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Jeannie Out of the Bottle

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A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons

Over the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara Eden. Part pristine Hollywood princess and part classic bombshell, with innocence, strength...more
A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons

Over the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara Eden. Part pristine Hollywood princess and part classic bombshell, with innocence, strength, and comedic talent to spare, Barbara finally lets Jeannie out of her bottle to tell her whole story.

Jeannie Out of the Bottle takes us behind the scenes of I Dream of Jeannie as well as Barbara’s dozens of other stage, movie, television, and live concert performances. We follow her from the hungry years when she was a struggling studio contract player at 20th Century Fox through difficult weeks trying to survive as a chorus girl at Ciro’s Sunset Strip supper club, from a stint as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on live TV to tangling on-screen and off with some of Hollywood’s most desirable leading men, including Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Warren Beatty. From the ups and downs of her relationship with her Jeannie co-star Larry Hagman to a touching meeting with an exquisite and vulnerable Marilyn Monroe at the twilight of her career, readers join Barbara on a thrilling journey through her five decades in Hollywood.

But Barbara’s story is also an intimate and honest memoir of personal tragedy: a stillborn child with her first husband, Michael Ansara; a verbally abusive, drug-addicted second husband; the loss of her beloved mother; and the accidental heroin-induced death of her adult son, just months before his wedding. With candor and poignancy, Barbara reflects on the challenges she has faced, as well as the joys she has experienced and how she has maintained her humor, optimism, and inimitable Jeannie magic throughout the roller-coaster ride of a truly memorable life.

Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including candid family pictures and rare publicity stills, Jeannie Out of the Bottle is a must-have for every fan, old and new.(less)

Hardcover, 288 pages

Published April 5th 2011 by Crown Archetype (first published March 27th 2011)

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May 20, 2012 Debbie rated it 2 of 5 stars

I grew up watching Barbara Eden on "I Dream of Jeannie", and I have followed her career ever since. I expected more from this book.

She has interesting stories to tell, and she does tell them. However - unlike the authors of other biographies and memoirs I have read recently - she seems overly-impressed with herself. She reminds us repeatedly that she was/is a beautiful blonde, and she name-drops a lot. Of course if famous people are a part of your life story, those names need to be mentioned. Bu...more

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May 06, 2012 Helen McKenna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Having always been a fan of I Dream of Jeannie, I was really keen to read Barbara Eden's autobiography. Right from the first page it drew me in and kept me interested through an easy to read writing style and simple language.

It was interesting to read of Barbara's early years in San Fransisco and how her early ambition in life was to be a singer, rather than an actor. You get the sense that she was very well brought up and is a "lady" (in the old-fashioned sense). In fact her life has been fairl...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Needleroozer rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden, and Larry Hagman

Shelves: life-stories, television

This memoir was the first thing I read in 2012. Too bad it was kind of a yawn.

I learned that Larry Hagman was the real diva on the set of I Dream of Jeannie, throwing temper tantrums, getting drunk and stoned during work, even pissing on the set at least once. Other than that, Eden doesn't really share much juicy gossip that I didn't know. What I didn't already know, I didn't much care about.

Yes, yes, the TV censors wouldn't let her show her belly button when she played Jeannie. I already knew t...more

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Nov 07, 2011 Bobbi Woods rated it 2 of 5 stars

Don't laugh! I saw this in the NEW section of the library and couldn't resist--I had a little girl crush on Jeannie/Barbara Eden way back when. I dressed as her for Halloween and saw her in a local production of "Annie Get Your Gun!" Not sure why she didn't mention that in her memoir. I was sitting in an aisle seat in which the actors and actresses walked up and down in between scenes. At one point, I caught her attention and said, "HI JEANNIE!" and she was sweet and said "Hi Sweetie!" back to m...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Nicola rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc, no-longer-own

Reason for Reading: I loved "I Dream of Jeannie" as a kid and really knew nothing else about Barbara Eden, other than the Harper Valley, PTA movie and brief series. I enjoy actor's memoirs from the '70s on back in time and was intrigued to see what Barbara Eden had to say for herself.

