Barbara Eden’s Jeannie memoir will appear next year
For the five seasons that she starred on the classic television comedy I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden could conjure up anything from valuable artwork to an elephant with a nod and a blink.
So why did it take her four decades since the series ended its run to write a memoir about her life and career?
“Quite frankly, it scared the Dickens out of me,” Ms. Eden said in a telephone interview. “I was quite frightened of doing this. I’ve been asked several times, and it’s daunting to talk about yourself. It gets to the soft spots inside you.”
Yesterday, the Crown Archetype imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing division said that it would release a memoir by Ms. Eden, called “Jeannie Out of the Bottle,” in the spring of 2011.
As its title implies, the book will have its share to say about I Dream of Jeannie, on which Ms. Eden played the mystically empowered title character from 1965 to 1970. “She’ll have a big voice in this story,” Ms. Eden said, “but a lot went on before Jeannie.”
So why did it take her four decades since the series ended its run to write a memoir about her life and career?“Quite frankly, it scared the Dickens out of me,” Ms. Eden said in a telephone interview. “I was quite frightened of doing this. I’ve been asked several times, and it’s daunting to talk about yourself. It gets to the soft spots inside you.”
Yesterday, the Crown Archetype imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing division said that it would release a memoir by Ms. Eden, called “Jeannie Out of the Bottle,” in the spring of 2011.
As its title implies, the book will have its share to say about I Dream of Jeannie, on which Ms. Eden played the mystically empowered title character from 1965 to 1970. “She’ll have a big voice in this story,” Ms. Eden said, “but a lot went on before Jeannie.”
More on Ms. Eden can be found at ArtsBeat.
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