Trivia

She had a nightclub act for a while after Mi bella genio (1965). She was actually a talented singer, and she performed various kinds of songs in her act.

Shortly after shooting began on the pilot episode for Mi bella genio (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".

As of the passing of Bill Daily on September 4, 2018, she is the last surviving regular cast member of Mi bella genio (1965).

Her mother, Alice Huffman, was born on August 13, 1915. Barbara and her mother were very close. Her mother was age 16 when she had her. After her mother developed lung cancer, Barbara took care of her until she passed away on November 14, 1986 at age 71.

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.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7003 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 17, 1998.

In recent years, Barbara said about fellow Mi bella genio (1965) star Larry Hagman that never before or since did she work with an actor that she had such a connection and rhythm with. There was an effortlessness acting with him that she never had with anyone else.

Miss San Francisco of 1951.

Barbara's last name was changed from "Huffman" to "Eden" by her first agent.

When she was seven months pregnant with her second baby she found out it wasn't alive. She had to carry the baby six more weeks until it was delivered stillborn.

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.

Appeared at the 2013 Life Ball in Vienna wearing her Mi bella genio (1965) outfit--and this time she was allowed to show her belly button.

She was inducted into the California Broadcasting Hall of Fame in a special ceremony on July 18, 2003.

In addition to playing Jeannie on Mi bella genio (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).

Owns a chocolate Labradoodle named Djinn-Djinn (named after Jeannie's dog on Mi bella genio (1965)).

The presence of her belly-button on Mi bella genio (1965) was a non-issue until its existence was questioned, playfully, by columnist Mike Connolly. When Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967) producer George Schlatter decided to premiere it on his show, NBC issued a "No Navel Edict".

She and third husband Jon Eicholtz were married in 1991 in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral Church, which Barbara attended as a child.

Although she was born Barbara Jean Morehead, she took her stepfather's last name of Huffman when her mother Alice remarried.

Her parents divorced when she was three and her mother Alice later married Harrison Connor Huffman.

Although she was born Barbara Jean Morehead, she began using the name Barbara Jean Huffman in 1945 and then became Barbara Eden in 1956.

Attended and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, CA (1949).

Her parents, Hubert Henry Morehead and Mary Alice/Alice Mary (Franklin) were married in Santa Cruz County, AZ on January 31, 1931.

Son was Matthew Ansara (b. 29 August 1965 - d. 25 June 2001).

Has a younger sister, Alison Scanlon, who is 12 years younger.

After five enjoyable years with Larry Hagman on "I Dream of Jeannie", the two reunited in the 1971 "A Howling in the Woods", a pleasantly light horror movie.

She had done a screen test in May 1960 for Amores de un día (1962).

Gene Schwam is her friend and manager.

Aunt of Katherine Fugate. Barbara is godmother of Katherine's daughter, Madeleine Barbara Fugate.

Ex-mother-in-law of Julie Ansara.

Even though her birthday is on August 23, her star sign is Leo 29°.