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Article: BARBARA BEL GEDDES\ 1922-2005, ACTRESS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2005
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Barbara Bel Geddes, a stage and screen actress who found lasting fame as the saintly matriarch on the long-running TV series "Dallas," has died. She was 82.
Bel Geddes, a longtime smoker, died Monday of lung cancer at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, said a relative.
She decided to take the part of Miss Ellie Ewing on the CBS show that ran from 1978-91 because she was "flat broke" after spending six years caring for her second husband, who died of cancer in 1972.
"She was the glue that held the ship together there," Larry Hagman, who played her son J.R. on "Dallas," said Wednesday. "She was a wonderful woman -- great to work with, great ...