Actress Barbara Bel Geddes, 82
Posted: Monday, April 11th, 2005 6:02 am
Barbara Bel Geddes, who played Miss Ellie Ewing in the long-running TV series “Dallas,” died Monday of lung cancer in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She was 82.
Bel Geddes, daughter of renowned industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes, was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress for the 1948 drama “I Remember Mama” and was the original Maggie the Cat on Broadway in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Coming out of retirement because she needed money following her husband’s long illness, which depleted her savings, Bel Geddes won an Emmy in 1980 for her role in “Dallas” as best lead actress in a drama series and remains the only nighttime soap star to be so honored. …
In 1946, she signed a contract with RKO that granted her unusual request to be committed to only one picture a year. In her first movie, she co-starred with Henry Fonda in “The Long Night”… Read full obituary
