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Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost 5 decades. She was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas .
After Bel Geddes recovered and unexpectedly expressed a desire to return to the role for the 1985–86 season, Reed was abruptly fired. [29] She sued in an attempt to stop the production of Dallas while she negotiated to be reinstated as Miss Ellie. [29] Reed then sued for breach of contract, later settling out of court for over $1 million. [30]
Following the series' cancellation in early 1978, he got his big break in the role of Bobby Ewing, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman, on the prime-time soap opera Dallas. [5] The show became a worldwide success. Despite its success, Duffy opted to leave the series in 1985 with his character being killed off onscreen.
The character of Miss Ellie appeared on Dallas in almost every episode of the series, with the exception of the final season, for a total of 300 episodes, 276 episodes played by Barbara Bel Geddes, and 24 episodes played by Donna Reed. Miss Ellie's storylines focus on her family's troubles.
In 1984, co-star Barbara Bel Geddes left Dallas, following a contract dispute that had resulted from her March 1983 quadruple heart bypass surgery. At one point, Hagman suggested to his real-life mother Mary Martin that she play Miss Ellie, but she rejected the suggestion and Bel Geddes was briefly replaced by Donna Reed for the 1984–1985 ...
The film stars Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Debra Paget. It also marked the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who appear in small roles. [1] The screenplay was written by John Paxton based on an article by Joel Sayre in The New Yorker describing the 1938 suicide of John William Warde.
John Ross "Jock" Ewing Sr. (1909–1982) is a fictional character in the American television series Dallas created by David Jacobs.Jock was played by Jim Davis in the show's first four seasons from 1978 to 1981, and as a young man by Dale Midkiff in the made-for-TV movie prequel The Early Years in 1986.
Barbara Bel Geddes as Lucia Clay, Michael Rennie as Allen Bliss March 16, 1958 ( 1958-03-16 ) Twenty-six-year-old Lucia Clay (Bel Geddes) is haunted by the sound of a foghorn and cannot recall why, though she is comforted by a nun (Howard) and a doctor (Henry).