Nancy Smith was the one Dallas newspaper columnist who covered society, celebrities, and politics during all 14 years of the original “Dallas” series. As society editor of the Dallas Morning News and celebrity/society columnist of the Dallas Times Herald, she reported a running account of the actual stars of Dallas, Texas. Their true love affairs, business chicanery and oil booms and busts were often as intriguing as what you watched on TV. As Larry Hagman exclaimed in 1983, “I tell you, we are the most famous people in the world!” Front cover: Caroline Hunt Schoellkopf, Norman Brinker, Larry Hagman with author Nancy Smith, Nancy Hamon, Stanley Marcus Back cover top row: Mary Ann Smith, Nancy Brinker, Roger and Marianne Staubach, Virginia Murchison Linthicum Back cover bottom row: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan
Dallas International with J.R. Ewing
History of Real Dallasites in the Spotlight of “Dallas,” Southfork and the 1980’s Gold Rush
by Nancy Smith
Dallas International with J.R. Ewing
History of Real Dallasites in the Spotlight of “Dallas,” Southfork and the 1980’s Gold Rush
by Nancy Smith
Published Dec 19, 2012
914 Pages
Genre: PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General
Book Details
THE DALLAS GOLD RUSH WHEN THE REAL CITY BECAME THE INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL OF WEALTH AND POWER IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF SOUTHFORK
If you consider the TV series “Dallas” exciting, compare its plots to episodes of the real Dallas! Actual happenings among true-life Dallasites were often more sensational cliff-hangers than “Who Shot J.R.?” Dallas was a city of diamonds, five-star hotels, oil money, Arab investors, stylish women and incomparable glamour.
Book Excerpt
“Texas means a lot to Frenchmen,” the champagne magnate Claude Taittinger said when he visited Dallas in 1985. “Texas is a symbol of power and growth. The ‘American miracle’ is now the ‘Texas miracle.’ This is very naïve but very powerful in the minds of most Frenchmen. Every Saturday the French cannot be disturbed. They must watch ‘Dallas.’ To them, J.R. is not a villain—he works hard, he’s smart and he sleeps with the most beautiful women. He is a hero with Frenchmen. Dallas has a prestigious image in France. It is the ‘Future City,’ the place where the little guy can still make it big. It is a place of dreams to many Frenchmen.”
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