Barbara Rhoades

Barbara Rhoades (born March 23, 1946)[1] 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). She had a recurring role on Soap, as Maggie Chandler, Jodie Dallas' future wife.
== Early years ==
Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, Rhoades is the daughter of Sherry Rhoades. She attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School.[2] She began taking dancing lessons when she was 7 years old.[3]
== Career ==
Rhoades began acting in the late 1960s, appearing in guest roles on several television series, including It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Mannix, McMillan and Wife,Columbo, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Alias Smith and Jones, Love, American Style, The Odd Couple, The Six Million Dollar Man, Maude, Trapper John, M.D., Murder, She Wrote 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[4]
In 1967, Rhoades signed a long-term exclusive contract with Universal Pictures.[5]
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). In 2007, she appeared in First Born with Elisabeth Shue.[6]
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). She was also a frequent panelist on the popular game show Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn.[6]
For 18 months[5] on Broadway, Rhoades had the role of a showgirl in the musical Funny Girl (1964).[7] She gained other stage experience in summer stock productions at the Cecilwood Theater in Fishkill, New York.[5]
== Personal life ==
Rhoades married Bernie Orenstein, a television producer.[8]
== Filmography ==
Film 	Film 	Film 	Film
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1968 	The Shakiest Gun in the West	Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings	
1968 	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 	
1973 	Little Cigars 	Helen 	Credited 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	Television 	Television 	Television
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1968 	The Virginian 	Josie 	Episode: "With Help from Ulysses"
1968 	It Takes a Thief 	Hilda 	Episode: "A Spot of Trouble"
1968 	Mannix 	Billie 	1 episode
1969 	Love, American Style 	Bunny 	Season 1, Episode 2, Vignette: "Love and the Unlikely Couple"
Credited as Barbara Rhodes
1970 	The Partridge Family 	La Von 	Episode: "Danny and the Mob"
1971 	Bewitched 	Aretha 	Episode: "The House That Uncle Arthur Built "
1972 	McCloud 	Susan 	Episode: "Give My Regrets to Broadway"
1972 	Mission: Impossible 	Vicki Wells 	1 episode
1972–1973 	McMillan and Wife 	 	4 episodes
1973 	Kojak 	Joanna Ferro 	Episode: "Web of Death"
1973 	Night Gallery 	Julie 	Episode: "Something in the Woodwork"
1974 	Happy Days 	Bubbles McCall 	Episode: "The Skin Game"
1974 	The Odd Couple 	Lucy 	Episode: "Our Fathers"
1974 	Nakia 	Jackie Thayer 	Episode: "Roots of Anger"
1975 	Petrocelli 	Virginia Halima 	1 episode
1975 	Ellery Queen 	Veronica Vale 	1 episode
1975 	Columbo 	Joyce 	Episode: "Identity Crisis"
1975 	Starsky and Hutch 	Robin Morton 	Episode: "Shootout"
1976 	The Blue Knight 	Carrie 	4 episodes
1976 	Sanford and Son 	Gladys 	3 episodes
1977 	Busting Loose 	Melody Feebeck 	Regular (21 episodes)
1977 	Match Game 	Herself ('77-'82) 	
1978 	Quark 	Princess Carna 	Episode: "The Old and the Beautiful"
1978 	The Love Boat 	Di Di Donnelly 	1 episode
1978 	Maude 	Maggie Gallagher 	1 episode
1978 	The Eddie Capra Mysteries 	Alicia 	Episode "Murder! Murder!"
1979 	Hanging In 	Maggie Gallagher 	4 episodes
1979–1981 	Password Plus 	Herself 	15 episodes
1980–1981 	Soap 	Maggie Chandler 	10 episodes
1982 	Magnum, P.I. 	Marcella Ziller 	1 episode
1984 	Murder, She Wrote 	Barbara Stevenson 	1 episode
1985 	Cagney & Lacey 	Cece Wentworth 	1 episode
1986 	You Again? 	Maggie Davis 	4 episodes
1988 	Charles in Charge 	Pat Walker 	1 episode
1989 	Generations 	Jessica Gardner 	series regular
1990 	Father Dowling Mysteries 	Daphne Dumont 	1 episode
1991 	Over My Dead Body 	Det. Loraine McBride 	1 episode
1993 	Diagnosis Murder 	Marcy Blake 	1 episode
1995 	Marker 	Woman 	1 episode
2003 	Law & Order 	Kathy McGarity 	1 episode
2011 	One Life to Live 	Irene Manning 	
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