Barbara Bel Geddes As "Sybilla" - The Perfect Wife? | Hitchcock Presents

[@orientlover1]

In those movies, they spoke each word so clearly.

[@marybruun9621]

orientlover1 without foul language

[@orientlover1]

@@marybruun9621 now that F... word almost comes naturally from leading characters.

[@orientlover1]

There were dialogue directors who taught actors how to speak in standard accent and shun their regional accents.

[@4knewt505]

@@orientlover1 that's so interesting

[@marlenerosado7178]

Yes, every coma, question mark so clearly awesome.

[@reelgirl8544]

I love Barbara's soft, sing-song voice.

[@zacchaeuswilson6116]

Kinda "Ms. Elllie-like". Lolol

[@HeyCoachBarbara]

🙂

[@kimberlypatton9634]

You don't know what you've got til it's gone..my husband of 39 years died 2 years ago and I miss so many little things..I never knew just how truly much of "one mind " we really were...

[@itsmesia2469]

😟 🙏🥀🕊️💛🕊️🥀🙏

[@martinkalmus3761]

Memories remain Its sad

[@lpkvideodesigns4998]

I'm so very sorry for your sad loss ... and totally understand what you say x

[@lpkvideodesigns4998]

So true .... I am so very sorry for your loss xx

[@spongemonkeysooz]

Crazy Bella Kim... My heart goes out to you. 💔 I'm going through the exact same thing. 🤔 I knew I'd miss him but this is ridiculous. We knew each other's bits and inside jokes that only we found funny. We were 2 peas in a pod, partners in crime, soul-mates, besties .💔 Sending you hugs and healing vibes. I make it through only with God's help. 💔

[@esmereldacarrillo4156]

I love her voice , so sincere, so patient and understanding. And clear, too. I sure love her acting talent. 💜🙋‍♀️

[@pattyamato8758]

She was in Hitchcock's Vertigo, and also played the matriarch on Dallas

[@DreamingCatStudio]

Her voice is so distinctive-even in radio plays it’s clear who’s speaking.

[@neshmiamulhall7254]

Ssse

[@ellecee453]

Barbara Bel Geddes was also in I Remember Mama with the great Irene Dunne.

[@twc8356]

Don’t mess with Miss Ellie!

[@geoben1810]

Funny how television portrayed married couples back then. Not just separate beds, but separate rooms! Which in reality isn't necessarily a bad thing. "Everyone needs time away, even lovers need a holiday" 🎵🎶 😉👍

[@anastasia10017]

no. civilized people had separate bedrooms. it was normal.

[@shebastinson7813]

@@anastasia10017 my grandparents had separate bedrooms

[@picklesdiaz]

That's why marriages last long in those times.

[@AsWeSpeak154]

Very good idea, together but separate.

[@gtw4546]

All the long-lasting marriages I know (25+ years) have separate bedrooms. A good nights sleep makes every-day annoyances easier to tolerate!

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

The music in this is outstanding! And so much story in 10 minutes!

[@apricotcookie4850]

Schumann wrote "Carnaval" and one of the pieces in it was called "Chopin" in tribute to the great Polish/French composer. It's an excerpt from that piece which is playing during the scene where the wife is dying. You might enjoy hearing the original, which is for solo piano.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

@@apricotcookie4850 Thank you!

[@yesterdayitrained]

This wife is like the sweetest thing on earth. Yet surprisingly bright. The husband is obsessed. I do love the ending though...

[@kadiummusic]

Don't be fooled ... 😁

[@ShavonCastella]

Did he kill her?

[@allamerican2689]

Hitchcock was a genius🙌

[@mejuffrouwvandalen]

I appreciate these films so much, a whole lot better than the crap we get served daily..

[@KDL861]

Vera Witteveen Hitchcock rules! 😂🥰

[@mejuffrouwvandalen]

@@KDL861 absolutely! ❤️

[@barbarat5729]

You don't have to "eat" what you're served.