Barbara Eden comes off as a very classy, non-Hollywood-type, of lady who has lived a rich and rewarding career, meeting many famous celebrities and enjoying enough success to satisfy herself. She loves to work for t...more

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May 17, 2011 Alan rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Aspiring Tony Nelsons (or Jeannies); seekers after Hollywood dish

Recommended to Alan by: Some weblog or another... I neglected to make note of which one

I must have become a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" pretty early in life, though most likely I did not start watching the show until it went into syndication, years after its original television run—at any rate, I cannot remember when I first saw it. The mixture of science fiction (Major Nelson was an astronaut!) with fantasy, and silliness with sexiness, made an indelible mark on me even as a child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

Later on, I came to connect Barbara Eden's bubbly Jeannie with Eli...more I must have become a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" pretty early in life, though most likely I did not start watching the show until it went into syndication, years after its original television run—at any rate, I cannot remember when I first saw it. The mixture of science fiction (Major Nelson was an astronaut!) with fantasy, and silliness with sexiness, made an indelible mark on me even as a child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

Later on, I came to connect Barbara Eden's bubbly Jeannie with Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of Samantha Stevens in "Bewitched." Both characters are supernaturally powerful women, who voluntarily take subservient roles to men who are neurotic in the extreme, authoritarian at home while being browbeaten by bosses at their work, and, frankly, not worth the trouble. This is a common thread in '60s sitcoms, actually. I see it as a reaction by Hollywood's mostly male hierarchy to the rise of overt feminism in that same decade. You need view no more than the title sequence of the bucolic "Green Acres" for a similar, if more mundane, example.

Eden explicitly dismisses such notions, by the way, claiming that "I Dream of Jeannie" was nothing more than a fantasy, with no intended connection to any real-world policies or events... although she herself notes that a brief experiment with a "stronger" and more assertive Jeannie failed with test audiences.

The prose in Jeannie Out of the Bottle is extremely simple, and conversational in tone. I got the feeling that co-author ("with") Wendy Leigh was working directly from recorded interviews. This is of course not uncommon with Hollywood memoirs, and it is to Eden's credit that her collaborator receives acknowledgement on the cover. The narrative is roughly chronological, though Eden frequently digresses, using the term "Jeannie blink" to indicate when she's going to talk about a different time. This is charming the first few times, but grates mightily after a dozen or so appearances.

Although Eden herself comes across as more than a little prudish, she does share some fairly salacious gossip about the many Hollywood figures (most of them having predeceased her) she met or with whom she's worked over her long career—Elvis Presley; Marilyn Monroe; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Warren Beatty... and of course Larry Hagman and her other costars on "Jeannie." These tidbits are inserted judiciously, at intervals. The effect, which I'm sure is intended, is that if you're just looking for the dirt, you'll keep reading through her other reminiscences to get to it. And those other reminiscences are worth reading... Eden's life has not been an entirely idyllic one, and her perseverance in the face of career setbacks and significant personal tragedy makes for a creditable and, yes, even inspiring story.

A celebrity autobiography like Jeannie Out of the Bottle is not my usual sort of thing, and I must admit I did not think it was wonderful... but if your upbringing included as many of the silly sitcoms of the Sixties as mine did, you'll want to at least pick it up.(less)

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Dec 06, 2011 Michele rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book makes a quick, pleasant read, but it's very shallow. Half of the pages are filled with little more than Eden's name-dropping. Of course that's fine, when she's telling stories about people who truly participated in her life and career (like Sydney Sheldon and Larry Hagman), but when Eden only met Marilyn Monroe for 5 minutes because they shared the same body double, it's hard to justify her decision to spend several pages talking about Ms. Norma Jean, especially since she doesn't even...more This book makes a quick, pleasant read, but it's very shallow. Half of the pages are filled with little more than Eden's name-dropping. Of course that's fine, when she's telling stories about people who truly participated in her life and career (like Sydney Sheldon and Larry Hagman), but when Eden only met Marilyn Monroe for 5 minutes because they shared the same body double, it's hard to justify her decision to spend several pages talking about Ms. Norma Jean, especially since she doesn't even spend 1% as much time discussing her own sister.

