Barbara Eden | Conversations with Maria Menounos | August 9, 2013
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- In this episode, Extra host Maria Menounos sits down with Hollywood legend Barbara Eden. Barbara Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead 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, California. Eden is most indelibly associated with her role as the genie in the bottle in the long-running sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965), co-starring Larry Hagman. In "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965), Major Anthony Nelson (Hagman) is a NASA astronaut who finds a decorative black bottle on a desert island after he splashes down in the ocean. The bottle has a beautiful blond genie in it (Eden), who immediately assumes that Nelson is her master. He brings her home to live in Cocoa Beach, Florida. In each episode, the forbidden use of Jeannie's well-meaning mystical powers alters reality in some wacky way that must be carefully explained away by Nelson. No other person knows of Jeannie's existence except for Nelson's bumbling friend, Major Roger Healey. Together, they conspire to keep her secret from everyone else, especially from Nelson's commanding officers at NASA. The sitcom gained a cult following, and Eden still appears from time to time in commercials and cameos that poke gentle fun at her former role. Before focusing on a television career, Eden had parts in a series of unremarkable films in the 1950s and 1960s. Her first film role was in Back from Eternity (1956). In 1957, she starred on television in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1957) and after "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965)'s successful five year run from 1965 to 1970, she starred in "Harper Valley P.T.A." (1981) (1981-82). She published her autobiography, Barbara Eden: My Story, in October 1986. In 1997, Columbia announced plans to produce a big-screen episode of "I Dream of Jeannie". Eden was slated to make a cameo appearance as the new Jeannie's aunt. The film, originally scheduled for 1998, has not yet been produced. Eden married first husband Michael Ansara in 1958 and divorced him in 1972. The couple had a son, Matthew Ansara, born August 29, 1965. She married Charles Donald Fegert on September 3, 1977, and divorced him in 1983. She married her current husband, Jon Eicholtz, in January 1991.
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Such a beautiful woman inside as well as outside... I ve been in love with Barbara all my life.
Barbara still looks great,I was glued to the t.v as a kid she was so pretty.
I love Barbara Eden I want to meet her,she is the kind of people that you can hear all day and you never get bored 😍
Ana Brand how u meet her??
Ana Brand o want too meet
Ana Brand I mis read my bad
So adorable Barbara
Barbara is the most beautiful woman in history...
Her personality makes her even more beautiful.
Umm...maybe t.v. history.
Yep X1000000000
Agreed
She was and still is very pretty!
I've Always Loved Ms. Barbara Eden, Especially " I Dream Of Jeanne " 🍾TV Show. She Had An Amazing Life & I Love Her Story ❤️💯💪♥️😍
I really enjoyed your interview with Barbara Eden. She was delightful to watch in "I dream of Jeannie" when I was a teenager. She still makes me smile and laugh. I am so glad that her show was on TV when I was growing up. She is pure sunshine!
When I met Barbara Eden at comic con covention on 33rd st Manhattan it was a great experience and especially taking the picture with her.
I think this is the best interview Maria has ever had. Barbara Eden is a wealth of knowledge on Hollywood history and met the most iconic actors of our time (Katherine Hepburn, Lucy, Johnny Carson, Paul Newman, Elvis Presley, etc). Such an interesting interview. Good job.
Barbra Eden is a beautiful genuine person, thank you 🎵 💐
She is stunning at the age of 84,i love Barbara
Barbara is so sweet and graceful. It takes class and tact not to take the feminist bait when she's asked leading questions over and over trying to get her to bash men. She is too smart and too considerate. She's always been a beautiful woman inside and out.
i love maria's genuine appreciation for barbra's talent and contribution
She looks great
Hearing Barbara Eden saying "tits' was very amusing haha. In all honesty, I could listen to this woman talk all day and night and never get bored.
