European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse By Sid Schapiro is new York Bureau they wanted a combination of elegance and sex but they did twant it tawdry. That s How Barbara Bain won the spicy Femme Fatale role of cinnamon she plays with relish on television s hottest suspense series Mission she has an intensely personal style sexy but always Ladylike says Bruce Geller creator and executive producer of the lbs to sophisticated intrigue adventure show going into its third sea son in the fall and seen in More than 30 foreign Bain and Mission impossible won emmy awards to s equivalent of the movies oscars both this year and last year As Best dramatic actress in continuing role and outstanding dra Matic miss Bain is tall ele Gant Graceful with wide set Green eyes Ash blonde hair full lips and magnificent cheekbones. As the sultry Willow cinnamon Carter she s a computer age Mata Hari a thinking Man s the elaborate deceptions by which agents of the impossible missions Force Ifa private espionage outfit out wit the bad Guys she plays a different character each week. It is Many roles in one Barbar related during a visit to new York with her husband and costar Martin Landau whose parents still live in Brooklyn. At the Start of every segment i am Cinna Mon Chic and Well dressed. But Cin Namon has to assume the Guise of Many other has run the Gamut from go go dancer to a nondescript hungarian Secretary in an Iron curtain prison wit several nurse roles in starched uniforms in contrast to the High fashion Ward Robe she wears As cinnamon one of he favorite guises was that of a prewar German Fraulein in a cheap dress bought off the rack in a los Angeles department store basement. The effect was emphasized by a severe Hairdo and no my husband exults Barbara did t recognize me Barbara s enthusiasm for her role extends to the rest of the cast. Beside the multifaceted Landau who also loves the versatility of his role the costars Are Peter Graves if Mastermind Greg Morris electronics wizard an Peter Lupus Strong Man. Graves is the brother of James Arness Star Oft s oddly the fearless five operate on the wrong Side of the Law in combating the evildoers of the world. They lie cheat steal Kidnap and blackmail. But we almost never kill anybody says miss Bain cheerfully. We re big time Confidence artists who con our enemies into killing each if is called upon by an undisclosed government Agency to undertake mis Sions so hazardous they Are labelled impossible. Every week the intrepid mis Sion impossible super agents get layout on a limb during an ingenious plot which keeps viewers nibbling on their fingernails. Each hour Long episode opens with a taped voice telling the group its Mission and then the tape self destructs in five seconds. The fantastic if never goofs accomplishing its assignments by ingenuity not gimmicks. There is very Little shooting relatively Little violence. The aristocratic looking charming Cinna Mon never uses judo of course just plots Are Complex but plausible and the suspense comes because the de Vious villains change plans or make a series is realistic action Barbara emphasized. The ending Mustbe logical. After it s All Over a husband Kipust be Able to turn to his wife and Jay you mow they could have actually pulled it off that Way using the cover it an alluring Model Barbara cinnamon functions principally diversion alluring to men but Ferent villains require different divisions. Ulvin one week she s out to captivate a Mao the world that Means Pitavin up Cool. For a Man who is Gross her syn becomes overt and for an aggressive Man she remains demure in one role pretending to be Neo nazi cinnamon could not win by being sensual and Lovely and feminine but by being totally dedicate to his Barbara Bain As cinnamon Carter sexy but always l Hough delighted with her show Wii Ning two emmy awards this sea Barbara was More ecstatic Over four emmy prizes Mission impossible won last year Best actress standing dramatic series will achievement and film sound editing. That s quite a lot of acknowledgement for a first season she con. Rented. We re very proud of it. We Visbeen very High on the show from to beginning about the Quality of 1scripts, the production everything Landau who also was nominal twice for an emmy lost out in to Competition for Best dramatic actor. Getting the award for Best actress in a continuing role was a big Surpris to me Barbara said. Martin by Totime already knew he had to and i was very very pleased for me. I very apparent in his one of Barbara s favorite stories about working with her husband happened the Day they were shooting a sequence in which Landau played Adolf Hitler. He played Hitler with makeup realistically in one scene she recalled that when he came through the do screaming at a High pitched frenzy suddenly found myself Landau have been married 11 Wasl door Good in the with chinese dishes. Himself Taw two a. Susan 7, by w iw1 a rely live in Westwood ,1957. It All Over again with a rabbi mar tin said. That made a lot of parents neither one will forget the open mouthed astonishment of the elevator operator who took them Down in route to the second ceremony. They had lived together in the apartment building for 10 Days now Here was Barbara wearing a White bridal gown and veil. Barbara is one of those overnight discoveries who has been acting for 10years in theater and television. She per formed on the stage in miss Julie desire under the elms the wed Ding breakfast and other new Yor plays. She has made guest appearances on such to series As the Dick Vandyke show Kraft theater studio one and other to performances. Landau was an artist and newspaper cartoonist before entert agacs studio and becoming one of to s Misi Esi Liidi Acter actors he s had some Choice parts in a number of films and Broad Way does Barbara like working every Day with her husband at the television studio in mid Hollywood it s a wonderful situation Shew it so to work at 6 15 . And Mai tin drive Over about an hour later because men Don t need so much tune in the makeup department. Or Sqq no we have breakfast in our dressing rooms which Are right next to each other and then put in a 12-Hoin Clay. She said it eliminates the question Whit kind of Day did you have Deai Barbara was graduated from Hyde k High school in Chicago and Goti a degree in sociology from the University Onich noise e went to new York to study mod-1 1 a Nee but found a career As a h a Hion Model More lucrative soon f classic futures and svelte 5-foot-7�,i appearing in the top magazines devoted to haute couture.3 by she could never become totally committed to her work remarking. I s consider a four hour discussion of lipstick shades then she enrolled in dramatic school on an Barbara found a new career and husband meeting Landau in that first acting class. .1 he dismissed me As a dumb Shal Low blonde Model she recalled. Thought he was arrogant crude and rude a week later at a party we got talking solved All the world s problems and discovered we weren t like that at were married a year or so later. In fact they were wed twice. The first Barbara yith husband Martin Landau in on of Mission impossible episodes. 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