Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 - August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie. Her notable films included Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and I Remember Mama (1948). She was the recipient of several acting awards and nominations throughout her career.
Bel Geddes was born in New York City, the daughter of Helen Belle (née Schneider) and stage and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes. She married theatrical manager Carl Sawyer (aka Carl Schreuer) in 1944; they had one daughter, Susan. They divorced in 1951. Later that year, she married stage director Windsor Lewis with whom she had a daughter, Betsy. When Lewis became ill in 1967, Bel Geddes suspended her career to care for him until his death in 1972.
Bel Geddes came to prominence in the 1946 Broadway production of Deep Are The Roots. The performance garnered her the Clarence Derwent Award, and the Donaldson Award (forerunner of the Tony Awards) presented to her by Laurette Taylor, for "Outstanding Achievement in The Theatre". From 1951 to 1953, Bel Geddes played 924 performances of the Otto Preminger hit comedy The Moon Is Blue. In 1956, she created the role of Maggie "The Cat" in Elia Kazan's original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and in 1961 created the title role in the Jean Kerr comedy Mary, Mary which became Broadway's longest-running show with over 1,500 performances. Both roles earned her Tony Award nominations. Other highlights include John Steinbeck's Burning Bright, Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden and Silent Night, Lonely Night with Henry Fonda.
Jim Davis (August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap Dallas, a role which continued almost until his death.
Born as Marlin Davis in Edgerton, Missouri, his first major screen role was opposite Bette Davis in the 1948 melodrama Winter Meeting, a lavish failure for which he was lambasted in the press as being too inexperienced to play the part properly. His subsequent film career consisted of mostly B movies, many of them westerns, although he made an impression as a U.S. senator in the Warren Beatty conspiracy thriller The Parallax View. In the episode "Little Washington" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, Davis portrayed a Congressman from Nevada. He married his wife, Blanche Davis (1918-2009). in 1945; their only child, daughter Tara Diane Davis, was killed in a car crash in 1970.[citation needed]
From 1954-55, Davis starred and narrated the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century. He portrayed Matt Clark, a detective for the Southwestern Railroad who works to bring notorious gunfighters to justice. His costars were Mary Castle and Kristine Miller. Stories of the Century was the first western series to win an Emmy Award. Among the historical figures featured were John Wesley Hardin, Sam Bass, Doc Holliday, the Dalton Brothers, the Younger Brothers, Belle Starr, L.H. Musgrove, and Clay Allison.
Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.
Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1973–75). She received further recognition for her performances in the films The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Little Night Music (1977), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), Hanover Street (1979), Sphinx (1981) and Nomads (1986). She is also known as Madeline Fabray LaMotte Main in miniseries North and South (1985–86), for which she was nominated for Golden Globe Awards in 1986.
In 1990, Down played the role Stephanie Rogers in the CBS drama series Dallas. During 1997–99 she played Olivia Blake in the NBC series Sunset Beach. Since April 2003 to February 2012, she has portrayed Jackie Marone Knight in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Down was born in Wandsworth, London. She began acting and modelling, and in her teenage years had won several beauty pageants. She was voted Britain's most beautiful teenager at the age of fifteen.
Dallas is an American soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The series won four Emmy Awards, including a 1980 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series win for Barbara Bel Geddes.
Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing. The show also starred stage/screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes as family matriarch Miss Ellie, and movie Western actor Jim Davis in his last role as Ewing patriarch Jock Ewing before his death in 1981.
The show debuted on April 2, 1978 as a five-part miniseries on the CBS network, and producers originally thought that would be it. But, because the popularity was so high, the show then was subsequently turned into a regular series and was broadcast for thirteen more seasons from September 23, 1978 to May 3, 1991. However, the first five episodes (originally viewed as a miniseries) are now considered to be the "first" season--so in all the series had fourteen seasons. Dallas was included in Time magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." By the time the show concluded in 1991 it had become one of the longest lasting primetime dramas in TV history...second only to Gunsmoke and Law & Order, which both tie as the longest lasting TV dramas with twenty seasons for each show. Dallas' spinoff Knots Landing also lasted the same number of seasons--fourteen. The show was also famous for its cliffhangers, including the "Who shot J.R.?" mystery, and the "Dream Season", in which the entirety of season eight was revealed to have been a dream of one of the characters.