[@shandaabsar7739]

I agree. So happy for youtube

[@martinkalmus3761]

You are So Right :)

[@KDL861]

Barbara Bell Geddes is the best actress of the 50s/60s and dominated as Miss Ellie in the 70s on Dallas! Fabulous actress who was amazing in Vertigo, another Full length Hitchcock masterpiece!

[@rumarspencer7302]

70s/80s on Dallas

[@fleurmartin]

I never liked her until I started watching the Dallas clips on FB. Her very subtle anger and firmness make her good to watch. Shes gentle, but has almost as much business knowledge as Jock or JR. Its impressive. I am Miss Ellie fan now.

[@malcolmdale9607]

I remember her in "the Five Pennies" with Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong.

[@deehuntley1712]

I Remember Mama.

[@marquitaarmstrong399]

Loved Barbara Bel Geddes. Didn't she serve the cops that murderous leg of lamb on Alfred Hitchcock????

[@jmbrinck]

I'll always remember Barbara Bel Geddes for her performance as Midge, Jimmy Stewart's artist friend in "Vertigo." A hard role to play and he did it masterfully.

[@JudithSweeney-p1o]

Miss Ellie on "Dallas"

[@jenniferjones188]

I really enjoyed that film vertigo brilliant

[@aqua6613]

She was truly lovely and it was a heart breaking role...she was so in love with Jimmy and he was just off chasing a nightmare. Ive been that woman and i know that heart break and the scene where she walks down the dark hallway of the hospital speaks to me so much but there is light at the end of that hallway for her and he just has a whole other pyrpose in life he must fulfill. He must bring justice. Maybe they were able to get back together. Also what a horrible fate for the other woman who loved him but he was in love with her role and he forced her to play in that role because that was the woman he loved....a fictional character. The woman he overcame his fears for to save her. Cheers to the women in love with "Captain-save-a-hoes"

[@marquitaarmstrong399]

Classic!!!!

[@lass-inangeles7564]

He was suffering from paranoid delusions, and his wife figured that out, and tried to help him. No sleeping meds anywhere. No drug addiction. Truly a good woman. He finally got it.

[@trawlins396]

I don't get it

[@vistulagibsoncooper2420]

If I was an Actress, I would've loved to be under the Direction of IDA LAPINO!! What a genius!

[@sharonzimmerman5558]

Absolutely! she also directed a few Boris Karloff Thriller and Twilight Zone episodes, too. I remember the TZ episode she starred in but don't remember the name. Will have to look up. She played aging movie queen who longed to return to her past. "Sixteem milimeter" something.

[@missspencer7744]

So. What caused the wife's death?

[@susanb2015]

I agree! She directed movies too. But it's Ida Lupino.

[@susanb2015]

@@sharonzimmerman5558 The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine. It's my favorite now because I want to go back too. I just put it on.

[@sharonzimmerman5558]

@@susanb2015 ha! I hear you!

[@drtmuir]

Directed by the great Ida Lupino 🤩

[@teacherlynn671]

Who doesn’t love Ida Lupino? Thanks for letting us know.

[@maryriley8077]

Ida was quite the gal! Such a talent!

[@DiamondJustice44]

Moral of the story....... You never miss a good thing until it is gone, sometimes your absence if all the punishment of a lifetime, especially if you KNOW who you were to a person. Stay good, good people 💯

[@Jack-ke5uv]

She's crafty and cunning...with of course that smile pasted on her face the whole time. Watch out for women like her as they are the worst kind....all sweetness and light on the outside but devious and cunning on the inside.

[@KR72534]

Barbara bel geddes was so wonderful. What a woman! Most people know her as Ms Ellie from Dallas.

[@charlesmblakley3445]

I remember my grandparents having their own separate rooms but yet they were very happy together

[@aqua6613]

I would opt for it if my partner snored perhaps. Id prefer seperate berooms just in case i cant sleep my sleep schedule is very much all over the place and i would probably wake up the other person and sleep is so very important which is probably why they were very happy because they were well rested. Doesnt mean you have to skip the intimacy time 😅 i love cuddle time and then id just go to my bed. Not sure id find someone on board with that concept.

