I Dream of Jeannie Cast Then and Now (2023) 

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I Dream of Jeannie starred the enchanting Barbara Eden as Jeannie, who was coincidentally also a genie! The sitcom ran from 1965 to 1970 and amassed a huge fanbase. Have you been wondering "Where are they now?" when it comes to the cast? Well, let's take a look at the I Dream Of Jeannie cast then and now to see how they've changed through the years.
00:00 - Intro
0:21 - Phil Ober as Brig. Gen. Wingard Stone
1:23 - Barton MacLane as General Martin Peterson
2:20 - Emmaline Henry as Barton MacLane
3:40 - Michael Ansara as The BLue Djinn
4:45 - Hayden Rorke as Col. Dr. Alfred Bellows
5:51 - Bill Daily as Major Roger Healey
6:56 - Abraham Sofaer as Haji
8:01 - Larry Hagman as Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson
9:06 - Karen Sharpe as Melissa Stone
10:11 - Barbara Eden as Jeannie
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I Dream of Jeannie is a sitcom about a 2,000-year-old genie, originally run on NBC. This genie is a woman, strangely named Jeannie, as they all are in her world! The genie is released from her bottle after 2000 years by a regular guy, who sets her free, Major Tony Nelson. Regardless, hilarity ensues as Jeannie tries to help improve his life with her powers, but usually only slightly leaves a path of pink and well-meaned destruction. Here is what the cast did after the show ended.
The series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in response to the great success of rival network ABC's Bewitched series, which had debuted in 1964 as the second-most watched program in the United States. Sheldon, inspired by the 1964 film The Brass Bottle, conceived of the idea for a beautiful female genie. Both I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched were Screen Gems productions.
When casting was opened for the role of Jeannie, producer Sidney Sheldon could not find an actress who could play the role the way that he had written it. He did have one specific rule: He did not want a blonde genie, because the similarity with the blonde witch on Bewitched would be too much. However, after many unsuccessful auditions, he called Barbara Eden's agent.
The show debuted at 8 pm, Saturday, September 18, 1965, on NBC. When NBC began broadcasting most of its prime-time television line-up in color in the fall of 1965, Jeannie was one of two programs that remained in black and white, in its case because of the special photographic effects employed to achieve Jeannie's magic. By the second season, however, further work had been done on techniques to create the visual effects in color, which was necessary because by 1966 all prime-time series in the United States were being made in color.
Sheldon originally wanted to film season one in color, but NBC did not want to pay for the extra expenses, as the network (and Screen Gems) believed the series would not make it to a second season. Sheldon offered to pay the extra US$400 an episode needed for color filming at the beginning of the series, but Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams advised him: "Sidney, don't throw your money away."
Jeannie's iconic bottle was not created for the show. The actual bottle was a special Christmas 1964 Jim Beam liquor decanter containing "Beam's Choice" bourbon whiskey. It was designed by Roy Kramer for the Wheaton Bottle Company. For years, Sidney Sheldon was said to have received one as a gift and thought it would be a perfect design for the series. Several people in the Screen Gems art department also take credit for finding the bottle. Strong evidence, however, indicates first season director Gene Nelson saw one in a liquor store and bought it, bringing it to Sheldon.
Jeannie's bottle was left in its original dark, smoke-green color, with a painted gold-leaf pattern (to make it look like an antique), during the first season. The plot description of the pilot episode in TV Guide in September 1965 referred to it as a "green bottle". In that first episode, it also looked quite rough and weathered. Since the show was originally filmed in black and white, a lot of colors and patterns were not necessary. When the show switched to color, the show's art director came up with a brightly colored purple bottle to replace the original. The later colorized version of the show's first season tried to make out that the smoked glass look of the original gold-leaf design is in fact purple, to match the consistent look of the bottle used in the second through fifth seasons.
I Dream of Jeannie Cast Then and Now
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