The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Saturday, August 13, 2005  

NOTED IN PASSING
The Vertiginous Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes, Northeast Harbor, Maine: stage, film, and television actress, 1922-2005.

I don’t know if there is, or ever was, a Bel Geddes Fan Club, but if there were, and if I were the type to do such a thing, I just might become a member.

There was something about her, or about her portrayal of various roles -- particularly her sublime performance as Marjorie ‘Midge’ Wood in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo -- that called to mind several of the women, past and present, I’ve long admired in my own family.

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