[@verucasalt9182]

I bet your grand pa snored. In cases like that separate rooms are life savers .

[@Persephonie22]

@@verucasalt9182 I had Great Grand Aunt & Uncle that slept in separate rooms. So according to my Grandmother and her siblings they had to sleep in separate rooms b/c he snores were so heavy and she kept turning & tossing so much that kept moving the covers more to her side. So they decided to sleep separately for many years, but they love for each other never changed.

[@bitterbeauty711]

My husband and I have separate bedrooms. We're old and we both snore.

[@joneslani]

I love how if you say "darling" enough times its ok to talk about the decimation of your partner..

[@barbarasaracini1271]

😅

[@teacherlynn671]

The wife didn’t die, she moved to Dallas.

[@janek5970]

Yes, the enunciation was flawless. Barbara Bel Geddes - what a great actress. Try to find her in Hitchcock’s Lamb to the Slaughter written by Ronald Dahl.

[@barbaramoore6111]

Roald Dahl - to correct autocorrect. . .

[@KutWrite]

@@barbaramoore6111 That's why it's actually called "auto complete." It's not always correct. Far from it.

[@vb8428]

Vertigo

[@doragibbons2977]

Aren’t they the best films ever 💯💯👍

[@eb0526]

Dora Gibbons Ditto

[@marlenerosado7178]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💯

[@martinkalmus3761]

Always

[@lisasarver8702]

👌💯

[@shellyweiers121]

They sure are dora well said

[@Melly_6]

I loved the one Alfred Hitchcock episode when she clubbed her husband over the head with a club of frozen lamb cuz he was leaving her for another woman while she's pregnant

[@kathleenthurin845]

That is my favorite!

[@forwardplans8168]

And she served the lamb to the detectives investigating the death of her husband, if I remember correctly.

[@sr-b90]

It was also an episode of Tales of the Unexpected recently on Sky Arts.

[@margaretkearsey734]

That episode was entitled, "Lamb to the Slaughter" aired in 1958. I actually heard of that in real life too many years ago. I don't know if it is true but it could happen- eating the evidence. That episode was one of favorites too.

[@marywilliams9858]

@@margaretkearsey734 Right. A lady actually got rid of her hubby by clubbing him with a piece of frozen meat. Was in the paper in the States.

[@patriciamampel3601]

Aaahhh @ her death gone gone he realizes "I should have said I love you"...she met all his self-centered needs perfectly...

[@flippingforreal109]

Funny how he doesn't trust his wife in his study but has more faith in the maid. But then wants his wife to trust him by drinking whatever he brings her....What joker

[@donnawoodford6641]

A domineering chap living a fantasy reality.

[@gabbyl2960]

Narcs being narcs, and sometimes psycho killers as well.

[@britbyname3620]

It’s a film !!!

[@blackcougar1959]

Actor Alexander had an amazing voice and was one of my favorite actors from this time period. He narrated the ENTIRE KJV version of the bible, which is my preferred selection of bible study and reading on KZbin.

[@KutWrite]

Alexander Scourby - great narration voice.

[@tubularfrog]

Barbara Bel Geddes was a wonderful beautiful lady. She seems the perfect wife in this episode. He should have devoted his life to her happiness.

[@Pinky-kb2hd]

Love Alfred Hitchcock!!

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

And he would have loved you right back if you'd been a blonde young actress.

[@williamegreenjr3013]

Geesh

[@soapwonder2284]

I’ve never watched her in anything before she was Miss Ellie in Dallas! That’s a great video! 👍🏻

[@valeriebellomo3573]

Barbara Bel Geddes was in many episodes. She was in Vertigo also...

[@Stormlucy111]

How clever, Sybilla...the female Oracle's of Greek mythology

[@videox222ify]

the lamb to the slaughter with Ms. Bel Geddes is my very favorite episode this is a good one too

[@davidhalldurham]

I love Barbara Bel Geddes. Just a wonderful actress. If you haven't seen "I Remember Mama", look for it.

