Barbara Eden was simply 15 years previous when she made the choice to forgo conventional education and pursue a profession in present enterprise, utilizing her vocals because the launching pad for what would flip right into a profession that’s nonetheless going robust after practically 80 years.
“I never had a high school girlhood. I never had a best friend, I didn’t go to dances, I didn’t go steady. I didn’t date until I was 16 1/2. I was always Miss Self-Improvement,” she advised TV Guide Magazine in 1966. “I learned about makeup, hairstyles, clothes, all the externals. I poured myself into my studies. Along the way I developed the personal philosophy I still believe in — there is always tomorrow, but don’t louse up today for tomorrow.”
And that she wouldn’t. Eden turned an completed star shortly, acting on The Johnny Carson Show and starring within the 1957 TV adaptation of How to Marry a Millionaire. She additionally had quite a few movies on her resumé, together with starring reverse Elvis Presley in 1960’s Flaming Star, earlier than she landed the a part of the candy and charming Jeannie within the beloved I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70).