One of my favorites . She was always so beautiful
I may be 7 years late, but this is one of the best Interviews I've watched with Mrs Barbara Eden. I absolutely cherish her and her accomplishments that aren't normally spoken about. She's seen the industry through its golden years and evolution to today. The classiest, elegant, and one of the - if not THE most beautiful woman/actress to ever come out of Hollywood.
I think this is my favorite episode...Barbara is an amazing woman and actor. She was a part of my childhood as Jeannie. I'm glad your viewers got to see the strong, beautiful and enduring Mrs. Eden...she still inspires and makes my heart skip a beat.
It is perfectly fine to talk to yourself Barbara, makes one that much wiser
HAPPY 84TH BIRTHDAY BARBARA EDEN !!!!!
I just love Barbara eden!! After this interview that I literally just found I love her even More!!! She’s beautiful and inwardly even more beautiful!!😘
82 years of age here and still beautiful ! Amazing genetic beauty !
True..most beautiful lady..
Wow -- even at age 83, she is still GORGEOUS -- what an amazing woman!
What an incredible journey of Barbara Eden. Great interview.
I agree, the most beautiful woman actress ever, same with her personality
No matter how much time passes, Barbara always makes my heart skip a beat.
You should see a cardiologist.
I wish she talked more about Michael, you can tell the interviewer wanted her to too. What Barbara wrote about him in the book was so beautiful and touching.
I am absolutely in love with Michael Ansara! He was so absolutely handsome! Barbara Eden should have stayed married to him!
BE - most beautiful woman in history! I absolutely loved her, from my age 13 till now.
the definition of class and beauty.
I used to watch reruns of i dream of jeannie in the mid 80s whenever the show was on but could never catch every episode. Now that i was able to get a hold of the entire show , i watched all 139 episodes in less than 3 weeks and never regretted 1 second of the time i spent watching it. Barbara is such a darling in the show. All the other actors were great as well but Jeannie carried the show. Even after she married major Nelson the show was still awesome, imean at 1 point they had to get married given how they loved each orher but could never freely express it, maybe out of shyness on major Nelson's part but i'm glad they eventually tied the knot, it was a premise for doing the show a bit differently from that point on and in the 15 episodes that the show ran with them being married, that premiae showed, you could as a viewer could tell it was done slightly different now that their mutual feelings were out in the open while still keeping Jeannie's secret. It was a bad move on the network executives to insist on Jeannie and major Nelson to get married only to cancel the show afterwards. I wish I dream of Jeannie could have gotten at least 10 seasons, the chemistry between Jeannie and major Nelson and the rest of the actors was so wonderful not to mention the trouble she would always get Tony in. There are shows nowadays that i would get tired of watching after one season or maybe half a season but not such a show like i dream of jeannie.
I watched a few episodes of Bewitched, but it never managed to keep me glued to the screen like Jeannie did and they are fairly similar.
What an adorable woman had a crush on her when she showed up on dream of jeanie in that harem outfit and still do to this day what a sweet woman
🔴 Happy 90th Birthday, Barbara❗
What a doll
I love Barbara Eden! No one will be able to replace her because she is unique!
I agree with Maria Menunos, Barbara Eden is the most beautiful ❤️ woman in history.
i love her
I have always loved Barbara Eden--- I remember wearing "I Dream of Jeannie" pajamas and jumping on my bed to imitate her. I still have my IDOJ lunchbox from elementary school too. What an enchanting lady--- Maria did a great job of being a disarming interviewer and bringing out the best of Barbara.
Beautiful through and through.
I have seen many interviews with Barbara Eden over the years and this is top of the heap. Very very well done!
aww yay ❤️
You will always be beautiful to me Barbara ❤💛💙
I got to spend 4 hours sitting next to Barbara on a plane and she is every bit as genuine and nice in real life as she appears here.
Great intervIew! So many great stories. I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Bacall just a year or two out of college and she was very nice to me (she just didn't care for her limo driver at the time). Also, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and her companion, Maurice, and she was very pleasant, too. Would be so cool to be ab!e to meet Barbara Eden. You have a great job being able to interview everyone but you did a nice job here. Keep up the good work! 😇
nice interview
On another note, Maria Menounos is a great interviewer on her TH-cam show. Way better here than on Extra.
