{"id":592416,"date":"2026-09-07T00:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:26:12","slug":"barbara-eden-95-cancels-film-festival-appearance-amid-sudden-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592416\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Eden, 95, cancels film festival appearance amid \u2018sudden illness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Despite Eden\u2019s absence, her former co-star Pat Boone \u2013 who appeared with her in All Hands on Deck in 1961 and The Yellow Canary in 1963 \u2013 continued to honour the actress as was planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">All Hands on Deck screened for fans, with Boone staying on after the film\u2019s showing to sign autographs for fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Eden had been set to receive the Cinecon Legacy Award alongside fellow screen stars Nancy Kwan and Lainie Kazan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">However, her fellow honoree Anna Maria Alberghetti, 90, was also unable to attend in person to collect the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Eden became a household name thanks to her titular role in 60s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, which saw her play a 2000-year-old genie who came out of a bottle found by an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">She also starred in TV shows including How to Marry a Millionaire, as well as films including The Brass Bottle and Flaming Star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Eden\u2019s award honour comes just months after she opened up to Entertainment Weekly about how she was shockingly told by a casting director when she was starting out that she\u2019d never make it because she didn\u2019t have \u201cbig t***\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Eden\u2019s absence, her former co-star Pat Boone \u2013 who appeared with her in All Hands on Deck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[151145,74,534,27605,13485,17517,28721,2516,52636,8142,156,5131,593,3192,111,139,69,8214,24994],"class_list":["post-592416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-151145","tag-after","tag-amid","tag-appearance","tag-barbara","tag-because","tag-cancels","tag-concern","tag-dropping","tag-eden","tag-entertainment","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-illness","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sparked","tag-sudden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}