Article: OBITUARY: Barbara Bel Geddes.(Features)

WHEN she took her bestknown role in 1978, it was because she was 'flat broke', so Barbara Bel Geddes was surprised to find herself soon epitomised as the matriarch of a Texas oil family.

Before the US hit television series Dallas made her a household name, she had built up a short but distinguished Hollywood resumA and had an accomplished stage career.

Born in 1922, the daughter of noted designer and producer Norman Melancton Geddes made her theatrical debut in 1940, first appeared on Broadway in 1941 and landed her first film role in 1947.

Over the following decades she appeared in numerous television, stage and movie roles, nominated for an ...

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