{"id":1626,"date":"2013-07-05T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T17:09:48","slug":"barbara-feldon-and-the-64000-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/07\/05\/barbara-feldon-and-the-64000-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Feldon and ‘The $64,000 Question’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Barbara Anne Hall Feldon and Gene Kelly, who could sing, dance and act, both grew up in Pittsburgh and achieved fame.<\/p>\n

This photograph of the two Western Pennsylvania celebrities was taken in 1956 on the set of the television quiz show \u201cThe $64,000 Question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly served as master of ceremonies and asked the actress questions about playwright William Shakespeare; her successful answers increased her winnings to $96,000. (Books and ballet were her favorite pursuits as a child and a teen-ager. She studied Shakespeare while a drama student at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University.)<\/p>\n

A statuesque woman, Barbara Hall also was a dancer and performed in the Ziegfeld Follies staged in 1957 at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City.<\/p>\n

That same year, she \u00a0met Katharine Hepburn while auditioning for roles in plays at the American Shakespeare Festival held in Stratford, Conn.<\/p>\n

During the 1960s, Ms. Feldon used her sultry looks to pitch a men\u2019s cologne called Top Brass to the \u201ctigers\u201d in the television audience. She also worked as a high-priced fashion model.<\/p>\n

From 1965 to 1970, she co-starred as Agent 99 in the hit television show, \u201cGet Smart,\u201d playing opposite Don Adams, who portrayed the brilliant but klutzy spy named Maxwell Smart. The show parodied James Bond and other popular spy movies at a time when the U.S. and Russia were locked in the Cold War.<\/p>\n

In 1975, Ms. Feldon played a beauty contest organizer in a satirical movie comedy called \u201cSmile.\u201d She narrated the PBS series \u201cDinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now 80 years old, Ms. Feldon is the author of a 2002 book titled \u201cLiving Alone and Loving It: A Guide to Relishing the Solo Life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Barbara Anne Hall Feldon and Gene Kelly, who could sing, dance and act, both grew up in Pittsburgh and achieved fame.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesBarbara Feldon and ‘The $64,000 Question’<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1066],"tags":[961,1035,1036,1044],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpbsutiLTv1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C984&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/11\/03\/pittsburgh-playhouse-performers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":0},"title":"Pittsburgh Playhouse performers","date":"November 3, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Point Park University took over the facility in 1973.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_ne6asgl3AH1rr5swxo5_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C929&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2461,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/10\/03\/andrew-carnegie-in-braddock\/","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":1},"title":"Andrew Carnegie in Braddock","date":"October 3, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"The philanthropist visits Braddock","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mba7ryj5wc1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2354,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/10\/30\/february-1978-if-youre-a-pittsburgher-and-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":2},"title":"Romero\u2019s \u2018Dawn of the Dead\u2019 filmed in Pittsburgh","date":"October 30, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"'Dawn of the Dead' is so gory it would make your eyes hurt if not for the cartoonishly red blood.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mcohcr97dk1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C823&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2458,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/10\/03\/andrew-carnegie-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-braddock-carnegie-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":3},"title":"Andrew Carnegie celebrates 25th anniversary of the Braddock Carnegie Library","date":"October 3, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Braddock\u2019s streets were packed when Andrew Carnegie arrived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library he\u2019d built for the town.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mba80pb6UM1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C794&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":681,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/05\/09\/joseph-c-fitzpatrick-pittsburghs-legendary-art-teacher\/","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":4},"title":"Joseph C. 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