Barbara Bel Geddes

Retired from acting, she lives in Maine. She died in Los Angeles, California, and was interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. In the 1984-1985 season she was replaced by Donna Reed because of Bel Geddes's heart surgery. Another successful series followed with Father of the Bride and Father's Little Dividend. From 1978 to 1991, Bel Geddes played Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow on the prime time soap opera Dallas. This was shortly thereafter followed by the Topper series of films and The Wizard of Oz. Her career restarted when Alfred Hitchcock cast her in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents as well as an important role in the movie Vertigo (1958). That same year, she starred in Dinner at Eight.

However, the House Unamerican Activities Committee investigations essentially ended her film career. Ziegfeld died in 1932, worsening her financial situation. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for I Remember Mama (1948). She continued to appear on both stage and screen, but when the family's savings were wiped out in the Crash of 1929, she began to concentrate on the movies. Her film career began with 1947's The Long Night. She was quickly signed for the movies, with her first movie, in the starring role, in Peggy in 1916. Her most notable stage performance was originating the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway in 1955. According to some sources, Burke reportedly had an affair with the silent-film director Dorothy Arzner.

Bel Geddes, the daughter of architect Norman Bel Geddes, began as stage actress. In 1916, they had one daughter, Patricia Ziegfeld. Barbara Bel Geddes (born October 31, 1922) is an American actress. There she caught the eye of theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld, marrying him in 1914. In 1903 she began acting on stage, making her debut in London, and eventually returning to America to become the toast of Broadway as a musical comedy star. She spent much of her youth travelling with her family as her father played Europe in Barnum and Bailey's Circus.

Known as Billie Burke, she was born in Washington, D.C. to the famous English clown Billy Burke. Bernard. To earlier audiences she was the feather-brained Clara Topper in a series of popular movies about a man haunted by two alcoholic ghosts and their pet St. Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (7 August 1885 - 14 May 1970) was an actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz.

Pepe - 1960. Sergeant Rutledge - 1960. The Young Philadelphians - 1959. Small Town Girl - 1953.

Father's Little Dividend - 1951. Father of the Bride - 1950. The Barkleys of Broadway - 1949. Billie Gets Her Man - 1948.

The Bachelor's Daughters - 1946. Breakfast in Hollywood - 1946. The Cheaters - 1945. Swing Out, Sister - 1945.

The Laramie Trail - 1944. Gildersleeve on Broadway - 1943. Smith - 1943. You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr.

Johnson - 1920. The Frisky Mrs. Away Goes Prudence - 1920. Wanted: A Husband - 1919.

X - 1944. Mrs. January and Mr. Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 - 1943. This Rock - 1943.

The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard - 1911. Suzanne - 1910. Dot - 1910. Mrs.