If you're going to devote more time to people you once mingled with at a party than to those who influenced and shaped your path and shared your day to day dreams, you aren't going to reveal anything very meaningful about yourself. Eden doesn't.

Her showbiz anecdotes aren't boring, but they aren't hilarious or insightful either. Most of the men she met (Desi, Tom Jones, Warren Beatty) flirted shamelessly with her and she always declined their advances, because she was a self-acclaimed reserved, classy and naive lass. Most of the women she met hated her on sight (Katharine Hepburn, Ann Southern, Lauren Bacall and all of the dancers at Ciro who called her "Miss Virgin" and scoffed that she thought she was better than they were). Around the 50th time, it becomes a little tedious to read how enthralled with or envious of Barbara that everyone was, especially since it's not entirely believable. It's true she had a sweet face, wonderful figure and delightful mannerisms, but she was hardly embued with so much talent that one would believe Lauren Bacall would be scared to take a vacation from "Applause," because she was afraid that Eden would supplant her in the audience's affections.

The I Dream of Jeannie chapters of the book are the most meaty. Certainly fans of the tv show will want to have this in their library. Outside of that cult classic and its actors, it's rather annoying how Eden pads the pages with mini-bios of other celebrities. Most of the background she offers on them is public (or wikipedia) knowledge, not information she's gleaned through personal communications or insight.

Eden mentions that her character Jeannie wasn't real, but was just a figment of Tony Nelson's imagination. I can't speak to the black and white episodes, which are less familiar to me, but I've seen countless reruns from the last 4 years of the show and Jeannie was very real. She was seen by Tony, Roger and many others. Poor Dr. Bellows practically went insane because he witnessed so many of Jeannie's stunts, for which he had no rational explanation. While the show itself may have been a fantasy, within the world of the series, Jeannie was certainly a reality, not an illusion.

Eden leaves her son's losing battle with drugs to the end of the book, which almost makes the tragedy seem like an afterthought. If Matthew's trials had been weaved chronilogically through the narrative, the pain Eden ultimately suffered might have seemed more real. As it is, we don't get a feeling that their relationship was a constant and central part of her life. She tells us how much she loved him, but she also tells us that she married an obnoxious bully who disliked her 10 year old child and caused her to lose custody of him. Why she would enter a marriage that she had doubts about in the first place, knowing that would be the cost, is hard to fathom. It led me to the conclusion that Matthew was not quite the priority in her life that she claimed -- which doesn't make her at all responsible for his drug overdose over 20 years later. It just makes her less sympathetic as the mother left behind.

If you're a fan of sixties tv, add this to your collection. If you want to sink your teeth into a good autobiography, this likely won't have enough substance for you.
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Jul 26, 2011 Katie Christian rated it 1 of 5 stars

