Barbara Eden and Bill Daily: Full Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 Panel (Official)

hello Salt Lake City whoa so glad to see you all here my name is Patterson Lundqvist I'm the social media manager for Miss Eden I'm also the head of I Dream of Jeannie comm team Eden and I handle all the archive images and all the internet work for Miss Eden so I'm here to help you guys know everything you want to know within limits so first I'd like to bring out on the stage everyone loves him everyone knows him from I Dream of Jeannie Bill Daley major Healey and from Bob Newhart Howard Borden Bill Daley come on go say hello bill and keep it clean oh hi everybody believe me he's not always this soft-spoken all right now you all know her from various different appearances all the way back to I Love Lucy Andy Griffith the list goes on and on she's captured all of your hearts especially when she was released from her bottle Salt Lake let's give a big round of applause for the one the only miss Barbara Eden how are you Barbara I'm fine yeah so I'm sure that there's a lot of a lot of questions out here and we have people lined up at the various microphones but first I want to on behalf of Salt Lake I wanted to welcome both of you here I know that you've been asked countless times if this is your first time to Salt Lake and how you're enjoying it so Barbara you first how are you feeling about Salt Lake City I'm having a wonderful time this is one of the prettiest cities I've ever been in yeah and I guess the last time I was here my my sister was living here and it was Thanksgiving and neither one of us knew how to cook a turkey or roast a turkey so we called our mother who was then living in San Francisco I think we had the most expensive long distance line in the world because she was step by step she took us through roasting a turkey so that's Salt Lake City and Bill how do you like Salt Lake are we in Salt Lake I thought we were in Cleveland what happened Cleveland is right next to Howard Johnson no this is the prettiest city I've ever been in I've never been here before but it's just really gorgeous lovely I never liked this crowd but that's really nice no it's a dynamite city you're very lucky wonderful that's correct the most boring city in the world I'm from Des Moines Iowa I mean that's really boring which is right next to Cleveland so that's all right all right well as I already announced we have both bill and Barbara here as you all know Jeannie and major Healey so without further ado I'd like to start bringing forward some of the audience members who have questions let's start over here on the right step forward yes hi my name is Shawna and I just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of I Dream of Jeannie I grew up watching it with my mom and and we both just think you're both incredible and thank you for coming my question is for Jeannie hi Barbara okay sorry I just wondered if on the set of Jeannie if you had any input into your wardrobe and your style is so adorable and I love I love pretending I was Jeannie and I always tried to imitate your style when I was little I just wondered if you had any input into your wardrobe er I did actually I was very lucky Gwen way chling designed the Jeannie costume and she had won an Academy Award for for another film I did the the wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm and at the time she came to me before we did Jeannie and she said what color would you like do you you know what what do you think what would you like I said pink and then she says well do you mind if we put a hat she said I think it's always nice to have pink around the face you know the scarf around the face so so I was lucky because she gave me a choice but she I was also lucky because she was very talented all right Bergen on the wing swing over here to this side you have a question hi my name is Claire my question so bill daley told us that he got to improvise a lot of his dialogue and that some of the cast got to do that so what is your favorite or unexpected improvised moment on the show you who are you asking me both of you and then because I didn't really improvise the only time I improvise is when you stuck me in the bottle at lunch time they we had a bottle of water a perfume bottle and Claudio Guzman was directing and at lunch day and I was so hungry oh my god I was hungry and and I was I think I was being the green Genie that yes darling you know Nancy went and they put me in a perfume bottle and I couldn't get out and they all left they just left me there in water up to here I didn't understand the question by the way did you hear did you ever have your favorite moment of improvisation and improvising that stands out in your mind if when y'all improvised on set that's a tough question improvised did we improvise at all you did oh well I mean there was I just had the best time ever I can tell you that of course I worked with her and Larry was it and and working getting paid for it so that was kind of nice but I had the best time in my life just ever except right now in the city I'm getting bored everybody's telling me I'm telling how beautiful this is I'd live it I'd look unwell nope I'm gonna get going down there a little side note I'll mention about the the moment that Miss Eden just referenced Claudio Guzman had told all of the crew in the set people that they were gonna play a prank on Barbara and they were gonna put her down in the perfume bottle like she just described and they were gonna roll the cameras and then they all were to leave and walk away and go to lunch while Barbara was inside the perfume bottle they went cut and walked off but they left the camera running and the footage of Barbara genuinely going was actually her watching the crew walk away from the set with her trapped inside the giant perfume bottle and they use the footage and I was hungry and I was not very nice when I was hungry question over here blink yourself some food you're right but anyway Barbara this question is really directed to you but bill can answer a similar type question I've seen you in a lot of different things but I'd like you to comment on working with people like