[@songbirdy]

David Yes! Thank you for saying that. With Irene Dunne. Wonderful movie way before Dallas for sure.

[@emf49]

She was in Vertigo with Jimmy Stewart, wasn't she?

[@davidhalldurham]

Elaine Fifield yes! She was in love with Jimmy Stewart and he was completely oblivious.

[@shandaabsar6686]

Thanks. I was wondering if she was from Dallas.

[@LATVERIAN1]

Ahh; she was too good for him. (*actually, she's too good for most guys. A lady, and a babe*)

[@sharonzimmerman5558]

Barbara Bel Geddes did several Hitchcock shows. Her Most memorable, I think, was "Lamb to the "Slaughter ". Anybody Remember That One? I think that episode won an Emmy Award.

[@ConnieM777]

It's a great epsiode.

[@sharonzimmerman5558]

@@ConnieM777 she always did great Hitchcock episodes. "Mourning of the Bride" was another. I just think "Lamb to the Slaughter " was best known. It's s actually been referred to in other TV shows over the years.

[@DreamingCatStudio]

sharon zimmerman That was great! I love the twist.

[@PamelaTaylor]

I love her

[@suzclayton783]

Vertigo. She was jimmy Stewart's friend in the mov

[@teambeining]

Of course this man would want to leave the perfect wife. Some are never happy. …BTW the background music is everything

[@tonirobertson5055]

I think it was a beautiful story...sometimes u can have a wonderful person in your life, and not realize it.

[@JaneEva]

Not realize it? He tried to kill her!

[@ladennayoung2939]

It wasn't beautiful, but it hopefully teach people to take no one or nothing for granted.

[@ladennayoung2939]

@@JaneEva He didn't realize how good of a wife he had until it was to late. Did you watch it until the end?

[@juliestrom412]

U r funny!🌝🌞

[@juliestrom412]

Oh now I get!

[@lezleyd55]

Sometimes, you don’t know what you got until it’s gone😂

[@Kay-pr3gr]

That husband makes me sick! What a drama queen!!!

[@dianeferre1273]

I was JUST Thinking... Gawd! What a Drama King... Questionable Acting...

[@victoriataylor5584]

He is isn't he?

[@robinjohnson8149]

I would love to kick his ass.

[@marlenerosado7178]

I agree with 💯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌✌

[@elizabethtobin6894]

Agree. What a wimp.

[@carlf.9035]

This episode is so heavy in truth even if a bit exaggerated but part of everyday relationship realities, the paranoia, lack of perspective and questioning we experience sometimes just in our head only when sometimes it's too late till we notice what we have or had right in front of us. The ending is stunning.

[@totallyfrozen]

Paranoia and gaslighting are not part of everyday relationship realities. You might need to talk to a psychologist about this.

[@rebellady04]

the wife is the same actress who played on Dallas as the mother

[@DraGnFly007]

Miss Ellie

[@stephanblack4558]

Miss Ellie.

[@womensarmycorpsveteran2904]

I knew I recognised her. Thanks.

[@mejuffrouwvandalen]

tlc tlc yes we know..

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@mejuffrouwvandalen, they're just trying to win the grand prize on "Trivia For Dummies"!

[@kvogel9245]

LOL. He actually wrote down his murder plans in his diary, just in case he forgot...

[@2degucitas]

I know. What a selfish idiot.

[@patsysmothermon7861]

That Was a Stupid Thing to do !! 🤪

[@devydu]

Wow, never seen Barbara Bel Geddes so young & beautiful with lovely long hair. She’s wonderful in Vertigo as the smart, yet lovelorn Midge, yearning for Johnny/Scotty, who was infatuated & obsessed with the mysterious Madeline.

[@jonwiley2592]

She's younger but, for some reason,. Barbara Bel Geddes always looked middle-aged to me. She didn't stand a chance against Kim Novak in "Vertigo".

[@devydu]

@@jonwiley2592 We’re used to seeing Barbara in her most popular role as Ewing family matriarch on “Dallas”. Yes, poor Midge. Men always go for beauty over brain. But even after Scotty lost Madeline twice, he still returns to Midge, but broken-hearted and tormented for life.