Before starting this book, I genuinely liked Barbara Eden. I was, of course, a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" and I had seen her in several other shows and movies, enjoying them all. That said - I was *shocked* by this book. I've probably read a hundred celebrity autobiographies and they're generally very entertaining. The celebs will admit their mistakes and even when talking about their accomplishments it's in a self-depricating way to relate to the reader. This book omits ALL of those principle...more Before starting this book, I genuinely liked Barbara Eden. I was, of course, a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" and I had seen her in several other shows and movies, enjoying them all. That said - I was *shocked* by this book. I've probably read a hundred celebrity autobiographies and they're generally very entertaining. The celebs will admit their mistakes and even when talking about their accomplishments it's in a self-depricating way to relate to the reader. This book omits ALL of those principles. I really can't over-emphasize how shocked I was by this book. Barbara Eden's self-centered side is clearly out of control.
One would think that in an autobiography the author would tell personal stories. She does tell some personal stories, but none about herself. She describes in detail Larry Hagman's tyrannical and drug/alcohol abusive behavior and how the entire crew lived in fear or him. She even names a famous director who was a hermaphrodite, later throwing in how Katherine Hepburn threw herself at Barbara's date, but wouldn't even speak to Barbara. That's right - she thinks Katherine Hepburn was jealous and threatened by her. These stories took a serious backseat to Ms. Eden's perspective of the leading men she's worked with throughout the years. Don't get me wrong here - Barbara Eden was a cute little blonde girl. She was not Raquel Welch. According to this book every single man that Barbara Eden ever worked with wanted to sleep with her, or at least made a pass at her. And she lists them all in great detail. She was MUCH too prim and proper and had much higher morals than everyone else in Hollywood, so she would never have gone out with any of them. Sammy Davis Jr, JFK, Elvis Presley, Red Buttons, Pat Boone, Tommy Lee, even Burl Ives - and many, MANY more - they wall wanted to sleep with Barbara Eden. Even if this were true, how classy of her to list them in this manner. Before she was a 'star', she was hired as a dancer in a club. She admits that she was awful, but the men came there to see cute blondes, so she kept her job. According to Ms. Eden, the other dancers in the show became so jealous that Barbara was getting all the men's attention that one night they locked her in the dressing room so she couldn't perform. Please keep in mind that all of these girls were also hired for their looks. It was hard to read this section because I kept involuntarily rolling my eyes!
There are so little actual honest stories about her life, I wonder if she even had anything to do with writing this book. Her own son died of a heroin overdose and she barely touches on it. If she wasn't prepared to talk about this, she should've said that, or not written the book. She's been married three times, but showing pretty much no respect for her current husband, she repeatedly describes her first husband as the love of her life, and their divorce as the only mistake she ever made.
All-in-all, I wish she hadn't written this book. I much prefer the perception of Barbara Eden that I had before reading her autobiography. I think her Wikipedia entry is more informative and less offensive.(less)

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May 31, 2012 Pam rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have always been a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" and watched it everyday as a little girl. This book was good look inside of the real life of Barbara. The earlier chapters seemed a little too scripted as she made herself look like a real goody-goodie when she talks about how she never gave into the advances of Elvis, Desi, Paul, Sammy, etc....but then some parts were really interesting such as her view on the death of Marilyn Monroe and how Frank Sinatra preferred to the company of men instead o...more

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Apr 10, 2011 David L. rated it 4 of 5 stars

What a great insight to the woman who launched a thousand dreams as the beautiful genie of TV land. Barbara came across as "regular folk" who wasn't aware of how truly gorgeous she really is. I liked her candid stories about what a terror Larry Hagman was on set (a report he confirms was true) and about her ass of a second husband.

My heart really broke for her as she described the horror of having to give birth to a still born baby which she had to carry full term though the baby had died months...more

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Jun 13, 2011 Kathryn W rated it 1 of 5 stars

"Hi, my name is Barbara Eden. Here are all the famous people I met, no mention of anyone else in my life because they haven't been mentioned on TV or in the movies. All the name dropping is about all I'm good for because I say 'no' to just about everything. Oh and by the way you'll only learn about two, possibly three personal incidents in my life, because between jumping from this year, back to that, flash forward to this other year you'll be so confused that you'll want to slam my book closed...more

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May 04, 2011 Linore rated it 4 of 5 stars

This ghost-written memoir is interesting, readable and full of celebrities, but it fails to get to the bottom of who Barbara Eden really is at heart. If there's a "slant" here, it's that Ms. Eden wants to show that she was never a has-been. She details the work she did year by year, including all the B-grade movies, commercials, union events, Las Vegas and more. (Yes, she kept working after "Jeannie"! We get that.)

Oddly, she insists her Jeannie character is nothing like her real self, but she co...more

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May 19, 2011 Marca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoy autobiographies and Barbara’s is no exception. I listened to the book on audio and Barbara is the reader, which made it more enjoyable. She has a distinctive pleasant voice with a tinkling laugh. Everything about her exudes “nice person.” She found her talent as a singer at a young age and was able to make a living in the performing arts all her life; something only a few are able to do. She dishes nicely about some of the personalities she’s worked with and tells some funny stories. Lar...more

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Apr 18, 2011 Louise rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biographies

I grew up watching “I Dream of Jeannie” and was mesmerized by it. I always wanted to be able to cross my arms and blink just like Jeannie. However, try as I might, I was never successful.

