Barbara Eden Net Worth

Barbara Eden's Quotes

• I don't know what I am doing from one moment to the next. I like that not knowing because it's always a surprise. You don't know what's around the corner, you know what role am I going to play next and who am I going to be working with. It's like opening a present.
• I played the Marilyn Monroe role of "Loco" in How to Marry a Millionaire (1957), though I didn't consider myself as that kind of actress, I approached the role more as a character.
• Every New Year's I resolve to have a better year than I had before.
• If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.
• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

Interesting Facts about Barbara Eden

1. The presence of her belly-button on I Dream of Jeannie (1965) was a non-issue until its existence was questioned, playfully, by columnist Mike Connolly. When Laugh-In (1967) producer George Schlatter decided to premiere it on his show, NBC issued a "No Navel Edict".
2. Her parents divorced when she was three and her mother Alice later married Harrison Connor Huffman.
3. Although she was born Barbara Jean Morehead, she took her stepfather's last name of Huffman when her mother Alice remarried.
4. In addition to playing Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie (1965), she also played Jeannie's "evil twin" sister, Jeannie II. The two were opposite in every conceivable respect, from personality (good/evil) to hair color (blonde/black).
5. Her mother, Alice Huffman, was born on August 13, 1915. Barbara and her mother were very close. After her mother developed lung cancer, Barbara took care of her until she died on November 14, 1986 at 71.
6. Son was Matthew Ansara (b. 29 August 1965 - d. 25 June 2001).
7. Graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, CA, in 1949.
8. 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".
9. On Monday, June 25, 2001, her son Matthew Ansara (with first husband Michael Ansara) died of an accidental drug overdose. He was 35. His body was found in his car in a parking lot off a freeway in Los Angeles, California.
10. Barbara's last name was changed from "Huffman" to "Eden" by her first agent.
11. She was inducted into the California Broadcasting Hall of Fame in a special ceremony July 18, 2003.
12. She did a screen test in May, 1960 for State Fair (1962).
13. She had a nightclub act for a while after I Dream of Jeannie (1965). She was actually a talented singer, and she performed various kinds of songs in her act.
14. Gene Schwam is her friend and manager.
15. Aunt of Katherine Fugate. Barbara is godmother of Katherine's daughter, Madeleine Barbara Fugate.
16. Has a younger sister, Alison Scanlon, who is 12 years younger.
17. Ex-mother-in-law of Julie Ansara.
18. She and third husband Jon Eicholtz were married in 1991 in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral Church, which Barbara attended as a child.
19. 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 enrolled her in singing classes.
20. Miss San Francisco of 1951.