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Dallas Actors I Remember Mama and Barbara Bel Geddes 8.8.05

Barbara Fan

Barbara Fan

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I just wanted to post as usual that August 8th 2005 was the sad day that Barbara Bel Geddes passed away following a diagnosis of Lung cancer, after having suffered from heart problems in the years leading up to her death.

Its my one regret that I never got to meet her during or post Dallas. She was my favourite actress right from the start in 1978

She was one of the more genuine, realistic characters on the show (along with Susan Howard). She was warm, caring and friendly and made Miss Ellie a believable character. I also came to understand she valued her privacy away from the cameras and kept a very low profile all through her life.

She was the most beguiling of actresses, the fact that she didn't need a script to convey what she was feeling made her a class act and a cut above her co stars. I would have loved to see her on Broadway, in the Theatre - her true love. And I guess I hoped she would return to the stage after she hung up her pearls and cardigans as Miss Ellie in 1990. Sadly for fans that never happened as I think she would have been great, back treading the boards, and I would have been on the next flight to NY to see her.

I wish that I had met her and I am grateful to have met Hannah, her granddaughter. I will never forget our meeting in NY and hearing stories about "grandma"

When I heard the news on August 10th that she had died I felt like I had lost a friend, someone I knew, loved and cared about, without ever having met her.

SHE TOUCHED MY LIFE AND MADE A LASTING IMPRESSION ON ME. I WILL NEVER FORGET HER.

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Jock Og

Jock Og

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A lovely tribute @Barbara Fan! Eternal rest to the legendary Barbara Bel Geddes.


Jock joins Ellie on the Southfork patio, as she looks up at the night sky. The rest of the family are out socialising. Ellie is thinking very deeply, one month after her turbulent mastectomy; (a scene from season 2, DVD-3, 1979 - '80):

JOCK: "You all right, Miss Ellie? Get you a sweater or something?"

ELLIE: "No, Jock. Thanks!"

JOCK: "Well, it’s getting kind of nippy out. Be winter soon."

ELLIE: "Too soon."

JOCK: "Well, it’s sure quiet here around tonight. Even Lucy’s out."

ELLIE: "It’s too quiet. I like it better when there’s family around. We’re all drifting apart, Jock. It’s not at all the way I pictured it."

JOCK: "How did you picture it, Miss Ellie?"

ELLIE: "Oh, I don’t know. Seeing it the way it was when the boys were growing up. Only there’d be our grandchildren. The two of us here with the boys and their families. One very large, happy family."

JOCK: "Well, we’ve got Lucy; little baby John, Bobby, J.R. Gary’s doing fine in California. Bobby’s going into business with J.R. It’ll give us more time to be together. To do the things that we’ve talked about and never did."

ELLIE: "Maybe that’s something else we pictured that won’t ever happen."

JOCK: "Why not, Miss Ellie? I loved you all these years and I want to end up my life with you. It’s a time of life that I’ve been looking forward to."

ELLIE: "I wish I could feel that way."

JOCK: "But you should Ellie. No matter what else has happened, we’ve still got each other. Remember that!"

ELLIE: "Not like we used to."
 
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