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.
By: Roger Bartlett
1974
If you ever get the chance to go to Dallas
Take it from me pass it by
'Cause you'll only sing the blues down in Dallas
Take it from me don't go and cry
Chorus:
And I'm leavin' this town as soon as I can
Gonna stop off for awhile and see my woman
People do you wrong down in Dallas
I know well they've done it to me
Stealin' all your bread, they're so callous
I know well just look and see
Chorus:
Oh, and I'm leavin' this town as soon as I can
Gonna stop off for awhile and see my woman
And people like me just can't be free
The promo man won't let us be-ee
If the people who knew could get away
I'm real sure they'd leave today
(instrumental)
Yeah, now come on down and lose your mental balance
Look at me half crazy now
Oh, talkin' to chairs is strange and I know it
Look at me I'm doin' it know
Chorus:
Yeah, and I'm leavin' this town as soon as I can
Gonna stop off for awhile and see my woman
Yeah, leavin' this town as soon as I can
Gonna stop off for awhile and see my woman
Whoa, leavin' this town as soon as I can
Gonna stop off for awhile and see my woman
(Houston...)
(Houston...)
(Houston...)
Dallas packed her suitcase and drove off in the brand new car I bought her
She made leaving me look easy, I wish she'd made it look a little harder
I took her out of Texas when she was just a girl
But old Tennessee and me couldn't take Texas out of her
On how I wish Dallas was in Tennessee
If I could move Texas east, then she'd be here with me
Then nothin' else would come between the two of us
If Dallas was in Tennessee
By now she's leaving Memphis and everything we had behind her
Lord I hope the gold band on her hand will serve as a reminder
That true love is a treasure, that's very seldom found
But you can't stay together if there's no common ground
Oh how I wish Dallas was in Tennessee
If I could move Texas east, then she'd be here with me
Then nothin' else would come between the two of us
If Dallas was in Tennessee, oh if Dallas was in Tennessee
Dallas packed her suitcase
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well Dallas is a jewel
Oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight
And Dallas is a jungle, but Dallas gives a beautiful
light
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're
down
But when you are up, she's the kind you want to take
around
But Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the
ground
Yes, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're
down
Well, I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my
mind
But I came into Dallas with a dollar and a dime
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love
disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
I lived in no holy house but the Grand Hotel
The back streets of this old town, I know so well
And I drunk of no holy wine, save muscatel
Now my friend, I've got to go, you tell everyone I know
I'm sayin' goodbye, bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Bye, bye, Dallas, got to go
And I remember when they told me so
Right now I'm wonderin' where the good times have gone
All the things I never loved when they was mine
Hot city and an empty pocket make a man think on
I've been livin' low so long, I gotta get back where I belong
I'm sayin' goodbye, bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Bye, bye, Dallas, got to go
And I remember when they told me so
I'm sayin' goodbye, bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Bye, bye, Dallas, got to go
And I remember when they told me so
Bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Ain't no bother, it's understood
Livin' under cover don't do no good
Bye, bye, Dallas, I can't stay
Should have been at the palace yesterday
Ain't no bother, it's understood
Livin' under cover don't do no good
[ Jimmie Dale Gilmore ]
Chorus:
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Dallas is a jewel
Yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight
Dallas is a jungle
But Dallas gives a beautiful light
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Now Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down
But when you are up she's the kind you wanna take around
Now Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground
And Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down
Oh, I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my mind
I came into Dallas with a dollar and a dime
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes
A steel concrete soul with a warm-hearted love in disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
I say, Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his yes
Oh, I came into Dallas with the brights lights on my mind
I came into Dallas with a dollar and a dime
Chorus
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight.
And Dallas is a jungle but Dallas gives a beautiful light.
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
But when you are up, she's the kind you want to take around.
But Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground.
Yes Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
Well, I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my mind,
But I came into Dallas with a Dollar and a dime.
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
I see a kid and he looks like me
Got a face full of fear and a heart full of dreams
If I thought that you'd ever come down
I swear I
Follow the pain for she leads to your place of Recovery.
Am I?
Am I fit to see tomorrow
or have I lost the fight with today
Yeah!
I see a scratch and I close my eyes
I'm not afraid to say I'm not afraid to die
What's death when you're living like this
homeless and you lack true friends
Am I fit to see tomorrow
or have I lost the fight with today
Decided by myself
that modesty might be the way
I find out who I am
but the world won't know my name
Why do I mourn your death
when I'm the one who died.
King Cobra!
C-thru and then im No Class
and then I'm sloppy
but then I digress
Under the Weather
but sloppy was better
Things are fine when I wake up tomorrow
I like the way you pull your hair past your ear
I love my necklace around your wrist
I like your smooth white skin design
You're my only drug, girl
Take too much and you'll die in love
Already made up my mind, girl
You're the satellite of my sky
You watch every move of mine
I swear I'll get out to Dallas
Will be far
I swear I'll get out to Dallas
All in time
I move my hands down your spine
Stay in this moment for the rest of your life
I knew my eyes would dream while we're still awake
You're my only drug, girl
Take too much and you'll die in love
Already made up my mind, girl
You're the satellite of my sky
You watch every move of mine
I swear I'll get out to Dallas
Will be far
I swear I'll get out to Dallas
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight.
And Dallas is a jungle but Dallas gives a beautiful light.
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
But when you are up, she's the kind you want to take around.
But Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground.
Yes Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
Well, I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my mind,
But I came into Dallas with a Dollar and a dime.
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye.
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise.
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies.
I passed out on the fourteenth floor
the CPR was so erotic
a blizzard blew in through the door
and little glowing cum buckets in her ankles
O Dallas you shine with an evil light
O Dallas you shine with an evil light
How'd you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors,
and why am I drawn to you tonight?
Once you taste the geometry of a church in a cul-de-sac
you're gonna wanna sit with the bad kids in the back
Cruising down Commerce
killing time in the blazing sun
Is it true your analyst was a placekicker for the Falcons?
We saw B.B. King on General Hospital
in the Oak Cliff dram house where we stayed
and when Clancy whipped her with his belt buckle
we cleaned her cuts and then we prayed
O Dallas you shine with an evil light
Don't you know that God stays up all night?
And how'd you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors,
and why am I drawn to you tonight?
Watching the makeup girls make out with the mannequins
"Hey boys, supper's on me, our record just went aluminum"
Poor as a mouse every morning
rich as a cat every night
Some kind of strange magic happens
(Jimmie Gilmore)
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight.
And Dallas is a jungle but Dallas gives a beautiful light.
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
Well, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
But when you are up, she's the kind you want to take around.
But Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground.
Yes Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down.
Well, I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my mind,
But I came into Dallas with a Dollar and a dime.
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Ocean of stars, why've i gone so far?
i miss my home
i hear those engines drone
the runway is set
let's move this fucking jet, i have to go
despite all the sleet and snow
just a late night host leaving dallas
with a portrait done in velvet
just a three night run at the palace
and i've never in my life felt so alone
i worked for the show
stars would come and go
i worked the lights,
i even swept some nights
but now i'm the host that's worthy of a toast
don't you agree my little honeybee
just a late night king leaving dallas
with a portrait done in velvet
just a three night run at the palace
i'll be at 17th and broadway by tonight
so far away from all these wonders
even as the roulette spins
i just courted seventeen miles
came upon all winds bend
even in dreams of light
i can still hear her call through the tall grass and weeds
and i know i'll never be the same on this road to calvary
just a late night host leaving dallas
with a portrait done in velvet
just a three night run at the palace
and i never in my life felt so alone