Barbara Bel Geddes

1922–2005 · American actress

Barbara Bel Geddes was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades. She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Bel Geddes was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas, while her notable films included I Remember Mama (1948) and Vertigo (1958). In theatre, she is best remembered as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.

Barbara Bel Geddes, in order

1. 1947 The Long Night: acted · directed by Anatole Litvak
2. 1948 Blood on the Moon: acted · directed by Robert Wise
3. 1948 I Remember Mama: acted · directed by George Stevens
4. 1949 Caught: acted · directed by Max Ophüls
5. 1950 Panic in the Streets: acted · directed by Elia Kazan · critics 96%, audiences 77%
6. 1951 Fourteen Hours: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
7. 1958 Vertigo: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 95%, audiences 92%
8. 1959 The Five Pennies: acted · directed by Melville Shavelson
9. 1960 Five Branded Women: acted · directed by Martin Ritt
10. 1961 By Love Possessed: acted · directed by John Sturges
11. 1971 Summertree: acted · directed by Anthony Newley · streaming on Roku Channel, Tubi
12. 1978 Dallas (TV series): acted · directed by Alexander Singer and Bruce Bilson