Barbara Eden has written a beautiful and honest autobiography. From her work as an actress, to her three marriages, to the death of her beloved son, Matthew, Barbara has spoken openly with honesty and integrity.

She talks about the “hungry years” when she was struggling as a chorus girl; the famous and not so fa...more

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Feb 16, 2013 Jaime rated it 3 of 5 stars

I checked this out from the library because I was and still am a I Dream Of Jeannie fan. It is pretty much a biography of Barbara Eden's life which does mention a lot of her time spent on I Dream Of Jeannie. In all honesty I felt that she was a little in love with herself the way she was constantly going off about how all these men were falling for her and hitting on her all the time,from Elvis to the smallest nobodies. She was and still is a very attractive woman but there is no way every singl...more

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Jun 13, 2012 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars

I just felt really sorry for Barbara Eden, due to the loss of her son to drugs, and then a drug overdose. Even though she had the glittering Hollywood life, she also paid for it, with 3 marriages, and the loss of her only son. When her son was seven, she was pregnant again, and was working hard, traveling across the country with her show, and she lost this unborn child at 8 months. I just felt so badly for her. I hope she is happy now, in her 3rd marriage.
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Sep 08, 2011 Joelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

I loved this series so I was so looking forward to reading this book.I did all I could to get through it. I found Barbara to be very conceited when telling her story.The Jeanie blinking back and forth made me dizzy all that skipping around and not staying within a timeline.All the famous stars that she came in contact with (meaning the men mostly)she wouldn't give the time of day.She gave these super stars the snub really.In my thinking if you had just gone out with the stars for dinner at least...more

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Apr 09, 2011 Lady of the Lake rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, hollywood-star-bio, author-read-audiobook

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Huffman) is a very nice person. Certainly someone who has had her share of tremendous loss and personal pain. This auto-bio is read by Barbara and does what you expect from and auto-bio it tells the story of her life. However there is nothing in this book that makes one say "oh wow! How about that?!?" it's just the story from her childhood thru now... And while she worked with some famous names and did a variety of things she is an actress not a star (her words) Ms. Ed...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Ken rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Jeannie Out of the Bottle was very enjoyable. From the beginning, describing the first day of shooting on I Dream of Jeannie, I could tell this wasn't the typical Hollywood autobiography.

I has all the good stuff and a minimum of the stuff I don't care for. Barbara Eden is and was a grounded professional in her field. I enjoyed hearing her perspective of the industry.

For being the fuel for many teen-aged fantasies, she ended up being much more proper than her appearance. She turned out to be al...more

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May 30, 2011 Christine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads

Anyone over the age of 30 must remember I Dream of Jeannie, and with the popularity of “retro” television channels I am sure Jeannie has a whole new audience in this century as well. Ms. Eden’s autobiography is well told and entertaining. She lets us in on some behind the scenes secrets of the show, she shares her personal triumphs as well as tragedies. Ms. Eden is definitely known for her role as Jeannie, but she had such a wide and varied career that I had not idea about until reading this boo...more

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May 10, 2013 M. L. Wilson rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'll admit right off the bat that I LOVE Barbara Eden. That may invalidate this review - and I do not care.

Eden gives a very frank view into her life, including her divorces and the heartbreaking death of her son. I cannot imagine losing a child and the mere fact that she has been able to pick herself up and move on is a wonder to me.

