Barbara Bel Geddes in 1940 . Her rise as a 1950s film star. Bel Geddes made her film debut in the 1947 noir The Long Night.Her next film, I Remember Mama (1948), earned her an Academy Award ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Barbara Bel Geddes, the winsome actress who rose to stage and movie stardom but reached her greatest fame as Miss Ellie Ewing in the long-running TV series "Dallas," has died.

Willow Smith, Rob Schneider and more celebrities were born on October 31, Halloween. ... Barbara Bel Geddes was born on October 31, 1922. She died in 2005. October 30, 2024, ...

Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Jim Davis and Charlene Tilton on the set of 'Dallas'. CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection.

Read on to see how Bel Geddes, who died of lung cancer at 82 in 2005, went from ’50s Hollywood ingenue to ’80s TV queen. Barbara Bel Geddes came from an artistic background as her father ...