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Actress Barbara Eden<\/a><\/strong>, 94, is sharing some inside information about the beloved sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie<\/a><\/em>, which had a five-season run until 1970.<\/p>\n In a September 2025 interview with People magazine<\/a>, Eden explained why the first season of the show, which began airing in September 1965, was shot in black-and-white. According to Eden, the series, which followed the genie Jeannie (Eden) and Captain\/Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson (Larry Hagman<\/a><\/strong>), wasn’t colorized because of her pregnancy with her late son, Matthew Ansara.<\/p>\n \u201cI was pregnant. I was going to have a baby, and so they started fast, and I think they thought I was going to die or something. They didn’t want to invest the money in the color,” said Eden to the publication.<\/p>\n While speaking to People magazine in 2001, Eden said she found out she was pregnant “the same day that\u00a0I Dream of Jeannie<\/em>\u00a0sold.”<\/p>\n “I was thrilled. I was so happy, but I knew they’d have to replace me. Well, God love [I Dream of Jeannie\u00a0<\/em>creator] Sidney Sheldon. He got to work, and we did the first 13 shows with me pregnant with Matthew,” said Eden in the People magazine interview.<\/p>\n In a 2011 interview on celebrity.land<\/a>, Eden clarified that she looked pregnant when filming I Dream of Jeannie<\/em> Season 1. She explained that Jeannie’s many scarves and clever use of the show’s furniture helped hide her stomach.<\/p>\n She also said she didn’t have difficulty raising her son while starring as Jeannie. She stated that her ex-husband, actor Michael Ansara, whom she divorced in 1974, was “a wonderful husband” and attentive father.<\/p>\n “We had a great housekeeper, [and] two grandmothers that were there, a lot. I was home generally from Friday through Monday,” said Eden in the interview.<\/p>\n Eden raved about motherhood in a 2016 interview on OWN. <\/a>She said being a mother to her son “was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened in [her] life.” She also noted that her child died in 2001 following an unintentional drug overdose. He was 35.<\/p>\n In the OWN interview, Eden said she prefers to “remember the good times” in Matthew’s life.<\/p>\n “That’s what I remember. I don’t dwell on the other, you know. Oh I have a lot of memories of Matthew of course. Wonderful. Because he had such a great sense of humor, he teased me all the time,” said Eden with a smile.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 29, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actress Barbara Eden, 94, is sharing some inside information about the beloved sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie, which had a five-season run until 1970. In a September 2025 interview with People magazine, Eden explained why the first season of the show, which began airing in September 1965, was shot in black-and-white. 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Barbara Eden Raved About Motherhood in a 2016 Interview<\/h2>\n