OBITUARY: Barbara Bel Geddes.(Features) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: August 12, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WHEN she took her bestknown role in 1978, it was because she was 'flat broke', so Barbara Bel Geddes was surprised to find herself soon epitomised as the matriarch of a Texas oil family.

Before the US hit television series Dallas made her a household name, she had built up a short but distinguished Hollywood resumA and had an accomplished stage career.

Born in 1922, the daughter of noted designer and producer Norman Melancton Geddes made her theatrical debut i...

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