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==Early life== Feldon was born Barbara Anne Hall in [[Butler, Pennsylvania]], part of the [[Greater Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh metropolitan area]].<ref>{{cite interview | url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/barbara-feldon?clip=85314#interview-clips | title=Barbara Feldon | interviewer=Jim Colucci | date=October 22, 2007 | publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|Television Academy]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thewallbreakers.com/whatever-happened-to-barbara-feldon/|title=The Wall Breaker Interviews|website=Thewallbreakers.com|date=March 26, 2013|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=August 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810095832/http://thewallbreakers.com/whatever-happened-to-barbara-feldon/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Feldon and her older sister Patricia were the daughters of Raymond Dorsey<ref>["Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Z-DYNL : Fri Feb 23 18:33:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Raymond Dorsey Hall and R D Hall, 16 Feb 1942.]</ref> and Julia Stewart Hall.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ilovegetsmart.com/articles/tvrm-1266.html | title=Aunt Barbara is a Softie | first=Paul | last=Denis | work=TV Radio Mirror | date=December 1966}}</ref> She graduated from [[Bethel Park High School]] and trained at [[Pittsburgh Playhouse]].<ref>Conner, Lynne (2007). ''Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater''. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 152; {{ISBN|978-0-8229-4330-3}}. Retrieved June 6, 2011.</ref> In 1955, she graduated from [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Institute of Technology]] with a Bachelor of Arts in drama. She was initiated into the Delta Xi chapter of [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]]. In 1957, she won the grand prize on ''[[The $64,000 Question]]'' in the category of [[William Shakespeare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/shows/64000-question-aka-64000-challenge#|title=$64,000 Question aka $64,000 Challenge|website=Emmytvlegends.org|date=October 22, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2013/07/05/barbara-feldon-and-the-64000-question/|title=Barbara Feldon and 'The $64,000 Question'|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|url-access=subscription|date=July 5, 2013}}</ref>
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