Thank you Maria, I enjoyed the show very much, you showed how sweet and lovely Barbara is, she is brilliant. Thank you to you both.
I loved watching l Dream of Jeannie and I still do, the whole cast was just really good there was not one character that I didn't like everybody just did their part so perfectly, thank you Barbara Eden for doing I Dream of Jeannie, I love your honesty👍💌
Beautiful Barbara 🌷🧡💕
I love this woman!!!❤️🎀❤️ idoj is one of my FAVORITE shows EVER an I’m 28 I’ve seen all 139 episodes over and over again and still get a kick outta each one… GREAT INTERVIEW!! I wonder who she had in mind to play the new Jeannie??
Nice interview.
I had a crush on Barbara and Dawn Wells when I was a kid now I'm 60 and I still have a crush, what a beautiful woman
sweet person
Thanks Your doing a great job, Maria. Keep up the excellent work. Peace I'm Out. One Love
Jeannie 🥰✨
Always a beautiful person and so classy. A real lady!!!
There will never be a woman of her beauty, morality, and steadfast care for her fans.
I knew she was special the first time I saw her. She is to me something beyond just a human being. A angle or a goddess, or something. Who else could have survived a Hollywood career untarnished?
She is so Beautiful!🌸
great; be has always been special.
Barbara Eden is such a beautiful, intelligent, witty and classy woman. I've always enjoyed watching her shows and movies.🌹
Barbara Eden will be forever every guys dream girl. She is so beautiful. A woman with a lot of class.
I have adored Barbara Eden since watching her as a child.She's as beautiful today as she ever was.
Thank you for sharing this and thanks for such an in-depth interview I really enjoyed this thank you I love hearing the Back stories of Hollywood from a female perspective 🎥⭐🎬✨⭐
She’s the most beautiful actress, I agree!
Angelic !
barbera is definately sharp.. full
of spirit.. mischieviously rascal in
a brilliant way.. she loans us her
eyes,insight .. generous to maria
They do not make them like that any more. Elizabeth Montgomery two wonderful people and shows.
She is so beautiful inside and out. Her eyes are stunning and her makeup is timeless. I watched I dreamed of Jeannie as often as I could when I was a kid. I wanted to be Jeannie. I'd go around crossing my arms and blinking trying to make things happen.
I wonder if she was always cold on set wearing her Jeannie costume?
It's not hard to have "self-esteem" if you're a full-time mother and wife. It takes a lot of work. I'm glad my mother was a stay at home mom.
Keep up the good work, Maria❤️
Ms. Eden is being very golden age gracious with Maria's ranting here. It doesn't matter about the classes, this thing called charisma. Either you have it or you don't. Can't be taught or manufactured. Marilyn Monroe was the template . Jane Russell, Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Lee Remick and even Betty Page. Whoever you thought the bombshell was. They were handled , predictable, and therefore expected to return favors at the pool or the couch. Barbara was different in spite of the torrential jealousy. The camera loved her. She fancied herself a comedienne .But Barbara had charisma. More than she admitted here. It was easier for a comedic actor to do drama than the other way around. " A Howling in the Woods" and "A stranger Within" proved her range for A list features. Her energy was high octane neutral as is her candor and her ability to keep her legs closed against the hounds. She could be in the scene just standing there doing nothing and you couldn't take your eyes off her. Or she could own the scene bouncing off the walls , not to upstage, but to fit the full texture of her character. Other actresses were created by committee and had to work at...beauty. She had to tone it down and never bought her own hype. Barbara and Longevity make a great team.
Love this 💞
Eternamente agradecido de tantos momentos de felicidad en mi ninez y adolescencia junto a Larry .H .
Por siempre bella ,Jennie❤❤⚘⚘🇨🇱
Barbra I’m 39 I was born in 80 I’ve watched u my whole life. Ur are gorgeous!
shes still hot!
