Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Barbara Bel Geddes's Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts
The Emotional Foundation Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades. The birth-card coordinate for October 31 is the 4 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Dallas) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1980 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — Dallas as Miss Ellie Ewing
The 4 of Hearts coordinate
Barbara Bel Geddes's birthday maps to the 4 of Hearts (The Emotional Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Barbara Bel Geddes. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a home people can count on, and you leave enough air for feeling to move.
Barbara Bel Geddes in the public record
She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Bel Geddes was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas, while her notable films included I Remember Mama (1948) and Vertigo (1958). In theatre, she is best remembered as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. Barbara Bel Geddes was born on October 31, 1922, in New York City, the daughter of Helen Belle (née Schneider; 1891–1938) and stage and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958). Mr. Bel Geddes had been born Norman Melancton Geddes. Upon marrying in 1916, Mr. and Mrs. Bel Geddes had created a new last name by combining her middle name and his surname.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Barbara Bel Geddes (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Barbara Bel Geddes, and not a forecast of an Emmy.
Cards in Barbara Bel Geddes's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♥ — Birth Card: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Environment: The Completed Mind
- 4♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Rigid Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Powerhouse
- 8♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Businessman
- 7♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Reflective Heart
- 7♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Questioning Mind
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Nurturing Leader
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Building reliable emotional foundations and trust
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: children.
Also on the record
- Bel Geddes had a sister named Joan who was six years her senior.
- Bel Geddes married theatrical manager Carl Sawyer (né Schreuer) in 1944; they had one daughter, Susan.
- They divorced in 1951.
- Later that year, she married stage director Windsor Lewis, with whom she had a daughter, Betsy.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- No other Emmy winner in this set shares the 4 of Hearts.
FAQ
- What is Barbara Bel Geddes's birth card?
- The 4 of Hearts. October 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Barbara Bel Geddes's dates come from?
- Birth date 1922-10-31 is the day-precision date on Barbara Bel Geddes's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Barbara Bel Geddes; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q232421). Birth date 1922-10-31 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).