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Barbara Eden
Birth Name
Barbara Jean Moorehead
D.O.B.
August 23, 1934 Tucson, Arizona

Height
5' 3¾" (1.62 m)

Measurements: 36B/C-24-36 Personal Quote:
"If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen."

Jeff's Favorite Jeannie-ology:
Her miniature and invisible attack dog "Jin-Jin"

Born Barbara Jean Moorhead, in 1934, 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 TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965)

Of Interest:

  • She was not allowed to show her belly button on "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965) because of NBC's "No Navel Edict".
  • Shortly after shooting began on the pilot episode for "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965), it was learned that she was pregnant. Director Gene Nelson invented a shot he playfully called the "ATB" ("Above the Baby"). "Sometimes," he stated, "We'd have to follow Jeannie's arm across the room".
  • After "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965) she had a nightclub act for a while. She was actually a talented singer, and she performed various kinds of songs in her act.
  • She's directly descended from American founding father Benjamin Franklin.
  • As a child, she had to wear glasses, an eye patch and pigtails. Because of this, she became very shy. To help overcome her shyness, her mother had Barbara get singing lessons.
  • Miss San Francisco of 1951.
  • Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  • Info Source: www.imdb.com