Pamela "Pam" Barnes Ewing is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera, Dallas . Pamela is portrayed by actress Victoria Principal, first appearing on the show in the first episode, titled "Digger's Daughter", first broadcasted on April 2, 1978. Dallas following a trial of the family-rich Ewing oil in the city of Dallas, Texas, that Pam had married. The Principal played Pam until the end of the tenth season Dallas in 1987, when the character hit a truck carrying butane and propane and his body was badly burned. After this, she was briefly played by actress Margaret Michaels in an attempt to write the character out. The storyline of Pamela in season 1 focuses on her relationship with her new husband, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), and her fight against suspicion and hostility from within the Ewing family, as Pamela becomes a member of the Barnes family. Pamela's love for Bobby remained a strong character during her tenure on the show, famous for her resemblance to Romeo and Juliet, with two people from a hostile family in love.
In the early years of Dallas, the Principal took certain steps in his personal life to increase the depth of his character. He was initially very far from the players and they thought he did not like them. Leonard Katzman's producer faces it on this issue and he says, "I love everyone, but I just want to feel like an outsider, like Pam Barnes, married to Ewing." The principal also takes another way to improve his character, such as taking sound lessons to perfect Texas accents. His relationship with Patrick Duffy's character, Bobby, was the main component of the show, and when Duffy returned to Dallas in 1986, after being killed a year earlier, the whole year before was abolished as Dream of Pam.
The Principal received positive reviews for his role as Pamela and the Golden Globe nominee in the category of "Best Actress in a Television Series" at the 40th Golden Globe Awards. She was nominated for the "Soap Opera Digest" award for "Best Actress in a Primary Role in the Serial Prime" in 1986, while also sharing a nomination with Patrick Duffy for "Super Favorite Couple: Prime Time" in 1988. Hal Erickson from MSN.com making it known that Pamela's exit from the series had ended and left the audience silent.
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Casting and creating
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Prior to the creation of Dallas , the creator of the David Jacobs series originally had a very different idea from what he imagined. She wanted to make a television show based on "family issues and checking relationships at the middle class level". The Production Company, CBS, initially rejected the original idea, because they wanted something more "fancy" to air, with a richer character. After the success of Dallas , Jacobs's initial idea would be Dallas Knot Landing spin-off . She initially conceived Pamela as the central character of the Texas-based series. This role was originally made exclusively for actress Linda Evans for starring, and was unlimitedly called "The Untitled Linda Evans Project" which was originally in Indianapolis. He describes his character as, "a semitrashy woman married to a rich Texas family". After compiling the backstory of the Ewing family, Jacobs began to realize that the show could not be solved only with Pamela's character. He wanted it based on the whole clan and their lives as oil-rich people living in Dallas, Texas. Evans is ultimately not offered a role, but ironically will then go to play Krystle Carrington at Dynasty, a rival show for Dallas.
Casting
After Jacobs decides that Evans will no longer play Pam, he starts looking for another actress to portray the characters. The role was finally won by 28-year-old actress Victoria Principal. The Principal won a role over another finalist, Judith Chapman, famous for his work on television during the day. Shortly after the Principal's role on Fantasy Island, a friend pointed him in the direction of Dallas and "the part in it written for you". Finally, the Principal received a copy of the script "and read it and thought [my friend] was absolutely right". Acting as his own agent, he arranges a meeting with Dallas producer . Lee Rich, an executive producer in 1979, recounts: "We've all heard rumors about Victoria, this is a small town, and Victoria's background, which he calls in the past, is a plus." We feel that he has experienced life and can understand the part. " Jacobs later said, "Victoria, of all actors, goes for the most aggressive role, and such determination is only part of the character." Before becoming a star in Dallas, the Principal has starred in several small roles in film and television specials. These works included Earthquake in 1974, and Fantasy Island in 1977.
In 1977, Aaron Spelling offered the Principal a role in the pilot of his Fantasy Island TV series, however, he set out in a contract for the role to be written because he planned to attend law school. However, he obtained an audition pilot script for Dallas and his career ambitions changed. As Principal explained to TV Guide Network in 2004, "I left acting to become an agent and was on my way to law school, but when a friend dropped the Dallas script I read it When I finished, I know my life has changed - that part is mine So I called the casting and said, "I sent someone in." He said, "Who?" I said, â € Å"Let me name.It will be a surprise.â € And that was a surprise - I came with me! I sent myself for it! "The principal landed the role, Pamela Barnes Ewing, on the longtime television soap opera series Dallas which aired on the CBS network from 1978 to 1991.