Excellent 💗
Barbara’s haircut is pretty.
You nailed it Maria. Eden has been described her entire career as beautiful, etc - but I never heard anyone else frame it as you did. Eden was categorically THE most beautiful woman of her era, and before and since in Hollywood.
Of course many others are right there maybe 1/4 notch below Eden. But for the male viewer she literally had it all - incredible eyes, scorching hot body on a petite frame, and she had this way of electric facial expressions that simply lit up the screen.
I was a kid when her signature vehicle Dream of Jeanie was on 1st run. I put her ahead of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Marlo Thomas, Rita Moreno, Suzanne Pleshette, Beverly Garland - one hottie after another who didn't quite match Eden's absolute physical appeal.
And the interviews such as your's posted of her on YT, bring her across as an unassuming, normal person. Not like a Diva at all.
She grew up fairly poor in San Francisco, paid a lot of dues to make it big, and it seems like she's never forgotten her roots.
Balkingpoints she was my childhood crush with Dawn Wells from Gilligan’s Island and Lynda Carter later on 😍. Couldn’t have worded it better 👍🏾!
I think maria tried to related to Barbara . I don't know there is something off about the way she interviews . Barbara Eden is just gorgeous . I am just learning about her life. I grew up watching the show but didn't know much about her personal life . Beautiful women inside and out
THANKS MARIA 🤗🤗YOU ARE SO ELEGANT AS MUCH AS BARBARA
BILL CLINTON ?????? WTF, she sure is full of surprises
Two beautiful women...😊😊
If Barbra would have revealed who she thought she'd like to play her as Jeannie in a movie... I think she might have suggested Reese Witherspoon.
Barbara is and has been the bar set high for the others to try and rise up to be.
Yes exactly
IS Barb [ 8 4 ] here? OH MY GOD!
Sounds like the Studio Club was similar to the Barberzon in New York...
My daughter looks so much like Maria, uncanny
I always thought the sparkly stuff on dresses was called sequence.
Jeannie cast a spell on me to see Maria every time I fill up at the Mobil.watching GSTV on the gas pump
All women entering any workforce need to watch this and take notes
I love this. It is odd to hear this, because my grandmother knew Ann Sothern (during her overweight years) and they got along famously, and my mother went to school with Tisha Sterling, and they got along famously.
I know what you mean. Ive always heard nice things about Southern. During her TV show (and through most of the 50s) Southern was quite ill with Hepatitis and very insecure about her weight and had to be carefully filmed to camouflage. To have a young knockout like Eden arrive on the set to do a scene with her must have been frustrating. Maybe Eden just worked with her on a bad day when Southern was not feeling well.
Sorry I meant SOTHERN.
Yes, my grandmother made reference to her weight. I did bother her. They would shop together, and my grandmother always picked out the prettiest dresses for her.
Wow,what great stories you must have. People sometimes forget what a stunning beauty Sothern was. I like Tisha as well. I get the feeling that Ann was a very good mother.
The idea that this gorgeous woman was called "ugly" by some producer.... he must have been blind...
Barbara Eden is gorgeous.
Barbara Eden is much more attractive then she gives her self credit fore. I have always thought Barbara is a drop dead gorgeous famous women "in" Hollywood.
She is pushing 80 what did you expect? For her to appear the same as she did 50 years ago?
8 4
I know right some people are dumb
56:34 ''Caught _yielding_ a knife at the nuns.'' Really, Maria ?
'' *wielding* ''
😔
It so sad how that guy at the end of this video was so desparate to go on camera. That is showing so much disrespect to this Maria Menounos show. You would never see anyone from behind the camera just pop out at any point of a professional show. He probably wanted to force himself on camera so he could tell his friends watch me next to Barbara at the end. How vile !!! Even Maria shoots him a look at the very end as if saying get the HELL OFF CAMERA !!!! when he saw her anger he moved off camera.
Her son went completely insane. It's too bad; so sad.