Barbara Feldon
Barbara Feldon (born March 12, 1933) is an American character actress who works mostly in the theatre, but is primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart. She also worked as a model.
Early life
Feldon was born Barbara Anne Hall in Butler, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. She graduated from Bethel Park High School and trained at Pittsburgh Playhouse. She graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1955, with a Bachelor of Arts in drama. She initiated into the Delta Xi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma . In 1957, she won the grand prize on The $64,000 Question in the category of William Shakespeare.
Career
Following some work as a model, Feldon's break came in the form of a popular and much parodied television commercial for "Top Brass", a hair pomade for men. Lounging languidly on an animal print rug, she purred at the camera, addressing the male viewers as "tigers".
This led to small roles in television series. In the 1960s, she made appearances on Twelve O'Clock High, Lorne Greene's Griff, Flipper, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (in "The Never-Never Affair"). In 1964, she appeared with Simon Oakland in the episode "Try to Find a Spy" of CBS's short-lived drama Mr. Broadway.
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ALBUMS
- Hey! Look What I Found, Volume 12 released: 2008
- Get Smart released:
- Spy Magazine Presents, Vol. 1: Spy Music released:
Hey! Look What I Found, Volume 12
Released 2008- Dancing With My Shadow
- Beaver
- I Looked at Heaven
- The Old Payola Roll Blues, Part 1
- The Old Payola Roll Blues, Part 2
- In the Mood
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian
- The Ballad of the One Eyed Jacks
- Bobby
- When I Saw You
- Mary Jane
- She's a Rebel
- Gonna Get Some Records
- China Nights (Shina No Yoru)
- Mathematics of Love
- I've Got a Secret
- Mister Sandman
- Looking Through the Eyes of Love
- Splendor in the Grass
- One More Sunrise
- Max
- To Sir With Love
- These Boots Are Made for Walking
- Lullaby From 'Rosemary's Baby'
- Substitute
- Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)
- The National Anthem of Rock 'n' Roll
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by Jeannie C. Riley
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by Foetus
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by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
Satan Place
by: Jeannie C. RileyWe saw a sign Welcome Satan Place when we moved to town that day
And rows of little white homes that looked like castles all along the way
But after livin' there a while we found it wasn't what we thought at all
They had a private little scandal goin' on behind each castle wall
There was a Town Council meetin' on the day the story come to pass
Someone said Mrs Brown we think your little girl is livin' way too fast
She's been datin' older boys and stayin' out much later than she should
And there's been quite a lotta talk about it goin' round the neighborhood
Well Mrs Brown said since you brought it up I think I'll tell you what I saw
The day your daughter Ellie and the judge's son went swimmin' in the raw
Is that supposed to be a party what you call learnin' social grace
Cause if it is I think your people are in trouble here in Satan Place
I heard your neighbor's daughter Betty spent the summer in another town
They say she gained a little weight before she left but now she's trimmed back down
And now I wonder why the banker's son won't even look her in the face
We used to see 'em both together everywhere they went in Satan Place
They say the Mayor's daughter got another speedin' ticket just last week
They didn't charge for drunken drivin' even though she couldn't hardly speak
I heard she brags about the way her daddy gets free liquor by the case
From all those bootleggin' friends who make a killin' here in Satan Place
When Mrs Brown had finished talkin' no one dared to make a single sound
Until the chairman of the meetin' rapped his gavel and looked around
And as his eyes swept across the room at guilty looks on every face
He said that wraps up this meetin' of the Council of Satan Place