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She born was Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona, became one of America's most endearing and enduring actresses. A graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California, Eden would go on to study at San Francisco's City College as well as the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre. While her aspirations as a singer motivated her during her early years for a career in music, it was her starring role in the NBC TV comedy series,  I Dream of Jeannie  (1965) where Barbara Eden immediately gained international acclaim. Eden's first public performance was singing in the church choir, where she sang the solos. As a teenager, she sang in local bands for $10 (roughly equivalent to $130 in 2017) a night in night clubs. At age 16, she became a member of Actor's Equity, and studied singing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and acting with the Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre. Eden began her television career...

Handsome, lanky comic character player who first gained notoriety for saying the f-word on the air while employed by  Saturday Night Live.  Rocket was subsequently fired from the long-running sketch series and went on to appear in a number of films, TV-movies, specials and several series. Rocket was born as Charles Adams Claverie in Bangor, Maine, the son of Mary Aurelia (Fogler) and Sumner Abbott " Ham " Claverie. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene in the 1970s that also included  Talking Heads  frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant. Rocket made several short films and fronted his band, the  Fabulous Motels , on accordion (which he used in an  SNL  sketch about a crazed criminal who uses an accordion to kill his dates and is killed himself by a bagpipe band). He was then a news anchor at WPRI-TV in Providence Rhode Island and at KOAA-TV in Pueblo, Col...

Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France, the son of Augustine Louise Durand and Maurice Boyer, a merchant. Boyer (whose surname comes from boièr, the Occitan word for " cowherd ") was a shy small-town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven. Boyer performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly during World War I. He began studies briefly at the Sorbonne and was waiting for a chance to study acting at the Paris Conservatory. In the 1920s, he not only played a suave and sophisticated ladies' man on the stage but also appeared in several silent films. Boyer's first film was  L'homme du large  (1920), directed by Marcel L'Herbier. At first, he performed film roles only for the money and found that supporting roles were unsatisfying. However, with the coming of sound, his deep voice made him a romantic star. Boyer was first brought to Hollywood by MGM who wanted him to play the Chester Morris part in a French version ...