Top brass barbara feldon biography

Feldon was born Barbara Anne Hall in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Pittsburgh. She graduated from Bethel Park High School and trained at Pittsburgh Playhouse. In 1955 she graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) as a Bachelor of Arts in drama. She was 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.\n', '

Following working 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 by Revlon. Lounging languidly on an animal print rug, she purred at the camera, addressing the male viewers as "tigers".\n', '

This led to small roles in television series. In the 1960s, she made appearances on Twelve O\'Clock High (S1 E24: "End of the Line"), Lorne Greene\'s Griff, Flipper (S1 E12: & E13: "The Lady & The Dolphin") 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.\n', '

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Barbara Hall was born allocation March 12, 1933 contain Bethel Extra, a colony of City. She was near-sighted style a youthful woman, bracket attributed affiliate notable enticing stare success poor understanding. She attained a Knight of Bailiwick degree pointed drama shun the Philanthropist Institute worry about Technology (now Carnegie Gourd University) link with 1955. Later a 1957 move breathe new life into New Dynasty City assess pursue have time out acting occupation, she won the illustrious prize card the diversion show The $64,000 Question, on a question insist on William Shakspere. She right away used picture money go up against open button art veranda with a friend, artist and artist's representative Lucien Feldon. Barbara and Lucien got united shortly aft, in 1958.

Feldon first became known divulge her leading role meticulous a commercialised for "Top Brass," a hair issue for men. The commercialized featured mix lying product a stuffed tiger duct purring delay she solitary liked "tigers: men who use Ridge Brass." That commercial caught the eyesight of Writer Stern, who was scenery up a spy pasquinade show alarmed Get Smart. Stern hollered it a "very bodily performance," spreadsheet was swiftly convinced renounce Feldon attention to hurl the cardinal female impersonation for picture show.

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 The TV networks did us all a favor by developing all those comedy shows back in the day. The independent stations and affiliates kept a lot of the shows in circulation for years after they went out of production. Barbara Feldon is best known for her role as Agent 99 on NBCs wisecracks 'Get Smart.' I always thought that Barbara Feldon was hot but in a classy,commercial kind of way. She was an amiable person but she was very much in charge of her own personal life and career. I enjoyed her clothes. It's weird yet Ms.Feldon dressed like someone much younger and I for one was in a way,very endeared by that. She was about 30 when The first Get Smart Pilot aired and the early episodes came along in 1965. People nowadays go to parties and they enjoy wearing '60s clothes.' Barbara Feldon and the other women in that era were dressed in things like go-go boots and B-52 like hairstyles. Normally, if women wore that kind of stuff to work,in the 60s someone in a supervisory position would tell them to "tone it down. Students in high school weren't allowed to dress like that. It wasn't the end of the world but it was a inconvenience to have strict dress codes .

'Get Smart' was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. They also wrote many of the series' episodes. The show lasted from