Barbara eaton biography

(1931-)

Who Is Barbara Eden?

Actress Barbara Eden made her film debut in 1956's Back from Eternity. This was followed by a series of unremarkable films throughout the 1950s and '60s. In 1965, she hit it big playing the genie in the bottle on the TV sitcom I Dream of Jeannie opposite Larry Hagman. The popular show ran for five years.

Early Life

Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead, on August 23, 1931, in Tucson, Arizona. Eden was a cheerleader in high school and a pop singer as a teenager. She graduated in 1949 from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Eden appeared in several films and television shows. Her first film role, uncredited, was in Back from Eternity in 1956. In 1957, she starred on TV in How to Marry a Millionaire, based on the movie of the same name.

She was also featured in popular shows, including I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Route 66 and a pilot called The Barbara Eden Show, which never Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and the Bluestocking Circle: A ....