Barbara Rhoades

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Barbara Rhoades
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Other namesBarbara Rhodes
Barbara Orenstein
OccupationActress
Years active19672011
Spouse
(m. 1979)

Barbara Rhoades is an American actress, known primarily for her comedy and mystery roles, especially as lady bandit Penelope ("Bad Penny") Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) with Don Knotts.

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She had a recurring role on Soap as Maggie Chandler, Jodie Dallas's future wife.

Early years

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, Rhoades is the daughter of Sherry Rhoades.[ citation needed ]

She attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School. [1]

She began taking dancing lessons when she was 7 years old. [2]

Career

Rhoades began acting in the late 1960s, appearing in guest roles on several television series, including It Takes a Thief , Ironside , Mannix , McMillan & Wife , Columbo , Kojak , Starsky & Hutch , Alias Smith and Jones , Love, American Style , The Odd Couple , The Six Million Dollar Man , Sanford and Son , Bewitched , Maude , Trapper John, M.D. , The Partridge Family , Murder, She Wrote, Cagney & Lacey, and Law & Order . She was a regular cast member of the 1977 situation comedy Busting Loose , portraying Melody Feebeck, and in 1989, as Jessica Gardner on Generations [3]

In 1967, Rhoades signed a long-term exclusive contract with Universal Pictures. [4]

Rhoades appeared in a number of films during the 1970s, including There Was a Crooked Man... (1970), opposite Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda, and Up the Sandbox (1972) starring Barbra Streisand. She played a police officer, "No Balls" Hadley, in 1977's The Choirboys and a Las Vegas hooker who picks up Art Carney along the road during his Oscar-winning performance in Harry and Tonto (1974). She also had roles in Scream Blacula Scream (1973) and The Goodbye Girl (1977) and was a frequent panelist on the popular 1970s game show Match Game , hosted by Gene Rayburn. In 2007, she appeared in First Born with Elisabeth Shue.[ citation needed ]

In 2011, she had a recurring role on the American soap opera One Life to Live as Irene Manning, childhood best friend of Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak).

For 18 months [4] on Broadway, Rhoades had the role of a showgirl in the musical Funny Girl (1964). [5] She gained other stage experience in summer stock productions at the Cecilwood Theater in Fishkill, New York. [4]

Personal life

Rhoades married Bernie Orenstein, a television producer. [6]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1968 The Shakiest Gun in the West Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings
Don't Just Stand There! Kendall Flanagan
1970 There Was a Crooked Man... Miss Jessie Brundidge
1972 Up the Sandbox Dr. Bolden
1973 Scream Blacula Scream Elaine
Little Cigars HelenCredited as Barbara Rhodes
Alternative title: The Little Cigars Mob
1974 Harry and Tonto Stephanie
1976 The Great Houdini Margery Crandon
1977 The Choirboys No Balls Hadley
1977 The Goodbye Girl Donna
1980 Serial Vivian
2007 First Born Nancy
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1968 The Virginian JosieEpisode: "With Help from Ulysses"
1968 It Takes a Thief HildaEpisode: "A Spot of Trouble"
1968 Mannix BillieSeason 2 episode 02 "Comes Up rose"
1969 Love, American Style BunnySeason 1, Episode 2, Vignette: "Love and the Unlikely Couple"
Credited as Barbara Rhodes
1970 The Partridge Family La VonEpisode: "Danny and the Mob"
1970 Mannix DonnaEpisode: "Once upon a Saturday"
1971 Bewitched ArethaEpisode: "The House That Uncle Arthur Built "
1972 McCloud SusanEpisode: "Give My Regrets to Broadway"
1972 Mission: Impossible Vicki Wells1 episode
1972 The Paul Lynde Show Eve LoringEpisode 10: "Whose Lib?"
1972–1973 McMillan & Wife 4 episodes
1973 Kojak Joanna FerroEpisode: "Web of Death"
1973 Night Gallery JulieEpisode: "Something in the Woodwork"
1973 Police Story MarnieEpisode: "Slow Boy"
1974 Happy Days Bubbles McCallEpisode: "The Skin Game"
1974 The Odd Couple LucyEpisode: "Our Fathers"
1974 Nakia Jackie ThayerEpisode: "Roots of Anger"
1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Unnamed secretaryEpisode: "Primal Scream"
1975 Petrocelli Virginia Halima1 episode
1975 Ellery Queen Veronica Vale1 episode
1975 Columbo JoyceEpisode: "Identity Crisis"
1975 Starsky & Hutch Robin MortonEpisode: "Shootout"
1975 The Six Million Dollar Man Kelly WixtedEpisode: "Target in the Sky"
1976 The Blue Knight Carrie4 episodes
1976 Sanford and Son Gladys3 episodes
1977 Busting Loose Melody FeebeckRegular (21 episodes)
1977 Match Game Herself ('77-'82)
1978 Quark Princess CarnaEpisode: "The Old and the Beautiful"
1978 The Love Boat Di Di Donnelly1 episode
1978 Maude Maggie GallagherEpisode: "Maude's Big Move: Part 3"
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries AliciaEpisode: "Murder! Murder!"
1979 Hanging In Maggie Gallagher4 episodes
1979 Super Train 1 episode (February 1979 episode 2)
1979–1981 Password Plus Herself15 episodes
1980–1981 Soap Maggie Chandler10 episodes
1982 Magnum, P.I. Marcella Ziller1 episode
1984 Murder, She Wrote Barbara StevensonEpisode: "Birds of a Feather"
1985 Cagney & Lacey Cece WentworthEpisode: "Happily Ever After"
1986 You Again? Maggie Davis4 episodes
1988 Charles in Charge Pat Walker1 episode
1988 Murder, She Wrote Flo Oakes1 episode
1989 Generations Jessica Gardnerseries regular
1990 Father Dowling Mysteries Daphne Dumont1 episode
1991 Over My Dead Body Det. Loraine McBride1 episode
1993 Diagnosis: Murder Marcy Blake1 episode
1995 Marker Woman1 episode
2003 Law & Order Kathy McGarity1 episode
2011 One Life to Live Irene Manning

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