Andy Griffith Lucille Ball and Melissa Joan Hart oh well I've never worked with a Max Payne you have yes I had a wonderful time with all of them especially the steel ball because that was right at the beginning of my career and she was so good to me such a lovely generous actress and at the time I was under contract I wasn't under contract to Fox yet I had signed a piece of paper with them and they could pick up the option if they wanted to and then after the show Lucy came over and said I would like very much to put you under contract because I'm looking for women who can play comedy and I got the phone call right after she asks me so consequently I went to Fox and Elvis Presley so bill with you you after well actually before I Dream of Jeannie you did work with my mother the car and bewitched my mother the car there's a big hit hahaha though but Mike so for Bill what was it like after Jeannie Yuna then worked with Bob Newhart as Holford Borden the absent-minded airline navigator so a comparative with Barbara what was it like with Bob Bob Bob actually was my accountant when it was a director at NBC oh really he didn't want to be in the business but he's the nicest sweetest man I ever liked I'd loved but I like doing Barbie with Cheney because he went to the verse Bob never wanted to rehearse ever he's very smart he's very bright but didn't want to do that a lot it was live for the whole audience and it was terrifying at least when we work together I mean it was fun and great we did scenes at a time but Bob what was that that somebody just died out there I'm dying right now trying to explain that story yeah well one of the things that a lot of people don't know or I've thought about a lot of shows these days are filmed before a live studio audience --is as was the Bob Newhart show but the difference back then was I Dream of Jeannie entailed so many special effects that they did not have a live studio audience so Bill's referencing the fact that because Bob as a comedian and he writes all of his material and jokes and has the way he wants it delivered he didn't want any rehearsals he wanted to be right there cold on the spot get there at E audiences laughter and that could be a nightmare when you've come from a set like I Dream of Jeannie where Bill and Larry were able to run through the scene yeah there was a great it was great it was Mary was great not even having to think about it you just did it and it was smooth so let's go ahead and go over here we've got a question on this side what is your favorite role you played are you asking me well I would have to say of course Jeannie I mean that's the obvious one but having said that I also did two other television shows the very first one I did was how to marry a millionaire yeah and I don't think anyone remembers but it was I played the Marilyn Monroe part in that and I had so much fun in those days we did 38 shows a year now they do they're lucky if they do 12 but and in high heels that wasn't fun and the second one was Harper Valley PTA and I love playing Stella that was such a departure from Jeanie so it was kind of fun you know I could be naughty I mean in a different way naughty but my favorite role was the Danish all I had for breakfast you had a Danish roll I didn't ever do well well how come you did well I'm gonna roll I'm on a dangerous road actually all right let's swing over here this side we got a question okay first of all I really love Jeanie you were really amazing I love your style and my question is what was your favorite show out of all the shows you have done of Jeannie yeah of Jeannie or my body of work your body okay well I would say for different reasons when I was under contract to Fox they loaned me to MGM for two films with George pal one was the wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm and the other was dr. loud the seventh aces of dr. Lao and I love dr. Lao I love the character I played and I loved working with Tony Randall so I guess those those two films actually okay thank you over here to this side um who are you both most excited to meet here at comic-con you go first we're gonna make a lot of enemies here what disorders it's not bad to start with Simon this know it's really night I met aloof rigna was a good friend of mine and I met him and that was kind of nice remember Luke fragrant incredible huh nice day in fact what happened was my agent said that that you know that he just finished the show and I was doing a play and director said can you use him at all and was doing Arsenic and Old Lace so I figure what we're gonna yeah we're gonna instead of doing Frankenstein we'll doing The Incredible Hulk and all I said he came in here and always built like crap and I said you've been working out and he was brilliant he was just brilliant traveller for quite a few times it was a nice very nice man I'm sorry who's the one I just fell in love with I just think it's so cute Oh Oh Stanley I love him he's a rascal yeah okay we're gonna come over here to this side for another question hi my name is Cristina and this is for kind of for both of you but I was wondering if you guys were ever thinking of making another series of a I Dream of Jeannie well that's not really up to us that's up to the people who own I Dream of Jeannie and goodness knows who owns it now I think it's Sony yeah I think it's Sony Studios because they have the rights to make the feature film which they have written about seven scripts and haven't produced the movie yet so but that is probably the next thing that would be out I think I could speak for everyone and feel fear feel free to cheer when I say this but no one could replace Barbara Eden or Bill Daley Meryl Streep was actually first watered her to do my part and then of course we have to also say that there is no one who could have played Major Nelson like Larry Hagman I really miss him and we do we miss him over at this side for the next question I thank you for both of you being here and kind of segue into that about Larry Hagman I was gonna say that Jeannie is one of my favorite characters that you've played but my second favorite character is LeeAnn de la Vega from when you're on Dallas and I went my