Barbara Bel Geddes
Biography
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances.
Bel Geddes retired from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005.
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Filmography
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Obsessed with Vertigo
1997
as Self
Our Town
1977
as Mrs. Webb
The Todd Killings
1971
as Mrs. Todd
Summertree
1971
as Ruth
By Love Possessed
1961
as Clarissa Winner
Five Branded Women
1960
as Marja
The Five Pennies
1959
as Wila Stutsman
Vertigo
1958
as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
Fourteen Hours
1951
as Virginia Foster
Panic in the Streets
1950
as Nancy Reed
Caught
1949
as Leonora Eames
Blood on the Moon
1948
as Amy Lufton
I Remember Mama
1948
as Katrin
The Long Night
1947
as Jo Ann