{"id":166426,"date":"2025-09-18T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:27:07","slug":"i-dream-of-jeannies-barbara-eden-recalls-hilarious-on-set-mishap-amid-shows-60th-anniversary-i-screamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166426\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dream of Jeannie\u2019s Barbara Eden Recalls Hilarious On-Set Mishap Amid Show\u2019s 60th Anniversary: \u2018I Screamed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara Eden was once trapped in a genie bottle \u2014 in real life.<\/p>\n

The former I Dream of Jeannie star, 94, spoke to People<\/a> in an article published on Thursday, September 18 \u2014 the same day the beloved sitcom marks its 60th anniversary<\/a> \u2014 and shared one moment from filming that she was not too fond of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the only time, and it was when the crew and Larry [Hagman] and the whole cast left me in the bottle at lunchtime and I was starving,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get out of the bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had done the scene in the bottle, but I couldn\u2019t get in or out of it. There was no ladder, and I yelled and I screamed,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

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\ufffdBeitia Archives \/ Digital Press Photos\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/p>\n

However, this wasn\u2019t the only time the actress got trapped somewhere on set.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut everything else was always comfortable. No, well, I was stuck in the safe. That wasn\u2019t comfortable,\u201d Eden remarked, seemingly referring to the four-part episode arc from season three, where her character was locked in a safe.<\/p>\n

Eden starred as Jeannie in the hit series from 1965 to 1970 and told People it was \u201ca huge blessing\u201d to be known for her iconic character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara Eden was once trapped in a genie bottle \u2014 in real life. The former I Dream of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[48659,236,71970,88,48660],"class_list":["post-166426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-barbara-eden","tag-celebrities","tag-digital-press","tag-entertainment","tag-i-dream-of-jeannie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}