Bel Geddes, Barbara

1922 - Born on the 31st of October in New York City.

1945 - Appeared in the Broadway production of Deep Are The Roots, winning a New York Drama Critics Award for best actress.

1946 - Signed a contract with RKO Studios.

1947 - Bel Geddes's film debut was opposite Henry Fonda in The Long Night.

1948 - Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in the drama I Remember Mama.

         - She appeared in two more films at the studio - Blood On The Moon.

1949 - Starred in the movie Caught.

1950-1951 - Panic In The Streets (1950) and Fourteen Hours (1951) with Richard Basehart.

1958 - She returned to Hollywood to appear in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

1959 - Appeared for The Five Pennie, she starred opposite Danny Kaye in the bio-pic of coronet player

Red Nichols.

1966 - Retired from acting to tend to her husband, Windsor Lewis, who was fighting cancer.

1978 - Returned to acting as the matriarch of the rowdy Ewing family on the primetime soap opera Dallas.

1980 - Best Lead Actress In A Drama Series Emmy Award.  

2005 - Passed away in Northeast Harbor, Maine on 8th of August.