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Dallas Actors I Remember Barbara Bel Geddes 8.8.05

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I just wanted to post that August 8th was the sad day that Barbara Bel Geddes passed away following a diagnosis of Lung cancer.

Its my one regret that I never got to meet her during or post Dallas.

Thankfully she has left a wonderful legacy behind both on TV and film, and I'm sure many more generations will appreciate her talents.

I regret the loss of the old Forum and all the wonderful tributes made about her, at the time of her death. I hope she knew how much she was loved.

Im grateful to own 3 of her scrap books from her early years on stage and film and was cool to meet her granddaughter for lunch in NYC. I wish she enjoyed her fame more and wasnt so elusive and reclusive in her later years though.

RIP BBG x

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LMLDallas78

LMLDallas78

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Nice tribute. I bet she was a truly wonderful woman to know. She seemed such a laugh when seeing her in the Dallas bloopers and brought such an air of ordinary to her role.
Not that her acting was ordinary of course, she was a marvellous actress that never tried too hard but nailed every scene, well maybe not so good at acting drunk!

Total respect for her remaining very private and never interviewed during her time on Dallas. There's only one very brief interview on YouTube about Hitchcock I think. There is a blink and you'll miss it clip of her and the rest of the cast taking part in some show and they're seen holding flags, which I've seen on a music video. I'd love to know what show that was if anyone knows.

Cast members have always spoken highly of her and you can tell she was very much respected by them and no doubt by her fans.
 
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LMLDallas78 said:
rest of the cast taking part in some show and they're seen holding flags,
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Thats the Dinah Shore show / ? 79 - Id kill to see the whole thing

In one Dallas documentary True Hollywood story - they show a few clips for D S show and she is asked why they took the job in Dallas and says "I needed a job and I needed to make some money"

And larry chips in Lets hear it for money

The other clip she is asked what her friends and fans think about Dalllas and she replies "they say you dont say very much, why dont you ask the producers to give you more dialogue"

Think they all had a bit to drink and jim Davis a little too much and ended up with his hand up Dinahs skirt! As Larry said, we werent asked back to Dinahs place !!

I bought a bootleg copy from a Canadian many years ago!!

She is also interviewed on a Good morning USA breakfast TV show and appears with her bike but doesnt say an awful lot and far lengthier interiews with everyone else

Think Barbara Currans book says she looked like she would rather have root canal surgery than be interviewed!!
 
LMLDallas78

LMLDallas78

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Barbara Fan said:
Thats the Dinah Shore show / ? 79 - Id kill to see the whole thing

In one Dallas documentary True Hollywood story - they show a few clips for D S show and she is asked why they took the job in Dallas and says "I needed a job and I needed to make some money"

And larry chips in Lets hear it for money

The other clip she is asked what her friends and fans think about Dalllas and she replies "they say you dont say very much, why dont you ask the producers to give you more dialogue"

Think they all had a bit to drink and jim Davis a little too much and ended up with his hand up Dinahs skirt! As Larry said, we werent asked back to Dinahs place
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Yes that's it thank you! From the little research I did I thought it was the Dinah Shore show. Oohh I would absolutely love to see that too. What a shame it's not online, sounds fabulous.

I recently found a short clip which you're probably aware of, with some of the cast (Larry, Linda, Steve, Charlene & Victoria) on an American game show family feuds like our family fortunes (no Barbara though) They look so young (1979 I think) Lovely to watch.
 
southfork88

southfork88

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I recall in a special behind-the-scenes of Rodeo episode (Dream Season - 1985-1986), Barbara Bel Geddes tells of being happy to be part of the cast of Dallas, but that she accepted mainly for money. At the end of the interview she smiles and nods her head, as she also loved to do in the role of Miss Ellie.
 
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Episode 4 of Prisoner Cell Block H actually references Barbara's film Five Branded Women, when Chrissie Latham is attacked by Bea Smith for Bill Jackson's murder.

Bea points out that Five Branded Women was the film the inmates watched one week.
 
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