Barbara Rhoades
{{short description|American actress}}
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| birth_place = Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
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| other_names = Barbara Rhodes
Barbara Orenstein
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1967–2011
| spouse = {{marriage|Bernie Orenstein|1979}}
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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.
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 |date=April 2024}}
She attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School.{{cite news| title=Barbara Rhoades Lands Bumper Morgan| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18927544/barbara_rhoades/| newspaper=Poughkeepsie Journal| date=September 16, 1976| page=19| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=April 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}
She began taking dancing lessons when she was 7 years old.{{cite news| last1=Pack| first1=Harvey| title=A Long, Tall, Cool One| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18928759/barbara_rhoades/| newspaper=The Tampa Tribune:TV Week| agency=King Features Syndicate, Inc.| page=16| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=April 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}
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{{cite web| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Barbara-Rhoades.html| title=Barbara Rhoades Biography (1947-)| website=FilmReference.com| accessdate=2009-02-21| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308004250/http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Barbara-Rhoades.html| archivedate=March 8, 2009| url-status=live}}
In 1967, Rhoades signed a long-term exclusive contract with Universal Pictures.{{cite news| title=County Girl Starring In Universal Pictures| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18927771/barbara_rhoades/| newspaper=Poughkeepsie Journal| date=May 13, 1967| page=8| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=April 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}
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 |date=July 2020}}
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 on Broadway, Rhoades had the role of a showgirl in the musical Funny Girl (1964).{{cite web| title=Barbara Rhoades|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/barbara-rhoades-96043| website=Internet Broadway Database| accessdate=4 April 2018| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404175642/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/barbara-rhoades-96043| archivedate=4 April 2018}} She gained other stage experience in summer stock productions at the Cecilwood Theater in Fishkill, New York.
Personal life
Rhoades married Bernie Orenstein, a television producer.{{cite news| last1=Lardine| first1=Bob| title=Like Redford, Barbara Rhoades works only when she wants to| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18928447/barbara_rhoades/| work=Orlando Sentinel| agency=New York Daily News| date=October 14, 1979| page=2-F| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=April 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Film |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
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| rowspan=2|1968
| The Shakiest Gun in the West | Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings | |
| Don't Just Stand There!
| Kendall Flanagan | |
| 1970
| Miss Jessie Brundidge | |
| 1972
| Dr. Bolden | |
| rowspan=2|1973
| Elaine | |
| Little Cigars
| Helen | Credited as Barbara Rhodes |
| 1974
| Stephanie | |
| 1976
| Margery Crandon | |
| 1977
| No Balls Hadley | |
| 1977
| Donna | |
| 1980
| Serial | Vivian | |
| 2007
| Nancy | |
| colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
| 1968
| Josie | Episode: "With Help from Ulysses" |
| 1968
| Hilda | Episode: "A Spot of Trouble" |
| 1968
| Mannix | Billie | Season 2 episode 02 "Comes Up rose" |
| 1969
| Bunny | Season 1, Episode 2, Vignette: "Love and the Unlikely Couple" |
| 1970
| La Von | Episode: "Danny and the Mob" |
| 1970
|Donna |Episode: "Once upon a Saturday" |
| 1971
| Aretha | Episode: "The House That Uncle Arthur Built " |
| 1972
| McCloud | Susan | Episode: "Give My Regrets to Broadway" |
| 1972
| Vicki Wells | 1 episode |
| 1972
| Eve Loring | Episode 10: "Whose Lib?" |
| 1972–1973
| | 4 episodes |
| 1973
| Kojak | Joanna Ferro | Episode: "Web of Death" |
| 1973
| Julie | Episode: "Something in the Woodwork" |
| 1973
| Marnie | Episode: "Slow Boy" |
| 1974
| Bubbles McCall | Episode: "The Skin Game" |
| 1974
| Lucy | Episode: "Our Fathers" |
| 1974
| Nakia | Jackie Thayer | Episode: "Roots of Anger" |
| 1975
| Unnamed secretary | Episode: "Primal Scream" |
| 1975
| Virginia Halima | 1 episode |
| 1975
| Veronica Vale | 1 episode |
| 1975
| Columbo | Joyce | Episode: "Identity Crisis" |
| 1975
| Robin Morton | Episode: "Shootout" |
| 1975
| Kelly Wixted | Episode: "Target in the Sky" |
| 1976
| Carrie | 4 episodes |
| 1976
| Gladys | 3 episodes |
| 1977
| Melody Feebeck | Regular (21 episodes) |
| 1977
| Herself ('77-'82) | |
| 1978
| Quark | Princess Carna | Episode: "The Old and the Beautiful" |
| 1978
| Di Di Donnelly | 1 episode |
| 1978
| Maude | Maggie Gallagher | Episode: "Maude's Big Move: Part 3" |
| 1978
| Alicia | Episode: "Murder! Murder!" |
| 1979
| Maggie Gallagher | 4 episodes |
| 1979
| | 1 episode (February 1979 episode 2) |
| 1979–1981
| Herself | 15 episodes |
| 1980–1981
| Soap | Maggie Chandler | 10 episodes |
| 1982
| Marcella Ziller | 1 episode |
| 1984
| Barbara Stevenson | Episode: "Birds of a Feather" |
| 1985
| Cece Wentworth | Episode: "Happily Ever After" |
| 1986
| Maggie Davis | 4 episodes |
| 1988
| Pat Walker | 1 episode |
| 1988
| Flo Oakes | 1 episode |
| 1989
| Jessica Gardner | series regular |
| 1990
| Daphne Dumont | 1 episode |
| 1991
| Det. Loraine McBride | 1 episode |
| 1993
| Marcy Blake | 1 episode |
| 1995
| Marker | Woman | 1 episode |
| 2003
| Kathy McGarity | 1 episode |
| 2011
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0722315|name=Barbara Rhoades}}
- {{tcmdb name|id=160767|name=Barbara Rhoades}}
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Category:Actresses from New York (state)
Category:American film actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:People from Poughkeepsie, New York
Category:20th-century American actresses