[@lioness7582]

@@jonwiley2592 I thought the same thing.

[@alysononoahu8702]

Also with Richard Widmark in PANIC IN THE STREETS

[@alysononoahu8702]

@@devydu not me

[@magicbulletdancers]

Lost spouse of 34yrs. I relish the dreams that the ole family scripture calls visions. So very grateful these have morphed into ' real life' experiences.

[@ladybug4752]

I just love those old movies!!!

[@melanier7309]

Movies? Or television shows?

[@inkyguy]

I recognized Alexander Scorby’s voice before I recognized his face. His voice is incredibly famous for narration of the entire New Testament on tape.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

How ironic that here, he narrates the tale of a villain.

[@nrw7734]

the entire Bible (KJV) narrated by him is on KZbin

[@keepdancingmaria]

Scourby, not Scorby, for anyone who is going to look for his narrations.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Inkyguy, That's Alexander Scorby? I didn't recognize the voice at all. By the way, he does the entire bible. Not just the New Testament.

[@isabellamorgan7026]

@@mildredpierce4506 Me neither and I have listened to him often

[@johnkean6852]

You out there in unhappy alliances 🤔 sometimes its better to get a divorce

[@quasimobius]

Somebody should have told Scott Peterson that. It's scary how many women never suspected their husband would prefer murder to divorce.

[@shananalexander9789]

Or Christopher Watts

[@gilliancockroft1719]

Sometimes that isn't enough.

[@lunastarr1925]

Isnt that lady who played d character of bobby ewings mother of dallas?

[@rachelnoske1267]

She refuses a divorce he says so in the beginning

[@chella3776]

I Love this one ! All she did, was to Love Him ! 💕💕💕

[@ArizonaWillful]

This show was on TV when I was a real little kid, and it really scared me.

[@donovanprimm457]

FINALLY A SHOW I CAN WATCH..... I'm so tired of the mainstream TV that tries to push woke diversified shows that are not funny and suck !!! I'M not racist just want to see good shows.....and the old ones are so much better.....thank you uploader !!!!!

[@lanalorenzen]

It's not just the garbage mainstream TV, it's commercial stations pushing worthless programming, it's the constant commercial interruptions. Frankly, I used to feel that the only way I could explain the programming was to think that a dump trunk unloaded a truck load of manure every night into the TV set. For that reason, I haven't watched mainstream TV in three years. I can find plenty of alternatives on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Sport's channels.

[@mastersnet18]

Donovan Primm yea the only mainstream media I really love is TCM.

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

I recommend The Jeffersons then. Great TV. Just a bit diversified.

[@donovanprimm457]

@@OrangeTabbyCat I loved the Jeffersons & Sanford & Son...those are great clean entertainment.....those were nnot forced upon us....we warched & loved them....but today everything has to be so Diverse and forced.... its not funny and I'm sorry but not every family in America has 1 black , 1 white , 1 India , 1 asian , and 1 LGBQTRSP.in them....or 2 Moms or 2 Dads...and all the children are different races & they're all gay.... This is the sort of things im talking about.....the majority of families are one color ....or have a mixed parent.... they are trying to make us all confusingly mixed and at least half of them are gay or Trans.... OH AND EVERYBODY IS WOKE IN THOSE SHOWS ( Theyre total crap ! ) Thanks for your comment !... Have a great day !!!

[@donovanprimm457]

@David Hargreaves Really ???? That is so sad.....sorry to hear ....I figured UK telly was way better....Question is when & why is the 3 % Controlling what we watch & say & do in this world?? I know the government or the ELITES started indoctrinating our children 2 -3 decades ago but GEEZ ...is that all it takes to ruin a Country is 20 to 30 years ????? I have never seen so many people ...especially in America be sooooo Dumb so fast !!!! BTW Thanks for your comment ...have a great day ! And yes im in America 🇱🇷

[@marymonroe7042]

This was soooo good!