Patrick Duffy, who would play love on Pamela's screen, knew that part was ideal for the Principal once she looked at him. He remembers that one of the finalists for Pamela "is a very talented young actress from New York... [that's] really good. [Then], in walking Victoria Principal with the tight jeans I've ever seen and the most can not I'm just going, 'Hello, Pam' I know he's going to be Pam Ewing. "Producer Michael Filerman (Knots Landing and Falcon Crest) offers insight," The headmaster really wants that role... and works very hard to get it.And there's a humanity about him that just wins, and the camera loves it, the camera just loves it.It's very important. "During the pilot's shoot, the Principal became very close with teenage actress Charlene Tilton, who plays Lucy Ewing. The principal explained that "location shooting is very difficult for Tilton, who is only seventeen years old and has never been away from home".
After appearing in ten of the fourteen seasons of Dallas, the principal indicated that he wanted to leave the series to pursue another place, and chose not to renew his contract. Leonard Katzman, who was an executive producer at the time, is now faced with a show that lost one of its main characters. Initially, the departure of the Principal was made into a "simple barrier in contract negotiations". Lorimar also told him that the departure was related to a "financial dispute", even after the Principal agent told him he was leaving. A spokeswoman for the event commented, "We can not reach an agreement and now the producers are revising the script without him... he declined our last offer." The Milwaukee Journal notes that the Principal lined up for other places at the time, including his own serial project. However, the Principal, said:
"I have been considering [leaving Dallas ] for two years, and in the last six months, it seems very clear to me.I realize that my job will be my career if I stay.Some people live in series until the end, you know, and after that they often have some problems, I think, find new opportunities And I want a career after Dallas There is great sadness in leaving my friends and performances - I am not never bored with it - but I am not at all ambivalent about it. I am realistic in keeping myself financially I do not want to go without a plan My plan is set up I have a project with a network ready to go that I can not talk about This is a drama mystery. "
The principal also reunited with some of his former comrades in Dallas's special reunion Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork broadcast on television in 2004, marking his first public appearance with they. since he came out of the show.
Potential return
In 2010, TNT (the brother company for Warner Bros. Television who is the current copyright owner of this series) announces that it is producing a new, updated series of Dallas . This new series is a continuation of the original series, and will mainly center around the J.R. Ewing, John Ross Ewing III, and Bobby Ewing as well as Pam's adoptive son Christopher Ewing, although the various stars of the original series will repeat their roles. With an upcoming resumption of Dallas in June 2012, rumors have been spinning that the Principal can return to shows like Pam. On March 28, 2012, Yahoo.com reported that the Headmaster's return to the event was a definite possibility.
They said, "Victoria Principal can be set to surprise back to Dallas's legendary drama series after the stars of Patrick Duffy and Jesse Metcalfe let the slip producer want it on the upcoming reboot event.The actress's character, Pamela Ewing, is written out of the series in 1987, when viewers were told that he only had a few months to live after escaping from the Texas dynasty. "In the added section, they say:" But the storyline is left open, and now comes the Headmaster - the only surviving member of the original performers who did not sign up for the relaunch later this year - can be brought back to Dallas in an explosive plot. "Jesse Metcalfe said," He has not (back) - he has not done it yet But I think for the show's producer, it's an open invitation. "
The Yahoo.com staff said that the Principal is "one big missing piece" of the new Dallas and is making the idea that the possibility of a return could potentially happen in the future, critically saying: "The drama. Intrik In particular, where is Victoria Principal? " Entertainment Weekly says that the Principal" definitely missed "as Pam's original character when reviewing the new series. Morgan Jeffrey of Digital Spy says that Principal is "impossible" to return to the new series due to lack of interest in the project, but the door will always be open. He said, "He pointed out that it was something he was not interested in."
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Character development
Pedigree and personality
Pamela's character is the cornerstone for Dallas ; lynchpin from the Barnes/Ewing family where soap was originally structured. At the start of the series in 1978, Pamela was the wife of the newly married Bobby Ewing, the youngest son of the oil barons Jock Ewing and Miss Ellie Ewing. The history of fictitious characters has been told through the series, and the film made for Dallas television: The Early Years, which tells the background of the Ewing family and the Barnes family. Dallas: The Early Years tells the background of the old feud between Jock Ewing and Pamela's father, Willard "Digger" Barnes, and how Pamela got up. Then, on Digger's deathbed, Pamela came to discover that Digger was not his real father, but his real father was Hutch McKinney, who had an affair with his mother Rebecca Barnes when he married Digger. The diggers caught them together, and Digger finally shot Hutch dead in anger and buried Hutch's body in the Southfork ground. The digger then raised Pamela as if she were his own daughter, becoming his official father. Pamela's mother, Rebecca, left Digger and her children behind in a mysterious state when Pamela was one year old, giving Digger the impression that she was dead. Pamela and Cliff were both raised by sisters Digger and Digger, her aunt Maggie.