I enjoyed the stories she told (The one about her running from Desi Arnaz was amusing.) and not having read Larry Hagman's book, I was only vaguely aware of the de...more

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Oct 11, 2011 Bonna Hardy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-finds

I have read quite a few negative reviews on this book. While I can understand this book isn't for everyone. The fact that some people didn't like that she didn't talk more about her sons death or the still born baby. Or talk more about herself in a negative light. I just don't get that. When I talk to people I don't instantly talk about everything bad thats happend in my life. AND I don't mention my shortcomings. I feel like the book was very human. She wasn't into drugs...so her life wasn't as...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Richard rated it 3 of 5 stars

After hearing Dick Van Dyke's bio, Barbara Eden's bio was an appropriate follow up...Both were likeable stars of 60's sitcoms and have had long, if not illustrious, careers. The most interesting parts of this book were her accounts of Larry Hagman being an asshole on the set of "I Dream of Jeannie", her meeting Marilyn Monroe, her still-born birth, the end of her 1st marriage, her disastrous 2nd marriage, and the death of her son at 35 after a life time of drug abuse. Barbara is a survivor and a...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Kate Woods Walker rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm an incredibly forgiving consumer of celebrity autobiographies. Really. Perhaps its because they remind me of my first years as a reader, when I discovered the local Bookmobile and a traveling librarian who let a grade schooler check out Hedy Lamarr's racy autobiography, and more, even more inappropriate, materials.

At any rate, I expect self-serving memory lapses, an avalanche of fudged details and little white lies, and a gauzy overlay of Rebecca-of-Sunnybrook-Farm on even the most debauched...more

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Jan 12, 2012 Kim rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was on vacation and this book was in the hotel lending library. I was intrigued as I was a Jeannie fan as a kid and like biographies. Unfortunately, while a quick fun vacation read? It felt like little more than a run on sentence of name dropping and vignettes about Barbara Eden's power to draw men to her left and right with her sexual magnetism. Her life and encounters are fascinating - don't get me wrong. She has worked hard, been dealt some tremendous blows and is the picture of resilience...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Heidi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: bio-memoir, read-2011

As a child of the 70s, I knew nothing of Barbara Jean Huffman's career prior to her days as Jeannie. This is an interesting look at making it in Hollywood, climbing the ladder one rung at a time. Lots of name-dropping but entirely in context with the story at hand. I liked the "Jeannie-blinks" back in time. According to the story, Barbara resisted the advances of many a leading man. Was very surprised at the descriptions of Larry Hagman but appreciated the fact that she didn't pull any punches w...more

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May 20, 2011 Jamison rated it 4 of 5 stars

fast read. eden tries to be very positive about the people and events in her life, and succeeds for the most part. interestingly enough, her marriage with michael ansara was, for the most part, free of trouble until the last year. (i had heard he was jealous, strong willed, and not very good for her career.)

the cool thing about eden is that, even though she is incredibly beautiful, she made sure to stay away from situations that would compromise her reputation. she had to dodge the advances of t...more

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Mar 29, 2012 Karalyn rated it 2 of 5 stars

I am not sure what I think about this book. I do know that she was way before my time. It appeared that her main focus of the book was dropping all the names of famous people she knew (most I did not recognize) and came in contact with. And from her point of view most famous men she met wanted to have a relationship with her that went beyond friendship. I also was surprised by how she stated that she claimed to like certain people but all she did was share awful stories about them. I don’t feel...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Myssi Whitfield rated it 2 of 5 stars

I liked watching "I Dream of Jeannie" when I was younger, so I thought this book might be interesting. It wasn't. She met a lot of famous people and didn't sleep with a lot of famous people, even though they were all interested. I admire that she worked hard and continued working and doing what she liked. I think if she had written a book about how to "rise above it," I would have enjoyed it more. Now I have to rise above losing a day and a half of my life to this book and admitting to my goodre...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Beth Barkley rated it 2 of 5 stars

As a big fan of I Dream Of Jeannie, I was really interested to hear Barbara Eden's tales of working on the show. Unfortunately I was disappointed in that area, as the majority of her revelations about the show center on Larry Hagman's outrageous behavior. While this is interesting to read, there was a noticeable lack of stories about Barbara herself or even personal insights. The portion on the book dedicated to the show is very small, most of it is simply name-dropping, the men who wanted to sl...more

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