[@yuckfooh5217]

THE ENIGMA: A MAN HAS TO BE SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE IT TAKES A WOMAN DUMB ENOUGH TO LOVE HIM TO BE A PERFECT WIFE FOR HIM.

[@shebastinson7813]

Yet he is not contempt

[@donnawoodford6641]

Social constructs may have made her a loyal, dutiful wife looking after her husband's needs before her own.

[@baddie1shoe]

@@shebastinson7813 *content

[@johnboys4697]

I can’t hear you ?

[@SC-sn3xs]

A WEAK* MAN

[@57curtnevan]

I believe Horace is actor Alexander Scourby, mostly known for his flawless narrations. Notice how perfectly he enunciates each word and syllable.

[@cynthiaesquibel3191]

Excellent! What a treat to have in my morning recommendations! Thank you for posting with such good quality, too.

[@donmoore7785]

Barbara is smashing here. I previously only have seen her in much later productions. I never realized the episodes of this show were only 12 minutes running length. It has been ages since I saw it on tv.

[@KeithDec25]

Barbara Bel Geddes episode LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER was another classic where she was a perfect wife...

[@krinkle909]

I thought I've seen them all... I don't remember this one...

[@PamelaTaylor]

miss elie

[@marietanner7538]

Just came across these and watched a few, love them! Always loved Alfred Hitchcock...id sit w my great grandma and watch him, she introduced me to his spooky unusual taste

[@totallyfrozen]

He was considered a directing genius back in his day and much of the principles he developed and practiced are still used today. He was known as the master of suspense.

[@Hugatree1]

How to drive your husband insane and convinced your out to kill him? Be the perfect doting caring wife!

[@no_one_211]

Yes. Until my husband realized that I'm just a sweet person to those close to me and have good manners in general he didn't trust me at all (way before we were married). His parents have a hateful marriage though and both sides of his family are full of narcissists and weasels, so he grew up exposed to it from all sides.

[@genepatterson4375]

I love the old style, the furnishings, the two-button light switches (yes, I remember them), but I wonder how someone would make a copy of a diary before photocopiers were invented?

[@thereseember2800]

Electrophotography was invented in 1937.

[@alexandermarquis6197]

Another good one, I love Barbara Bel Geddes. Good actress, even on Dallas, thank you B

[@lavellhall5471]

Yes i also remember Barbara Bel Geddes, years later on the show "Dallas".

[@333-u9o]

Wait! Is this Miss Ellie 😳

[@786helix2]

@@333-u9o it sure is!

[@itsmesia2469]

@@333-u9o Yes Miss Ellie! 🙂 Love Barbara Bel Geddes! 🙏🥀🕊️💛🕊️🥀🙏

[@ladylydia762]

Wifey was so nice and polite. If only he knew this of her. Now he sad🤔.

[@flobarcelos1279]

We have separate rooms and love it we have our own peace when we need it 20 years together

[@vernonsmith6176]

Wow...miss Ellie from DALLAS 😅

[@HeyCoachBarbara]

This was really good to watch. A great reminder to love people when they’re around ❤

[@1348polar]

"Oh, I miss her. Miss her as I've never missed anyone. The way she had of always being there when I wanted her. And of disappearing when I wanted to be alone. She was a perfect wife." Yikes!!! 😒💀😐💀

[@teemorris5757]

This was a great one.. one of the best

[@ladennayoung2939]

Well he was crazy. He was pretty mean to her. Smh. She was pretty smart.

[@jeanwhite1659]

Barbara G.,also starred in Dallas A hudge success TV series for many yrs.

[@melanier7309]

Most of us know that!

[@jenniferwilcox9759]

......and your point is?!

[@virginiarebyak6784]

This is one of my favorites. I've dvr'd Hitchcock & watch 2 shows every day. The twist at the end always gets you. Definitely entertaining..

[@cindyknudson2715]

Twist?

[@SilverSurfer5150]

First time I’ve Barbara Bel Geddes in anything other than Dallas. Quite an eye-opener. Her voice was still as silky and gentle as when she was older.