As a member of the Barnes family, Pamela initially met with suspicion and hostility from rival Ewing's family after she married Bobby Ewing and moved to the Southfork Ranch to live with her new husband. The strongest hostility to Pamela came from Bobby's older brother JR Ewing, who tried to push Pamela out of Southfork Ranch by bribery and intimidation methods, and tried to trick Bobby into believing Pamela had an affair with her ex-boyfriend, Ray Krebbs. The Principal, who wants to represent the outer perception of his character of the family, will describe this with the players. Leonard Katzman describes it as "the most isolated woman in the world". When confronted by Katzman about why the Principal chooses to be exiled from others, he describes his situation as: "After a while, I thought, 'Maybe he does not like us' I went to see him,' No, I like everyone. It's just that I want to feel like an outsider, like Pam Barnes, marrying Ewing. '"The Principal also took other ways to improve his character, like taking sound lessons to perfect the Texas accent.. Fellow actor Patrick Duffy analyzed:
"He's full of riddles but I have to tell you that I have never had a bad experience because of the puzzle.What it is, he explains this once, is that he does this intentionally.The choice he makes as an actress is, in the play an outsider in the Ewing family, he really defends the outsider's position with his cast as a social equivalent.He does not do as much social activity as we do together, so in that sense he may be a few percentage points removed from the vortex which is the social center of our group. At least twice a year Larry Hagman and I will go to Canada - fishing, hunting trips, stuff like that Steve Kanaly is included in the group, and we will go together, and Steve and I'll take another trip together.We're a group, and Linda Gray is also a member of that group.Early Victoria is always a bit outside and t do not participate in those things. It was his choice and he felt it was conducive to him putting a part of Pamela. But when we were together on the set, waiting for the scene to be taken, in the dressing room and everything, it was nothing but hospitality. "
Victorian School Principal said that she felt Pam changed along the way of the series. He commented, "Pam does not have two parents, her father is a drunkard, and she really has to fight for everything she aspires to and accomplish.When Bobby marries her, she does not marry milk bread, she is very, very excited, she always a good person.I always feel Pam is the moral center of this program but he is complicated, and he is fiery, he has an opinion, and he is not afraid to voice it, but as the years go by, as JR becomes increasingly evil, the the writer feels, and I certainly understand why for the sake of the show, that Pam should be more and better. "When asked about whether he has any input about his character growth, he said:" After the show reached a tremendous world fame, I do not think we have a lot of feedback.You know the old saying, if it's not broken, don "Do not fix it; I really believe that Lorimar Television sees it as something that works and they do not want to deviate from the formula. "
Relationships
Pamela's marriage to Bobby Ewing is very important to understand his character. The couple produced the opening scene of Dallas when the first show aired in 1978, with Bobby taking home his new bride to meet Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing. Their complex relationships are often compared to Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet . When asked about whether or not serial-maker David Jacobs had this parallel connection from the start, he said: "Yes, guilty (laugh)". Relationships can be made of two hostile families with William Shakespeare at Romeo and Juliet, the Montagues and the Capulets. These families represent the hostile families of Barnes and Ewing, with Pamela described as Juliet Capulet and Bobby as Romeo Montague. According to Patrick Duffy, who was soon paired with the Principal was a challenge. He said, "We are in a constant competitive state, we are very territorial in front of the camera, and that is the tension." However, their outer-screen relationship improved significantly in the third season of the show, with Duffy explaining: "I developed an award for him, and I think for the first time he started to trust me.Some of the best scenes in the show are between Victoria and me, and they happen after we feel comfortable with each other. "
Pamela and Bobby's relationship changed significantly as the show progressed and began to grow. To create conflict, the producers brought in actors Priscilla Presley (Jenna Wade) and John Beck (Mark Graison) to create a drama for the couple. Finally, the two characters divorced and separated. After engaging with Ewing oil, Bobby tended to put Pam behind with the company that came first. In an interview with People , Principal said: "I will not stand Pam's way of being treated by Bobby." He also added, "Our marriage is not working anymore and I want to get divorced." With an upcoming fate, Pamela starts a new relationship with Mark Graison (played by John Beck). Producer Dallas is faced with obstacles to make the audience take root for new love in Pam's life. When asked about the acceptance of his character relationship with Pamela, Beck commented: "It's always arranged like that from the beginning, so it's quite a task and of course they come back together in the long term." I just hope for the best I've never gotten a tremendous reaction from the public, but it's everywhere, so it's constant recognition.That's amazing but I never see it like he saw it but I can see his point of view.I never really see it that way. "
In 1985, Patrick Duffy announced his intention to leave the show that kept Pamela and Bobby permanently cut off from each other. When Duffy initially left Dallas in 1985, it was assumed that Pamela and Bobby's relationship finally ended after a brief reconciliation during that season. However, the actor returned to the event the following season after the ratings started to fall. Leonard Katzman said, "Without Bobby, we lost the white knight from J.R. and Romeo to Victoria Principal's Juliet.With Patrick back we can return to the family drama making the show." The whole previous season was wiped as a dream, with Pamela getting up and finding Bobby living in the bathroom.
