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Did Donna Reed's Miss Ellie have any redeeming features?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 388927" data-attributes="member: 46"><p>This part is particularly true. Barbara just nailed the part of Miss Ellie down to a tee in terms of Miss Ellie's family background and how that affects her outlook on life. She wasn't merely an oil baron's wife. The people who complain about Miss Ellie's dress sense don't understand what Barbara was doing, and don't understand how Barbara was making Miss Ellie a very strong unique character with her roots in the Texas land first and foremost, which was then combined with her being the wife of a big oil baron but never losing her ranching roots or leaving them behind in terms of her life outlook. That attitude, conflict and compromise between Southworth-Ewing is a huge part of what made the conflicts inside and outside the Ewing family work so well, i.e. what made Dallas tick as a series for years on end along with the Barnes-Ewing feud.</p><p></p><p>With Donna Reed, suddenly Miss Ellie's ranching past is just a past heritage, long distant. This Miss Ellie is much more a typical oil baron's wife. But where's the conflict, tension, teasing etc. inside the Ewing family once this happens? It's not there, there's much less emotion from Miss Ellie that stems not from Donna Reed's abilities as an actress, but how Donna viewed the character of Miss Ellie, a deep contrast to how Barbara Bel Geddes viewed Miss Ellie. Barbara understood the very heart of the Miss Ellie character, and brought her to life in a huge way.</p><p></p><p></p><p>All the actors on Dallas were behind Larry Hagman in 1980 on those contract negotiations. Larry made sure that he was out of the US on 21 March 1980, when the episode where J.R. was shot aired in the US on CBS, by going to Britain. Larry said that this had the bosses chasing him all over the place, instead of him being put under pressure that would have happened had he been in the US at the time. Larry reasoned that Dallas couldn't carry on without J.R. Ewing at that point, and most likely not without Larry Hagman in the role of J.R. Ewing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 388927, member: 46"] This part is particularly true. Barbara just nailed the part of Miss Ellie down to a tee in terms of Miss Ellie's family background and how that affects her outlook on life. She wasn't merely an oil baron's wife. The people who complain about Miss Ellie's dress sense don't understand what Barbara was doing, and don't understand how Barbara was making Miss Ellie a very strong unique character with her roots in the Texas land first and foremost, which was then combined with her being the wife of a big oil baron but never losing her ranching roots or leaving them behind in terms of her life outlook. That attitude, conflict and compromise between Southworth-Ewing is a huge part of what made the conflicts inside and outside the Ewing family work so well, i.e. what made Dallas tick as a series for years on end along with the Barnes-Ewing feud. With Donna Reed, suddenly Miss Ellie's ranching past is just a past heritage, long distant. This Miss Ellie is much more a typical oil baron's wife. But where's the conflict, tension, teasing etc. inside the Ewing family once this happens? It's not there, there's much less emotion from Miss Ellie that stems not from Donna Reed's abilities as an actress, but how Donna viewed the character of Miss Ellie, a deep contrast to how Barbara Bel Geddes viewed Miss Ellie. Barbara understood the very heart of the Miss Ellie character, and brought her to life in a huge way. All the actors on Dallas were behind Larry Hagman in 1980 on those contract negotiations. Larry made sure that he was out of the US on 21 March 1980, when the episode where J.R. was shot aired in the US on CBS, by going to Britain. Larry said that this had the bosses chasing him all over the place, instead of him being put under pressure that would have happened had he been in the US at the time. Larry reasoned that Dallas couldn't carry on without J.R. Ewing at that point, and most likely not without Larry Hagman in the role of J.R. Ewing. [/QUOTE]
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