[@veckym9805]

What a good short film and unfortunately it's so true. We're all when lose someone who was truly love us too late to see how we were so wrong to not love them as much as they are loved us .

[@ritaturner9906]

This movie was from 1960 and apparently then they knew spouses can commit murder yet so many decades went by where no one looked for spouses who supposedly just disappeared. I don’t understand why he was trying to kill her in the first place.

[@belvinsweat7742]

Please show entire episodes.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

This was an entire episode. Although it was just 11 minutes 48 seconds long, it dramatized a complete short-short story. For concision and to heighten suspense, draw audiences right in, it began in the middle of a dramatic situation; as many classic literary works since Homer have. (That's the ancient Greek epic poet of The Iliad and The Odyssey, not the cartoon Simpson.)

[@belvinsweat7742]

Thanks for info. I’ve actually seen this on tv and there was more to it along with full credits.

[@videox222ify]

@@JudgeJulieLit the entire episode is close to 30 minutes long, this is a little more than 1/3 of it, the person that posted it edited it to this time

[@JudgeJulieLit]

​@@belvinsweat7742 @videox222ify Thanks for your info. I had not seen the original aircast of this episode, but recall that Alfred Hitchcock Presents always had a long introductory monologue and closing epilogue by Hitch, and to the episode opening and closing credits, and within it commercial interruptions, here deleted. Videox, while the show filled a half hour time slot, the foregoing front, "filler" and end items did abbreviate the actual running time of the drama itself. Yet Belvin if you say you saw more drama on the original telecast, evidently some was cut for this KZbin show.

[@not2tees]

The twistiness of Hitchcock lives on!

[@gregrak9389]

This is all too funny, they hadn't even "progressed" to married couples having twin beds in a single room, Bel Geddes is superb here, you sure can hear that "Miss Ellie voice" and her mannerism, RIP

[@ajajajaj624]

I had forgotten she was miss Ellie in Dallas thanks so your for your comment reminding me

[@brendaorozco1203]

Greg Rak Loved her as Miss Ellie! She was so lovely.

[@lrn_news9171]

At the time the show was made? Yes they had

[@anastasia10017]

civilized people always had separate bedrooms. it was normal.

[@noorgonzalez1076]

Appreciated her “Vertigo” Role With JAMES JIMMIE STEWART

[@RehanaF13]

This ending makes me almost cry 😢 so sad. They should have had more trust with each other. That’s the key for a good marriage. That’s how mine is for the past 26 years. BTW, it’s unrealistic when in the 50s and 60s films never showed married couples in the same bed in the same room. Especially when the spouse is ill, you’d think the partner would be in the same bed, as close as possible. This is what my husband and I do when either one of us gets sick. Nowadays in films even unmarried couples share the same bed. It’s not taboo anymore. Thank God !

[@sheliapea1387]

God isnt into unmarried sharing a bed.

[@vginn]

@@sheliapea1387 OMG. Who is this? What are you talking about ? These two are married

[@dorapete4536]

Wealthy people usually have their own rooms.

[@soniadrummond2169]

Good 😊 movie

[@gailfisher1350]

Barbara Bel Geddes was also in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with James Stewart and Kim Novak. She was also in I Remember Mama, and another movie with Henry Fonda, I don't remember the title.

[@susanjaeger5645]

We never know how much we really have until we lose it...

[@vginn]

Love 💘 these old shows. Bring back tons of great memories

[@fordlandau]

Barbara bel Geddes was a fine actress. She had a pivotal role in Vertigo

[@ideasink1470]

This is the craziest thing I have ever seen! 🤣 But I loved it!🤣

[@barbarapalmer8224]

How sweet are the woman in these stories

[@FlaDiva863]

Okay Ida Lapino!!! You better direct!!! 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

[@chrisn7259]

Barbara Bel Geddes was nominated for one Oscar for her supporting role in I Remember Mama in 1949, but she didn't win.

[@carolesmith4864]

One of my favorite movies of all time.