Storylines
Original Run
In the Dallas pilot episode, Pam and Bobby eloped in New Orleans and married off by Justice of the Peace. After Bobby took Pam home to Southfork, he met with enormous hostility from the Ewing family for being the daughter of their enemy, Digger Barnes. Initially, brother Bobby, J.R. Ewing, accused Pamela of being a spy for her brother, Cliff Barnes, who was building a case against Ewing Oil, claiming that he gave Cliff a very important corporate file. Bobby vigorously defended his wife and his family at last knowing that Pam was innocent. Shortly after the pilot episode, Pam became pregnant with Bobby's son. However, he argues with JR. drunk and dropped from the rafters from the barn, pushing her to a baby miscarriage.
After the miscarriage, many hostile families evaporate, with the exception of J.R. He openly hates him and his brother. In 1979, Pam was told by Digger's doctor that Digger was the carrier of neurofibromatosis, and that he and Cliff, as his children, were carriers; as neurofibromatosis is a potentially fatal disease in infants. Ironically, Pam soon finds her pregnant again. However, as before, the tragedy strikes when a venomous snake makes fear of Pam's horse when he comes out and throws it, causing a second miscarriage. In 1980, Pam's Digger watches died slowly and painfully as a result of decades of heavy drinking. At the time of Digger's death, he told Pam that he was not his biological child, but was born after an affair his mother did with Hutch McKinney. Burdened by a sense of loss after Digger's death and death confession, he encourages to know more about what happened to his mother. He develops dreams born of sadness - that maybe his mother did not die at all. Then a private investigator found evidence that his mother had not died as Digger believed, but still lives in Houston. Meanwhile, Bobby has taken over Ewing Oil while J.R. recovered after being shot. Pam sees her husband deeper and deeper into the heart of business in an effort to prove himself, and notices Bobby's instinctive appeal of power, which he realizes may be a danger to their marriage.
Baby's problems continue to haunt Pam, knowing that she is unlikely to take the child through the third month of pregnancy. His depression culminated in a near-fatal tragedy: Pam attempted suicide by jumping from his workplace, The Store. However, Bobby stopped him but it was clear that Pam needed psychiatric help. She was admitted to a mental hospital where she could get the help she needed. On a surprise visit to Southfork, Pam walks through the front door and sees Bobby with the baby boy in his arms. In a rising spirit, Pam quickly entered her life as Christopher's mother, while Bobby handled the adoption process. He and Bobby are getting closer during this period. In May 1982, Bobby finally told Pam about Jeff Faraday, Kristin Shepard, and the fact that J.R. could be Christopher's father. Pam was surprised that Bobby kept this from her but did not hesitate to fly to California with her to find the truth, preparing to fight anyone she needed to look after her son. When Rebecca, (Pam's mother), went to Houston on business, the Wentworth jet was involved in a collision in the air. Rebecca died of her wounds. Pam was crushed - and angry - blamed the contest between J.R. and Bobby for his mother's death. Pam left Bobby and they divorced in the fall of 1983.
In 1985, Bobby and Pam realized that they wanted to be together. Bobby suggested, Pam accepted and they spent the night together. The next day, Bobby was tragically cut down by a car driven by his stepbrother, Katherine Wentworth, and died a few hours later, leaving Pam heartbroken. Pam went on to make television history by dreaming of Bobby's death. Pam woke up and found Bobby in the bathroom, alive and well. Pam received good news at the end of the 1986-1987 season: she was finally able to conceive, having ensured that there would be no health risks involved. However, he never got the chance. When calling her husband to tell her the good news, she had a massive car accident in which she hit an oil tanker and was badly burned in the next fire. Recovering from burns, he decides to stay away from Ewings and everyone, including his son, disappears and divorces Bobby a second time.
