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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 335424" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>Recasting Miss Ellie was utterly pointless --- just as recasting Amanda Carrington in Season 7 of DYNASTY was pointless, albeit differently so I'd say. Donna Reed, an award-winning film and television actress, was no match for Barbara Bel Geddes as Ewing matriarch Miss Ellie. The argument that Miss Ellie was too essential to DALLAS --- which, in fairness, she was a major player, at least for a while --- didn't really hold up when Reed's screen time was almost immediately sliced right after her initial appearance on the show. If they were going to treat Reed so shabbily (which I'd like to think wasn't their intention), then she shouldn't have been hired. And, even when they probably knew Bel Geddes was going to return, they sign Reed on for two more years. It was all a pointless, head-scratching mess.</p></blockquote><p></p>