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Were Barbara Eden and Frank Puglia in A & C Meet the Mummy?


Could that dancer with the snakelike hands, coming out of the giant jar at the end of the film, be Barbara Eden? She would have been 24 at the time. And the waiter in the restaurant who serves Abbott and Costello, who is terrified of the curse of the medallion -- he looks awfully familiar, as if I've seen him in a hundred movies with Middle Eastern character actors. He reminds me a bit of Frank Puglia who plays the traitorous Prince Cassim in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944). Or maybe he reminds me of Fortunio Bonanova, who plays Old Baba in the same film.

Any thoughts on either of these actors/parts?

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Googling Barbara Eden, and checking her IMDB bio, indicates that she probably was not that dancer. Interestingly, one of the heavies in the flick, Michael Ansara was soon to become her first husband,

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