Pam performed briefly at the 12th season premiere, with a different appearance as a result of plastic surgery (which also doubles as an explanation for Margaret Michaels playing a role, rather than Victoria Principal). He tells his brother Cliff that he is happy in his new life and plans to marry his doctor. Then, after Cliff leaves, his doctor asks why he did not tell Cliff that he has a deadly disease and only has a year to live. This is the last appearance of the characters in the series, although Pam is not immediately declared dead on the show.
Dallas (TV series 2012)
During J.R. Ewing on March 11, 2013, viewers know that J.R. had investigated Pam's loss before she died. In the episode "Let Me In", Ewings finds Rebecca Wentworth leaving a third of Barnes Global for her daughter, Pam, to be inherited by Christopher in the event of his death. In the episode "A Call to Arms", Christopher tries to make his mother declared dead legally so he can inherit his stake from Barnes Global. In the same episode, an agent named Ellis found a list of deposits made for a Swiss account that reflects the amount in trust, indicating there is still activity and signifying he is alive. However, in the episode "Legacies", Pam finally declared dead. His plastic surgeon explained that he had been burned horribly and fled from his family for fear of not being attractive. He underwent several operations in an attempt to reverse some of the severely injured tissues left by an oil truck explosion. Unfortunately, he suffered from pancreatic cancer. He flew to Abu Dhabi to receive an experimental surgery operation and died at the surgical table. According to Pam's death certificate, he was born on April 10, 1950 and died on July 14, 1989, making him thirty-nine years old at the time of his death. However, this is contrary to the flashback scene of the episode "Jock's Trial, Part II" in Season 3, where Pamela's mother became pregnant with Pamela after the 1952 presidential election.
Reception
Pamela's character has been well received by television critics. Principal received a Golden Globe nomination in the category of "Best Actress in a Television Series" at the 40th Golden Globe Awards for her work as Pam. Principal was nominated for the "Soap Opera Digest" award for "Best Actress in Main Role in Serial Prime" in 1986. She also shared a nomination with Patrick Duffy for "Super Favorite Couple: Prime Time" in 1988. Amelia Proud from The Daily Mail said, "He became a pin after landing the beautiful role of Pamela Ewing in a drama that will soon be resurrected Dallas in 1978, and 33 years later Victoria Principal is still an interesting sight. , who starred in Dallas for nine years in the seventies and Eighties, has yet to join castmates Larry Hagman, 80, Patrick Duffy, 62, and Linda Gray, 71, on TNT's reboot of the hit show, which aired in the summer of 2012. But he certainly looks good enough to return to the fold to play against Jesse Metcalfe, 33, who plays his adopted son Christopher. "
Pamela hit an oil tanker at the end of the tenth season Dallas . The storyline out is the subject of renowned controversy. It was left open ended after the Principal left the show and the audience did not know where the character was going. Hal Erickson from MSN.com said, "Although Victorian Principal has left Dallas at the end of the season, at the end of the season, the character of Principal, Pamela Ewing, is still hanging around, bandaged after seriously injured in a car accident.It seemed to direct viewers to the conclusion that Pamela would suddenly make a complete recovery in the tradition of her husband Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) "back from the dead" in the early ten seasons, Pamela's last fate unfinished for some week - and it gets complicated when the poor girl suddenly disappears from the hospital bed. "
Patrick Duffy returned to Dallas in 1986 after a one-season absence. The year-long episode is written entirely as Pam's dream. The storyline garnered a lot of publicity, good and bad. The staff of UGO Networks.com said: "Soap Operas are known (and sometimes hated) for their very unreasonable plot, and while the '80s primetime suddser Dallas is still one of the fun and even the great Ewing Empire is not immune to the absurdity of storytelling techniques favored by the genre. While your primetime soap opera usually does not mix with sci-fi and horror, there is a very high level of character returning from the dead in the genre. : Bobby Ewing Allegedly dead after being hit by his brother-in-law, Katherine Wentworth, who is also obsessed with her, fans (and CBS) have to do without Patrick Duffy, and even worse, judgment, for a full season.Thus, Larry Hagman, who acted as Duffy's brother and hated JR Ewing's oil barons, along with network executives, persuaded Duffy to come back, making it possible in the term sinetron) here, for the character of Bobby Ewing t come back by writing down the nightmare of a season as a dream... a very bad dream. "
Note
References
- Curran, Barbara A. (2005). Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Left-Soap . Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN: 978-1581824728.
External links
- Pamela Ewing Biography at Ultimate Dallas .com
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