{"id":3778,"date":"2016-07-03T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2016-07-03T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T13:01:47","slug":"happy-birthday-eileen-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/03\/happy-birthday-eileen-oneill\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY EILEEN O&#8217;NEILL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the mid-sixties television viewers could not change the channel without catching a glimpse of Eileen O\u2019Neill. This beautiful brunette (sometimes blonde) Irish lass was a regular playing a police officer on <em>Burke\u2019s Law<\/em> starring Gene Barry for two years. She then made appearances on practically all of the era\u2019s top sitcoms including <em>The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em>, <em>I Dream of Jeannie<\/em>, <em>Bewitched<\/em>, <em>My Favorite<\/em> <em>Martian<\/em>, <em>The Munsters, Get Smart<\/em>, and <em>Batman <\/em>as Clock King&#8217;s (Walter Slezak) wonderfully named henchgirl Millie Second.\u00a0Eileen\u2019s career was not limited to the small screen though.\u00a0 She made her film debut in <em>A Majority of One<\/em> and then played a haughty rich girl in the teen exploitation film <em>Teenage Millionaire<\/em>.\u00a0 After taking small roles in <em>Four for Texas<\/em>, <em>Kiss Me, Stupid<\/em>, and <em>The Third Day<\/em> Eileen played the heroine in the James Bond spy spoof <em>A Man Called Dagger<\/em> starring Paul Mantee. In 1973, she retired from acting to concentrate on her marriage. You can read my interviews with Eileen in my book\u00a0<em>Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema<\/em> and my and Louis Paul&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films &amp; Television 1962-1973<\/em> (in which she wrote the foreword). As a side note, my friend Shaun Chang and I visited Eileen about 15 years ago in LA. She was warm, friendly, and a gracious hostess living in a beautiful home with spectacular views of the Los Angeles basin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/batman.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3779\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3779\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/batman.jpg\" alt=\"batman\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the mid-sixties television viewers could not change the channel without catching a glimpse of Eileen O\u2019Neill. This beautiful brunette (sometimes blonde) Irish lass was a regular playing a police officer on Burke\u2019s Law starring Gene Barry for two years. She then made appearances on practically all of the era\u2019s top sitcoms including The Beverly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}