Barbara Eden is best known for the 1960s television series I Dream of Jeannie, but five years before she starred in the fantasy comedy, the actress appeared in a Paul Newman movie. Decades later, the film stands out to the beloved star.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Eden, 95, recalled working with Newman, who was one of Hollywood’s most famous leading men at the time, early in her career.
“My first encounter, I think, was Paul Newman,” Eden told the outlet of the first big movie star she worked with.
Eden recalled that after she appeared in a stage play titled Voice of the Turtle, she caught the eye of film director Mark Robson.
“He brought me to Fox [Studios],” Eden said. “Mark was doing a movie with Paul Newman, and he asked me to play a part in it, and I was happy to do that…I only had one scene, and it was with Paul. So that was the first time I had a really big star to work with. It was wonderful.”
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The film, From the Terrace (1960), starred Newman as David Alfred Eaton, a World War II veteran turned Wall Street financier in a loveless marriage with a wealthy woman (played by Newman’s real-life wife Joanne Woodward). Eden played Clemmie Shreve, a flirty socialite who suggests to the Navy veteran, “Let’s dance and crowd each other.” She then sneaks a kiss from him.
Newman was 35 years old at the time while Eden was 29 when they filmed the scene, per a post on Newman’s official Facebook page. Newman died in 2008 at age 83.
Eden once revealed that during the brief time working together, Newman gave her a look that she still remembers more than 60 years later.
“He was not a big guy,” she said in an interview posted by Arcadia Live. “That’s why he liked me so much. Many of the leading ladies were as tall or taller than he. But his piercing blue eyes were like none other, and even though it was a quick scene, I never forgot that look he gave me.”
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