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Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades. She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Bel Geddes was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas, while her…
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entertainment · American actress (1922–2005) · television actor · film actor · writer · stage actor · children's writer · actor · also Barbara Bel Geddes, Geddes
Born 31 October 1922 · Died 8 August 2005 · Q232421
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 9,860 Wikipedia readers in one day, 16× the usual 618, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Life after Dallas
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2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Barbara Bel Geddes
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Yahoo: Barbara Bel Geddes Went From ‘Vertigo’ to ‘Dallas’— Her Amazing Story
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2012· 1 entry
Patrick Duffy (who played her youngest son, Bobby, in the original series) said: "Barbara is a big piece of our history, and it's important to me to honor her
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2005· 2 entries
At her estate in Northeast Harbor, Maine, at the age of 82 and her ashes were scattered from a simple wooden boat into the harbor waters bordering her estate
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Died 2005-08-08.
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1990· 1 entry
And settled in her homes in Northeast Harbor, Maine, and Putnam Valley, New York, where she continued to work as an artist
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1985· 1 entry
Also received Germany's Golden Camera Award
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1983· 1 entry
Only days after she had completed filming for the 1982–1983 season, Bel Geddes narrowly avoided a heart attack when her doctor discovered a condition that required emergency quadruple bypass surgery
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Dallas (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
Bel Geddes was the first actor signed to star in Dallas
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1977· 1 entry
Starred in the highly acclaimed production of the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town with Hal Holbrook
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1971· 1 entry
Bel Geddes underwent a radical mastectomy, which was an experience that she relived while playing Miss Ellie in the 1979–1980 season of Dallas
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1967· 1 entry
Bel Geddes suspended her career to care for him; he died in 1972
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1958· 1 entry
Alfred Hitchcock cast her with James Stewart in Vertigo as the long-suffering bohemian, Midge
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1955· 1 entry
Created the role of Maggie "The Cat" in Elia Kazan's original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and in 1961 created the title role in the Jean Kerr comedy Mary, Mary which became Broad
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1952).
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Was presented with the prestigious Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award from America's oldest theater company, Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals; in 1993, having appeared in 15 Broadway productions, she
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1946).
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1922· 2 entries
Born 1922-10-31.
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In New York City, the daughter of Helen Belle (née Schneider; 1891–1938) and stage and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)
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