question is what was it like going from working on Jeannie to like 20 years later working with Larry Hagman again on the set of Dallas honey LeeAnn de la Vega I really got him I mean she got him good she got jr. wasn't my master it was jr. I had a ball I really did I thought she was talking to me you weren't LeeAnn de la Vega I don't think you would have fit into the outfit quite the same way okay we're gonna come over here for this side question oh hi so um you said Stanley was like a rascal right yeah so a cute one yeah okay so my friend she's like a goofball and she just wants to know do you find this man attractive Oh Errol from The Walking Dead that's Norman Reedus yeah well I don't know I probably have to meet him in person you know personality means a lot okay yeah yeah she just wanted to know cuz I like your like she loves you like a lot so I mean you're her favorite actress yes thank you Bill do you find Norman Reedus attractive let's go over here to this side for another question so what are some of the conflicts that you two have had during the show I Dream of Jeannie we didn't have any conflicts none at all that's sort of dull isn't it good wait we did Larry kept us on our toes but we know this is a happy set over here at this side I have a comment and a question Barbara your face is so beautiful I think it's a gift from God and like Mike my question is for Bill bill when you played all those match game shows with gene Rayburn in the 70s you guys got out of hand you guys were naughty so much did the producers yell at you after they tape the show he just said I'm doing a lousy job gene rape the funny things I just love that show but it cuz I'm not too bright it was as easy as if a gene was just wonderful and we had the best time but I can't drink and be funny well not sober I'm not funny but that's another story but that show they all they'd had them and we did like six shows so the first show they were kind of nice the second show tonight that but the seven show everybody was shit-faced I mean really everybody's gene waivers down on the floor going like this wait no I can't dive well had it but Jane Ray was a wonderful wonderful man by the way yep let's go to the side for another question up no no okay there goes I just wanted to know from you miss Eden if you wouldn't mind doing the is it the blank there oh you betcha whole audience just disappeared little did she know electric buzzers are putting the seats of everyone in here so when she blinked everyone got a jolt now let's come over here for another question who was your all-time favorite person to act with our favorite person to act with my favorite all-time why you're wonderful by the way not unbeautiful but Wow I was Wow Wow that was 300 years ago and she still looks great no no no 2000 through 39 any barber yeah well I've of course Larry Larry was just sort of we were on the same wavelength when we were acting no matter what parts we were playing didn't have to be master and genie it was whatever else we did we also did love letters together we toured with it and he was he was just part of me you know besides Larry though I think I loved working with Peter Lorre I don't know if any of you remember Peter Lorre he was wonderful a wonderful actor and a beautiful human being and I really liked him a lot alright let's go over to this side for the next question the seven phases of dr. Lao is one of my favorite movies and Barbara I was wondering if you could share what it was like to work with George Powell and Tony Randall well they're two really different people kinds of people George's is warm and cuddly and he had a twinkle in his eye and a wonderful gift for telling stories that were warm and cuddly and and nice tony was darling but Slaven I mean he was just what a Dickens and I he was and I loved working with him and even and we did a lot together in that film and we would play in between times we'd play gin rummy and I was you know my grandma taught me to play rummy and I was pretty good I could not win with him not one game was i winning and we're waiting we actually play while they changed the sets and they were quite elaborate on the backlot of MGM and one day I turned around and looked in back of me he always had me sitting in front of the mirror he could see my hand I mean bad all right we have a question over here um I just wanted to know what was your guys's favorite episode in I Dream of Jeannie they're always your favorite episode of I Dream of Jeannie oh boy I had such a good time on that show I think my favorite one was the thing that there was something to do with a house and I know the Colonel's coming over but the house oh no there was no house there remember that but there was little that was the episode he's speaking about is called invisible house for sale and Nene had gotten annoyed with Major Nelson because he was always doing yard work I never had time to go and do things with her so she was going to move him into an apartment and in the process of doing that she decided she was gonna sell the house the house was seen by someone who wanted to buy it and then Major Nelson found out that it was one of his superior officers and told her get rid of the house they can't buy it well she made the house invisible and bill major Healey decides to show up unknowing what was going on and runs into an invisible front door and builded the most spectacular pantomiming of opening a door walking in having to climb through a window and he had to pant in mind that he was actually doing it as hysterical so now Barbara your favorite your favorite episode I guess if I have one that it would be the pilot the very first one we did on the beach where he found the bottle I love that show I just love it we're gonna go over to this side for the next question hi Barbara bill thanks for coming out my questions for Barbara I wondered if you could tell me what it's like to be a sex symbol after all these years well thank you but first of all I did not mean for Jeannie to be sexy I never did I I didn't see her as a sex symbol she was a tomboy to me and and a fish out of water you know she didn't this is a world she didn't know anything about but she was she