GREAT FEMALE SINGERS: Barbara Eden

Here are several songs performed by the very glamorous Barbara Eden.

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead in 1931) 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.

She was then elected Miss San Francisco, in 1951.

Eden made featured appearances on television shows such as The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, The West Point story, Highway patrol, Private secretary, I love Lucy, The millionaire, Target: The corruptors!, Crossroads, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, December bride, Bachelor father, Father knows best, Adventures in paradise, The Andy Griffith Show, Cain's hundred, Saints and sinners, The Virginian, Slattery's people, The rogues, and the series finale of Route 66 playing the role of Margo.

She was an uncredited extra in the movie The tarnished angels with Rock Hudson, in partnership with 20th Century Fox studios. She then starred in the syndicated comedy TV series How to marry a millionaire. The show was based on the film of the same name.

Discovery in the Hollywood sense came when she starred in a play with James Drury. Film director Mark Robson, who later directed her in the movie From the terrace, had come to the play and wanted her for 20th Century Fox studios. Her screen test was the Joanne Woodward role in No down payment. Though she did not get the role, the studio gave her a contract.

Eden then became a leading lady in films and starred opposite Gary Crosby, Barry Coe, and Sal Mineo in A private's affair, and had a co-starring role in Flaming star (1960), with Elvis Presley.

The following year, she played in a supporting role as Lt. Cathy Connors in Irwin Allen's Voyage to the bottom of the sea. She starred in The wonderful world of the brothers Grimm, a George Pal-directed Cinerama film for MGM, and another Irwin Allen production for 20th Century Fox, Five weeks in a balloon (1962).

Then she signed to play Jeannie, a genie in a bottle rescued by an astronaut in the television sitcom I dream of Jeannie. She played this role for five years and 139 episodes.

Eden has starred in such musical comedies as The sound of music, Annie get your gun, South Pacific with Robert Goulet, The pajama game, and Gentlemen prefer blondes playing Lorelei Lee. She has been a musical guest star in many variety television shows, including 21 Bob Hope specials, The Carol Burnett Show, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, This is Tom Jones Show.

She released an album entitled Miss Barbara Eden in 1967, for the record label Dot Records.

She received an honorary Doctor of laws degree in the spring of 1990 from the University of West Los Angeles School of law. On November 17, 1988, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sidewalk for her contributions to television at 2003 Hollywood Boulevard.

In March 2006, Eden reunited with her former co-star Larry Hagman for a publicity tour in New York City to promote the first-season DVD of I dream of Jeannie. They appeared together on such shows as Good morning America, The view, Martha, Access Hollywood, Entertainment tonight, and Showbiz tonight.

In March 2006, Hagman and Eden also reunited, this time onstage in New York, for Love letters at the College of Staten Island and at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. This was Eden's first visit to the Academy since appearing in The West Point story in 1956.

In May 2013, Eden appeared with former American President Bill Clinton, Sir Elton John, and Fergie at the opening ceremony of the 21st Life Ball in Vienna, where Eden wore her famous Jeannie harem costume.

Enjoy Barbara Eden’s beauty!