60 years ago, Barbara Eden‘s sassy genie materialized out of her bottle and onto our TV screens, when I Dream of Jeannie debuted on September 18, 1965. Jeannie eventually came to share a home ...

But beyond its use as a plot device, the bottle was both Jeannie’s living room and a prison of sorts. It was the place where, as a 2,000-year-old genie, she went to escape the pressures of ...