had these gifts and she adored her master but she wasn't human you see everyone it was so wrong to have us marry because she was an entity she was a genie a very classical figure actually and and he was a human so they couldn't they just couldn't get married yeah I was sorry when they did but nobody was it wasn't right but I didn't I didn't think of her as being sexy ever ever she had a good sense of humor she had fun and she was very physical but you know I'm I'm me and you're you yeah so it everyone has their own perception thank you you're welcome we're gonna come over here for the next question wait a minute by the way I also enjoyed being a sex symbol let's not forget that he was major Healey and had all the girls showing up the guys and the what no ask him about rollerskates oh don't ask about rollerskates next question I just want to say bill you're sexy baby Barbara I was wondering if you had any any fun stories from to your time working with all of us with Elvis I had a lot of stories because he was such a very nice man young man at that time he was a gentleman very well brought up and he we'd sit on the set and he had the one thing he told me they were his cousins I found out 30 years later that they weren't you know oh but but there were three guys there with guitars and Elvis had his and his dad was there and they'd sing in between like Tony Randall and I played gin rummy I'd sit there and I'd listen between shots and when they're moving the the stuff around Elvis would sing and it was heaven but just heaven I loved it private audience with Elvis how awesome is that come over here for the next question Mike fun she said I have to go to the bathroom no oh there we go okay I am my name's Ashley and I have a question for Miss Eden you recently for a charity event put back on the genie outfit and I was wondering how you felt about that and were you excited about that and how was it I was terrified I wasn't supposed to have that outfit on they were supposed to have made me an age-appropriate genie outfit and I got to New York that was before we went to be the the what she's talking about is the life ball in Vienna which is a huge charity event for Elton John's and Bill Clinton's what are they AIDS Foundation's aids initiatives the hell yeah don't they they have foundations yeah and so well they asked me to be the mistress of ceremonies and the it was called a thousand and one nights of course so I had to wear a Jeannie costume and I would but I would you know that was the age appropriate and I got to New York and it was not it didn't fit me and it wasn't right and a girlfriend of mine unbeknownst to me had poked my costume in my suitcase and I was shocked II I I knew it was there of course by the time I got to New York so I asked the designer I said kind of show you something and you let me know if it looks all right so I put it on and he said yes well he would have said anything at that point because his costume didn't fit you know so I had to wear it and I was terrified but you know you do what you have to do and I had a good time I had a really good time all right well we've got time for about one more question so we're gonna come over here for both of you I'm wondering if you have who your friends were did you have confidence like confident people that you talked to to say what you were thinking about roles that you were playing like I know it's teri Trappist but I see you like with Elizabeth Montgomery you know or something talking did you have any any confidence that you spoke with or confided in during during your career that you know anyone that you just kind of confided in during your process I think I know Evie would have been the one that you spoke with the most Barbara well Evie was my stand-in yep yeah and she was also Marilyn Monroe's stand-in so I would I would hear about Marilyn a lot and once you may if he wasn't working with me she was working with Evie and actually when I was filming five weeks in a balloon Marilyn was at 20th Century Fox Marilyn was shooting her last film I didn't none of us knew it was her last but if he came over on the set she always used to tell me blah blah she was from New York this is it Barbara I have to leave and go work with my other store okay she means Marilyn and so she left me on five weeks in a balloon and one day while we were shooting she came over and said Barbara Barbara I want you to meet my other star and I said I can't leave heavy I can't we're shooting you know we can't do that said oh no no no I already made it okay she knew everyone in town actually Evie so she took me by my hand and dragged me next door to one of these huge Televi stages they were built in the 40s I think and they're they're rock solid they're enormous it's bigger than this room and it was pitch black except for this one little little bit of light in the center and there was Marilyn and the the Wardrobe people and the makeup people and it was very quiet you know and Marilyn stood there and did her thing and then Evie said Oh Marilyn Marilyn I want you to meet my other star I died I must I must tell you she was absolutely the most beautiful thing I have ever seen she glowed she was and exactly like she was on the screen she talked like this and she was luminescent I'm so happy that I was given that gift to meet her because I think she was a very sweet lovely lady so quite clearly these two legends have had experiences that many of us wish we could have had and yet they have given us all our own memories in our own happiness by their hard work and I just want everyone to take one moment and think about the fact that these two legends here have proven to us by their work that fame and fortune is a side effect of hard work and good manners and clean attitudes except for this one so lets out a round of applause for barbara eden and Bill Daley

Channel: FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention

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Keywords: Bill Daily (Award Winner), Salt Lake Comic Con, Barbara Eden (Film Actor)

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Length: 36min 32sec (2192 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 18 2014