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Volume 19 Number 5
September 2015
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As ‘Jeannie’ turns 50, star Eden recalls magical days in Cocoa Beach
FEATURES
BY MIKE GAFFEY Fifty years ago this month, actress Barbara Eden emerged in a puff of smoke from a bottle and helped turn the quiet oceanfront town of Cocoa Beach into a pop-culture landmark. Eden, 84, rose to fame as a mischievous, 2,000-year-old genie freed by stranded astronaut Larry Hagman in the NBC television sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” which premiered on Sept. 18, 1965. Set in Cocoa Beach but filmed in California, the hit show ran for five years and 139 episodes, and has been airing on cable and in syndication in the U.S. and abroad for decades. “It’s never been off the air,” Eden said of the show in an Aug. 18 phone interview with Senior Life from Beverly Hills, Calif. “I just got back from Ireland and I was shocked that people knew me there. I get fan mail
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JEANNIE TURNS 50
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SENIOR LIFE Photo Courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Barbara Eden played a genie living on Cocoa Beach with astronaut Larry Hagman in the hit television show “I Dream of Jeannie,” which premiered 50 years ago this month.
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