Dallas is a long running American prime time television soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The show was famous for its cliffhangers, including the "Who shot J.R.?" mystery, and the "Dream Season", in which the entirety of season nine was revealed to have been a dream of one of the characters.
The original miniseries from 1978 is now presented as "Season 1" in keeping with the initial release on DVD in 2004, although originally Season 1 officially began with episode that aired on September 23, 1978. This article has been reformatted to list episodes by the current convention rather than original designation. Over its 14 seasons, 357 episodes and 4 made-for-television movies and reunion specials aired.
A game of chess no one can win.
Plot
Prime Alexander is a professional athlete living the life most men dream of. He has a huge guaranteed contract, beautiful women chasing him and the best friends a man could ask for. He's used to getting what he wants, when he wants it and doesn't believe in explaining himself to anyone, especially Autumn, the beautiful woman he's been dating for a little over a year. Autumn Singletary is a wealthy socialite who doesn't understand the word no. Her relationship with Prime has more to do with appearances than real feelings but that's of no consequence when Prime decides to end their relationship by publicly humiliating her in the presence of his new interest, Skylar. The bond Prime shares with his boys, Lonzo, Kalif and Dallas has been nurtured throughout the years as the main constant in their life. They are always together. They are always taking care of each other. They are a true pact and have the secrets and the code to prove it. 1080 for life. Lonzo, Prime's very best friend, is an actor on the verge of being the next big thing. He's falling in love with the beautiful Katalina, one of Autumn's best girlfriends. He believes he's at the age where he needs to think about settling down and look to his parents' marriage as inspiration. Kalif is the youngest of the crew and is seriously addicted to women, especially his fiancé, Shanita. He's a hot A&R; executive and his career allows him the flexibility to juggle multiple women. Kalif and Shanita have been together since their early teenage years and she's the love of his life. He's messed up a few times and has children by other women to prove it. He truly loves Shanita more than anything in the world and he couldn't imagine life without her so he takes all of the steps necessary to make sure she's happy and doesn't go looking for anything. Dallas is a super arrogant playboy without a care in the world who prides himself on the chase. Women are a game for him and he likes to take his time. He loves the strategic nature of the hunt and plays the game a little too well. A chance encounter gives Autumn the ammunition she needs to create an unlikely alliance by which to shut Prime down and she doesn't give a damn who gets hurt. As a woman scorned, she was out for revenge. By forming a coalition, she proved she'd show no mercy. Everyone always wants the riches and the fame professional athletes have. "The Coalition" shows us that all that glitters is certainly not ideal and forces us to question how difficult love is within the confines of the industry and all that money can buy.
Keywords: intrigue, suspense
There's more than one player in this game. But who's playing who?
When the players get played, revenge is oh so sweet.
In space no one can hear you strill (nemmen if you strill fort)
Plot
After hearing about the unexpected death of an ambitious friend, two polar opposite siblings travel across the country to attend his funeral in an isolated Arizona mountain town. Along the way, their plans go awry after hooking up with a mysterious old flame. These unexpected events threaten to tear their sanity sunder. Relationships will come to a head and start anew. Nothing will be the same for them again.
Plot
A young man and his unconventional mentor attempt to heal the scars of the past while barreling towards the truth of who it has turned them into. It is a story about love and the uncomfortable situations we must face to feel it.
If you know something, say it out loud, like you're giving it in the air a place to live.
Some things never change. Some things change you.
Plot
Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.
