Sixties television icon Barbara Eden may have grown up in San Francisco before taking her career to Hollywood, but the 91-year-old actress still views her native Tucson with much fondness.
“I was born there but my family left when I was around 3,” Eden recalled from her home in Los Angeles. “I remember our house was right next door to an empty lot with a horse on it, but that’s about all. Then we moved to El Paso, Texas, to live with my grandma and grandpa, and my mother remarried before we relocated to California. I love San Francisco, but I’ve always felt Tucson was my home and have been back over the years. Even as a little girl growing up, I knew that’s where I was from.
“I’ll be interviewed on stage, show clips of my film and TV career, and take lots of audience questions,” Eden explained. And while some actors who became closely associated with one standout role occasionally distanced themselves from that character, Eden never did. “I was under contract to 20th Century Fox and we were on tour promoting the show,” she explained. “One of the stops was at a theater in Tucson. In fact, I was there more recently, and the theater manager had a photo of the three of us that was still in his office.”
Eden is also an author, releasing her best-selling autobiography “Jeannie Out of the Bottle“ in 2012. Two years ago, she also published her first children’s book, “Barbara and the Djinn,” which perhaps not surprisingly features a young girl named Barbara and yes, a genie.
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