First of all, so called "Barbara Feldon" isn't her real name. There was nothing wrong with her actual birth name, Barbara Anne Hall. She obviously "sold out" his birth name because of the shallowness of the entertainment industry?! Most likely the change was made as the result of a greedy Business Manager or Studio, with perceived notions of greater recognition accompanied with monetary gains? Secondly and in reality, it's also shows blatant disrespect for one's parents & their family heritage, just to possibly obtain (not necessarily earn) a greater buck?!
A different motivation to take on a stage name is to act as insulation from the pressures that come with stardom. It is quite enough the attention that beautiful people get. Amplify that by putting your face into everyone's living rooms, and I can readily imaging that the weight of attention you get by stepping out into the public can be crippling. Psuedonyms and stage names are common practice to help protect one's psyche from that, even if only by a little bit. If a person calls her by the name 'Feldon', she instantly knows that it is an outsider. Whereas if she is called by the name she grew up with, there is much greater chance that it is a friend talking to her. So in that light, one might have counseled her to switch both her first and last names. To help make this contrast even more sharp. Her face alone must have been quite the double edged sword. What brought me here. And an easy guess... you too.
I was always so in love with agent 99.
Me too.
Super Fab!!!!!!
Thank you!!!
Such excellent enunciation and precise pronunciation.
Barbra was lovely, and what a voice....
The sexual innuendo is clever. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
You mean longer and longer and the powerful small box?
Barbara Feldon is a little dominatrix!
I've always thought her and Pat Benatar look alike kind of.
I was just thinking that!
who knew! lash primer was a thing back then, huh?
Plus, false eyelashes. :)
Her husband's name was Lucien Verdoux-Feldon
Originally seen in 1965.
Are you sure it's 65 looks like 1983 to me
She was prettier in color.
I really go mad for Blase' Apricot!
When woman were woman's.
First of all, so called "Barbara Feldon" isn't her real name. There was nothing wrong with her actual birth name, Barbara Anne Hall. She obviously "sold out" his birth name because of the shallowness of the entertainment industry?! Most likely the change was made as the result of a greedy Business Manager or Studio, with perceived notions of greater recognition accompanied with monetary gains? Secondly and in reality, it's also shows blatant disrespect for one's parents & their family heritage, just to possibly obtain (not necessarily earn) a greater buck?!
A different motivation to take on a stage name is to act as insulation from the pressures that come with stardom. It is quite enough the attention that beautiful people get. Amplify that by putting your face into everyone's living rooms, and I can readily imaging that the weight of attention you get by stepping out into the public can be crippling. Psuedonyms and stage names are common practice to help protect one's psyche from that, even if only by a little bit. If a person calls her by the name 'Feldon', she instantly knows that it is an outsider. Whereas if she is called by the name she grew up with, there is much greater chance that it is a friend talking to her.
So in that light, one might have counseled her to switch both her first and last names. To help make this contrast even more sharp.
Her face alone must have been quite the double edged sword. What brought me here. And an easy guess... you too.