Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is an American film, stage, and television actress, comedian, and singer. She is known for her starring role of Jeannie in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead on August 23, 1931, in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of Alice Mary and Hubert Henry Morehead, although for decades, her year of birth was thought to be 1934. Her parents divorced when she was three her mother, Alice, and she moved to San Francisco, where later her mother married Harrison Connor Huffman, a telephone lineman. The Great Depression deeply affected the Huffman family, and as they were unable to afford many luxuries, Barbaras mother entertained the children by singing songs. This musical background left a lasting impression on Eden, who began taking acting classes because she felt it might help her improve her singing.

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