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Post by snsurone on Sept 5, 2018 20:38:27 GMT
Today, I saw her in her film debut, THE LONG NIGHT on TCM.
And she was brilliant!
Although quite plain in looks, she had a natural knack for film acting that many more beautiful actresses ever attain, even with years of experience.
Her scenes with star Henry Fonda were just so natural and unpretentious.
It was from her performance in this movie that led to her 7-year contract with RKO where she played what is possibly her most famous role--Katrin, the eldest daughter and narrator in I REMEMBER MAMA.
She made a number of other movies, and then branched into television.
One of her best TV roles was in an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS called "Lamb to the Slaughter".
Of course, most viewers remember her as Miss Ellie, the Ewing matriarch on DALLAS.
A great actress!
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Post by bigwhiskey on Sept 5, 2018 20:40:48 GMT
Intriguing. My hilariously brain-damaged father would say the same thing; his mangled and laugh-inducing deformed arm trying the scratch your eyes out, his hot and red eyes regarding you with a coy smile. Then the wheelchair he sitting on suddenly collapses and down he goes - withering around on the floor like a bloody dickhead.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 5, 2018 21:39:51 GMT
Intriguing. My hilariously brain-damaged father would say the same thing; his mangled and laugh-inducing deformed arm trying the scratch your eyes out, his hot and red eyes regarding you with a coy smile. Then the wheelchair he sitting on suddenly collapses and down he goes - withering around on the floor like a bloody dickhead. I think you stumbled into the wrong board, pally. You might want to try Trump Tweets, Inc. |
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Post by bigwhiskey on Sept 5, 2018 21:57:22 GMT
Intriguing. My hilariously brain-damaged father would say the same thing; his mangled and laugh-inducing deformed arm trying the scratch your eyes out, his hot and red eyes regarding you with a coy smile. Then the wheelchair he sitting on suddenly collapses and down he goes - withering around on the floor like a bloody dickhead. I think you stumbled into the wrong board, pally. You might want to try Trump Tweets, Inc. Is that your way of an apology? |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 5, 2018 22:16:42 GMT
No, more of an eviction notice.
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Post by deembastille on Sept 5, 2018 22:21:10 GMT
Intriguing. My hilariously brain-damaged father would say the same thing; his mangled and laugh-inducing deformed arm trying the scratch your eyes out, his hot and red eyes regarding you with a coy smile. Then the wheelchair he sitting on suddenly collapses and down he goes - withering around on the floor like a bloody dickhead. I think you stumbled into the wrong board, pally. You might want to try Trump Tweets, Inc. yeh, I think this whiskey dude is one of those weird posters. makes no sense. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 4:26:20 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 6, 2018 4:34:45 GMT
Although quite plain in looks,       You are so right. Bel Geddes premiered the role of Maggie the Cat on Broadway in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," the same role taken by La Liz Taylor in the movie. If she seemed "plain" in movies like "Vertigo," well, that was what we call "acting." And she was great at it. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 4:45:58 GMT
mikef6 I guess one person's "plain" is another's "REALLY PRETTY !" … BUT the movie industry is not exactly known for STARRING "plain" people and hiring them for decades. Even though they re-cast plays using bigger screen names on occasion.  As Maggie the Cat !
    with Ben Gazzara, Mildred Dunnock and Burl Ives
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 6, 2018 14:26:57 GMT
Missed THE LONG NIGHT, sad to say. But I'm a huge fan of Barbara Bel Geddes, and I always found her to be quite attractive. I loved her in everything and would would have given my eye teeth to have seen her as Maggie the Cat on Broadway, directed by Kazan, who directed her earlier in PANIC IN THE STREETS. Her performance in I REMEMBER MAMA is one of my all-time favorites.
Here's an interview with Ben Gazarra and a clip from the Broadway production of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. I have a feeling it's better than the film - and I think Bel Geddes was a wonderful choice for Maggie.