[@billfurman1494]

Chris N Think I met Bel Geddes once, an apartment dweller as Louise Fletcher was. I liked that humility. (Flower delivery).

[@patbutler1141]

@@billfurman1494 Not

[@itsmesia2469]

@@billfurman1494 🙏🥀🕊️💛🕊️🥀🙏

[@saintexupery8406]

Fiddlesticks to anyone who watches this and does not "get" the plot. It was perfectly understandable AND entertaining - kinda like a great snack between lunch and dinner!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

An Edgar Allen Poe gothic, yet O. Henry short-short story with an ironic twist ending.

[@cababness]

Great episode. Barbara Bel Geddes, such a beautiful lady and lovely actress. 😊

[@KDL861]

As usual, perusing comments before the story begins.

[@martinkalmus3761]

Its not bad thing at all. But sometimes is great to jump into black water hehe

[@luciezak3671]

I do this all the time lol

[@helenbestman5338]

Hehe

[@paulcaron400]

This is an episode I’ve been searching for!👀

[@lynettenasseri753]

Barbara was in the hit show Dallas in the late 1970's and through the 1980's. She played Ellie, JR's mother, in the show.

[@rfjohns4452]

I was a child watching a few shows only because of bedtime and I remember this woman but didn't know that she played in Dallas.

[@tammanyfields3583]

Has anybody noticed how many episodes have used the same bed? I have seen at least 7 and the reason why is it is unusual looking french provincial.

[@mildredpierce4506]

You spill a bottle of medicine so you fill the bottle with lotion? Makes no sense.

[@kellyalves756]

It does if you’re subtly letting the user know you know what he’s up to.

[@tinygirl7531]

Thinnest lotion I've ever seen...😅

[@edienandy]

@@tinygirl7531 lotion can also refer to what a lot of people call a toner.

[@RETROGEMS]

I saw the whole episode and in 1 line of dialogue, it's pretty much revealed why he has so much resentment towards this saint of a wife and in fact, probably women in general. In a conversation about his late mother, he remarks that she was a marvelous woman but "she managed him". This episode looks like it was set around Victorian/Edwardian times and it was likely the social mores of the times that pressured him into getting married in the 1st place because otherwise, he was a character that pretty much wanted things his own way and his time exclusively to himself. He had mommy issues, with her domination, and took it out on his poor, innocent wife, snapping in the process. Who goes from 0 to 100 like that but someone deranged? He felt trapped in the marriage so instead of divorcing her, he plots to kill her? He was quietly deranged and I'd bet a major reason his wife put up with his insanity, never dragged it out and confronted him with it, is because she had no real money of her own and was determined, by hook or crook, to stay in that luxurious mansion and not lose everything she'd acquired as mistress of the household all because HE had mental issues. The moment she starts talking about how crazy he is, the fragility of their marriage tears apart and her status is threatened. Divorce looms. In fact, it's possible the story hinted at her constantly pretending that nothing was wrong, keeping a lid on the kind of man she was married to, knowing all along the violence and fatality he wanted to perpetrate against her and his seething paranoia and resentment against her, probably led to some kind of stress-related illness. She paid for that luxurious life, ultimately, with her own premature death. Some interesting complexity here.

[@poeticfigher]

short but sweet. I loved this.

[@dawsonb.6807]

How sad. =( don't know what you've got till it's gone.

[@carolann6821]

Ty,for the upload!

[@lukacunningham342]

This is a lession to all murderers: *if you plan to kill someone, don’t write it in a diary that can be easily put in the wrong hands*

[@shawngregg3796]

Always loved Barbara Bell Geddes. She was wonderful in "Life with Mama." And in "Dallas," was the perfect matriarch.

[@z512345]

I watch Miss Ellie and the rest of the Ewing's on Dallas almost ever other night.

[@axiomist4488]

How could a man with such a gorgeous wife sleep in a separate bedroom ? I would have been wearing out a mattress every six months !

[@franklesser5655]

And then she went on the become the matriarch of the Ewing family.

[@jomama5186]

Love AH ! I love how the piano gets really low when smthg bad is gonna happen!