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Did Donna Reed's Miss Ellie have any redeeming features?
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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 388894" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>Quite true. Until this point, DALLAS was a remarkably sure footed show; some things to quibble about, of course, but nothing deeply flawed. From this point on, there's increasingly more wrong than right with the show.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to Bel Geddes vs Reed comparison, I always think it was well covered by TV critic Michael McWilliams in the book TV SIRENS (1987).</p><p></p><p><em>Donna Reed's life ended on a particularly sad note. Dumped from DALLAS just before her death, she sued the producers, seeming like an embittered and desolated TV diva. Public sympathy with her (deservedly), but one cruel fact remained: the role of Miss Ellie belongs to Barbara Bel Geddes. A respected and pampered Broadway Baby, Bel Geddes strikes the perfect balance between patrician snootiness and tough-minded naturalism. She looks like a queen of the Old-New South -- you could drive a tractor through the creases in her face. But Reed played the part like a PTA chairwoman from Orange County. Her unctuous dignity embalmed her later work ...</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 388894, member: 5079"] Quite true. Until this point, DALLAS was a remarkably sure footed show; some things to quibble about, of course, but nothing deeply flawed. From this point on, there's increasingly more wrong than right with the show. When it comes to Bel Geddes vs Reed comparison, I always think it was well covered by TV critic Michael McWilliams in the book TV SIRENS (1987). [I]Donna Reed's life ended on a particularly sad note. Dumped from DALLAS just before her death, she sued the producers, seeming like an embittered and desolated TV diva. Public sympathy with her (deservedly), but one cruel fact remained: the role of Miss Ellie belongs to Barbara Bel Geddes. A respected and pampered Broadway Baby, Bel Geddes strikes the perfect balance between patrician snootiness and tough-minded naturalism. She looks like a queen of the Old-New South -- you could drive a tractor through the creases in her face. But Reed played the part like a PTA chairwoman from Orange County. Her unctuous dignity embalmed her later work ...[/I] [/QUOTE]
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