Keywords: adrenaline, alpinist, avalanche, bare-butt, base-camp, based-on-play, bathing, broken-leg, climbing, expedition
Between the earth and the sky lies the sheer face of adventure.
Taylor Brooks: If you ask me, it costs too much.::Harold: What?::Taylor Brooks: Love. It's way overpriced.
Harold: It's beautiful::Taylor Brooks: Course it's beautiful, did you think I'd take you to an ugly mountain?
Taylor Brooks: [to Harold] H! Fuck the rules!::[starts climbing a building]
Harold: What about, uh, Dallas? What's his name? What's his problem?::Taylor Brooks: Dallas Woolf. We went to Law School together. He was good in the classroom... I was better in the courtroom. There's no contest in the bedroom!
Harold: [Harold and Taylor are in a tent] Hey Taylor, you awake?::Taylor Brooks: No.
Taylor Brooks: Mrs. Perkins, dinner tonight?::Pam Perkins: What about it?::Taylor Brooks: Have it with me.::Pam Perkins: No.::Taylor Brooks: C'mon! Why not?::Pam Perkins: Look Mr. Brooks, I already have a date.::Taylor Brooks: Break it! Overtime.::Pam Perkins: Thanks. But I nerver shit where I eat.::Taylor Brooks: Oooh. I wasn't aware, Mrs. Perkins, you shit at all!
Taylor Brooks: You climatizing, Harold?::Harold: Good news or bad news when you bleed from your ears?::Taylor Brooks: Good news.
Taylor Brooks: What the Hell is goin' on?::Phillip Claiborne: Just lost the porters.::Takane Shimuzu: What are we going to do now?::Taylor Brooks: Fuck them. We don't need them, we are taking by ourselves.::Dallas Woolf: That's 7 tons of gear. When you wanna do this, before or after you get dressed?
Taylor Brooks: I didn't make the world the way it is, Harold. I'm just trying to get through it, as fast and as clean as possible.::Harold: [after staring straight at him for 5 seconds] We ALL make the world the way it is.::Taylor Brooks: Yeah, well, we know who made this. [Taylor tosses his unfinished bowl of oatmeal into the pot and exits the tent]
Plot
Ace Hunter is the leader of Megaforce, an elite group of American soldiers who travel the world to fight Evil. In this case, Evil is represented by a third rate dictator who they must blow to bits.
Keywords: airplane, airplane-accident, asian-american, battle, battlefield, card-game, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, combat, commander
When the force was with them, NO-ONE stood a chance!
There has never been a superhero like ACE HUNTER!
Deeds Not Words
[As Eggstrum approaches.]::Ace Hunter: Here comes The Egg...::Dallas: And that's no "yolk."::Eggstrum: Dallas, when a person doesn't have less on, they have...?::Dallas: "More on"?::Eggstrum: Exactly.
Ace Hunter: Well, there are reasons for everything we do, Major.::Major Zara: And do they include leaving your guests to bake in the middle of the desert, greeted by a cowboy, and be attacked by wild creatures?::Ace Hunter: Well, if it's a comfortable tour you're looking for, I have connections... at DisneyLand!
Byrne-White: What's your rank?::Dallas: Rank? Why ain't nobody got a rank in Megaforce. 'Cept the Commander, but we all call him Hunter.
Dallas: Well, I know how you feel, and I've been there myself. Let me see. One time before I made a jump into the night, an old buddy of mine told me something that made me feel a whole lot better.::Ace Hunter: What, what did he tell you to do?::Dallas: Well, he said, "You love 'em in blue and you love them in red. But most of all you love them in blue."::Ace Hunter: That's totally inapplicable to anything that's going on here. And it's _dumb_. Who told you that?::Dallas: You did!::Ace Hunter: But it's very wise. Very wise.
Ace Hunter: It's all on the wheel, it all comes around.
Ace Hunter: Oh, I just wanted to say good-bye and remind you that the good guys always win, even in the eighties.