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Post by kijii on Sept 6, 2018 17:07:13 GMT
I plan to watch Blood on the Moon (1948) on TCM on Tue, Sep 18.
It fits in with my Robert Wise viewing project and saves me the money of buying the DVD.
The cast looks inviting!!
BARBARA BEL GEDDES is a natural for the supportive wife, Panic in the Streets (1950), or The Five Pennies (1959), the supportive friend, Vertigo (1958), and the supportive family member, I Remember Mama (1948) (where she is actually narrating the story of Kathryn Forbes's novel).
I've never seen her in a harsh role yet.....
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Post by teleadm on Sept 6, 2018 18:17:39 GMT
![]()  Mary, Mary on Broadway with Barry Nelson. The play was a huge success and played for 1572 performances between 1961 and 1964, not sure if BBG was in all of them though. |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 6, 2018 18:35:15 GMT
Mary, Mary on Broadway with Barry Nelson. The play was a huge success and played for 1572 performances between 1961 and 1964, not sure if BBG was in all of them though. When “Mary, Mary” was released as a film in 1963, most of the Broadway cast was brought over except for Bel Geddes. Debbie Reynolds took her place, perhaps because the producers wanted a “name” in the role. Anyway, the movie opened to almost all negative reviews and quickly sank. Some contemporary reviewers compared Reynolds negatively to Bel Geddes. Most others didn’t like it because, cinematically, it looked like a filmed stage performance and many wondered, based on the movie, why the play was such a big hit on stage. My guess is because Barbara Bel Geddes played the title role. Whether even she could save the almost total one-set film is an unanswerable question but I would have liked to have found out.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 18:51:59 GMT
mikef6 teleadmThe Playbill in my pile of treasures says that I did see BBG in MM but I have no clear recollection of the play one way or another .. which usually means that I did not dislike it !
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Sept 12, 2018 17:23:59 GMT
That BBG was a cutie, especially in glasses!   And I watched her for years on Dallas where she brought some class to the sometimes chaotic lives of the Ewing clan.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 19:52:58 GMT
You are so right. Bel Geddes premiered the role of Maggie the Cat on Broadway in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," the same role taken by La Liz Taylor in the movie. If she seemed "plain" in movies like "Vertigo," well, that was what we call "acting." And she was great at it. Barbara was the original "Maggie The Cat"? I had no idea! Three cheers for her! I always liked her work. BTW, I've seen "Maggie" done three times on Broadway: Once by Kathleen Turner, early 90's (hot beyond hot), once by ScarJo (hot as well, but the man who played "Big Daddy" acted circles around everyone else), ands once with ScarJo's understudy, who did an admirable job, but wasn't doing it twice a day, six times a week). Come to think of it, Charles Durning was great as "Big Daddy" in the early 90's production I saw. But Kathleen was fantastic: she felt, looked, and SOUNDED so right as sexually starved Maggie. |
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Post by biker1 on Sept 13, 2018 3:17:56 GMT
Her plain jane persona is ideal for caught (1949), in which an all American girl aspires to a life of happily ever after. Control freak Robert Ryan doesn't live up to expectations, proving that wealth and glamour are not the prize after all. That's nice, isn't it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 13, 2018 4:56:36 GMT
Her plain jane persona is ideal for caught (1949), in which an all American girl aspires to a life of happily ever after. Control freak Robert Ryan doesn't live up to expectations, proving that wealth and glamour are not the prize after all. That's nice, isn't it. Her "plain jane persona" proves what a great actress can do... this very pretty woman manages to come across as being a plain jane. Now, t hat's acting ! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 13, 2018 5:09:47 GMT
CAUGHT 1949 aka Wild Calendar    It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora? ![]() There is also a version with Greek Sub-titles  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 13, 2018 8:21:15 GMT
Knockout dark western drama... Barbara Bel Geddes stars with a wonderful performance as the homesteaders daughter Amy Lufton, initially hostile to the handsome stranger who arrives in town...   |
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