and the award for worst paragraph goes to this one according to longtime fan and future crewmember andrea cantrell she was asked to create a photo album of the ewing family in who was having difficulty finding as many appropriate pictures as she could though many of the new cast members could only provide recent snaps and her efforts were further hampered because the image of two original dallas stars late actors jim davis and barbara bel geddes are controlled by the handlers of their estate then after struggling duffy came to the rescue who asked his wife to send a box of pictures to cantrell all the pictures duffy's real life family were taken decades ago before duffy's parents were murdered in real life as well as a baby picture of patrick himself his real life mother also bore a slight resemblance to bel geddes whose character made a photo of her holding baby patrick exactly what cantrell needed his real life late parents made a cameo on the revised dallas series wow