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Suppose and blink!
The long-lasting Sixties sitcom I Dream of Jeannie aired for 5 consecutive seasons on NBC, incomes two Golden Globe Award nominations and an Emmy nod in its time. The collection adopted the two,000-year-old genie Jeannie, performed by Barbara Eden, who’s found on a abandoned island within the South Pacific by astronaut Main Anthony Nelson, performed by Larry Hagman. Nelson takes Jeannie again to the USA, the place they finally fall in love and get married.
Jeannie’s teeny personalised touring vessel that she would magically shrink herself into by blinking will without end be emblematic. In 2001, Eden gave PEOPLE an unique dwelling tour, which included her assortment of genie bottles.
“That is the unique genie bottle,” Eden mentioned whereas showcasing the one-of-a-kind purple-and-gold bottle from the sitcom. “It is not often right here. I maintain it within the financial institution. It has a couple of nicks. It has been round some time. It is bought a chip there and a chip there, however it’s the actual factor.”
Right here, meet up with the celebs of the collection.
Barbara Eden as Jeannie
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Barbara Eden’s TV debut came about in 1955 on The Johnny Carson Present. From there she went on to make appearances on I Love Lucy (1951), Father Is aware of Finest (1954) and The Andy Griffith Present (1960), simply to call a couple of. In 1965, Eden starred in NBC’s fantasy sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie for 5 consecutive seasons. Between 1965 and 1970, the long-lasting actress obtained two Golden Globe nominations for greatest TV actress — comedy or musical and greatest TV star — feminine.
Eden married her third husband, actual property developer and architect Jon Eicholtz, in 1991. The pair dwell in Beverly Hills and have been married for greater than 30 years.
The actress instructed PEOPLE in 2019 that she thought a reboot of the magical Sixties sitcom was “a good suggestion. They need to do it.”
“I am actually fortunate,” she instructed PEOPLE in October 2021. “I’ve expensive pals. I’ve an exquisite household, a really supportive husband. Sure, I am very comfortable.”
Eden celebrated her 93rd birthday in August, telling PEOPLE her secrets and techniques to staying match embody figuring out and maintaining a healthy diet.
Larry Hagman as Main Anthony Nelson
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Larry Hagman performed the dashing astronaut Main Anthony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie from 1965 to 1970. He famously went on to play the merciless oil baron J.R. Ewing on the CBS primetime cleaning soap Dallas (1978-1991).
Performing ran in Hagman’s genes: His mom Mary Martin was a Broadway star, enjoying Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. His kids with spouse Maj Axelsson, Heidi and Preston, continued within the household enterprise.
In 2011, Hagman introduced he was recognized with stage 2 throat most cancers, 15 years after a liver transplant process. Nevertheless, his analysis didn’t forestall him from taking part within the TNT reboot of Dallas within the early 2010s.
Hagman died on Nov. 23, 2012, at age 81.
Invoice Each day as Captain Roger Healey
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Invoice Each day discovered breakthrough success in his position as Military Captain Roger Healey, which launched him into his subsequent position as an airline co-pilot and neighbor of the Newharts, Howard Borden, on The Bob Newhart Present (1972).
On the NBC sitcom ALF (1986) Each day performed the psychiatrist Dr. Larry Dykstra earlier than occurring to have a short-lived sitcom of his personal, Small & Frye (1983).
The actor turned an occasional panelist on CBS’s recreation present Match Recreation and utilized his private love for magic to 3 TV specials referred to as Each day’s Hocus-Pocus Gang, which launched younger magicians to the craft.
Each day died in 2018 from pure causes, days after celebrating his 91st birthday.
Hayden Rorke as Dr. Bellows
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Hayden Rorke took his stage title from his mom, Margaret Hayden Rorke, an early Twenties actress. Rorke appeared in I Love Lucy (1951), The Twilight Zone (1961), The Andy Griffith Present (1965) and The Love Boat (1977), amongst different hit reveals.
Nevertheless, Rorke’s greatest acknowledged position was because the NASA medical officer, Dr. Bellows, in I Dream of Jeannie. Rorke’s final movie was CBS’s TV reunion film I Dream of Jeannie… Fifteen Years Later (1985).
Rorke died in 1987 on the age of 76 from a number of myeloma.
Emmaline Henry as Amanda Bellows
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Emmaline Henry is greatest identified for her position because the spouse of Dr. Bellows, Amanda Bellows, in I Dream of Jeannie. Her first look on the present was as a magician’s assistant within the first season. Henry then continued on the collection for 33 episodes as Amanda Bellows till the ultimate season aired in 1970.
She can also be identified for her appearances in Rosemary’s Child (1968) and I am Dickens, He is Fenster (1962). Henry married actor Mark Roberts in 1969 earlier than divorcing in 1974.
Henry died of a mind tumor at age 50 in 1979.