for tv movie Eden did with Heather Locklear on the heels of the Jane Pauley/Deborah Norville controversy on the Today Show?

I remember an SNL sketch from the time that also played the Jane Pauley/Deborah Norville controversy like a variation on "All About Eve," with Jan Hooks as Margo/Jane.