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Rebecca Barnes Wentworth

Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
Dallas character
Portrayed by Priscilla Pointer
Duration 1981-83
First appearance January 2, 1981
The Prodigal Mother
Last appearance February 11, 1983
Requiem
Created by David Jacobs
Profile
Occupation Owner of Wentworth Tool & Die
Owner of Barnes-Wentworth Oil

Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (maiden name Blake formerly Burke) is a fictional character from the CBS primetime soap opera, Dallas. She is the mother of Cliff Barnes, Pamela Barnes Ewing and Katherine Wentworth.

Sometime during World War II, a barely literate 17-year-old, Rebecca Blake, started dating the much older former oil wildcatter, Digger Barnes. Digger had a drinking problem, and was still very bitter at his former best friend and business partner, Jock Ewing, who had married the love of Digger's life, Ellie Southworth, as well as later making millions of dollars off of the oil business, while Digger was left with nothing. While Rebecca was still 17, she got pregnant with Digger's child, and they married shortly afterwards. She gave birth to their son, Tyler, but Tyler died just six months after being born. Their second child was a son named Cliff. Their third child was a daughter named Catherine, who died 12 months after being born. Rebecca's marriage to Digger was mostly volatile due to Digger's drinking, and she described it decades later as an "awful life". The tragic premature deaths of Tyler and Catherine only made it worse.

Hutch McKinney was a man who got fired by Jock Ewing from Southfork Ranch in December 1952, and took Jock's gun before leaving. Rebecca had been having an affair with Hutch for some months, had become pregnant by him, and decided to leave Dallas together that night to start a new life. When Digger discovered his wife and Hutch McKinney together on the night that Hutch was fired and after Digger had been drinking, a confrontation followed where Hutch and a pregnant Rebecca both revealed that Hutch was the father of the baby and that they were leaving Dallas and taking Cliff with them. An angry Digger punched Hutch and Hutch pulled a gun on Digger, the gun being Jock Ewing's, which Hutch had stolen that night. This then resulted in Rebecca taking Hutch by surprise, disarming him, and Digger picking up the gun and shooting Hutch dead in a temper. Digger then buried Hutch's body on Southfork land, where it remained undiscovered for over 25 years. Digger and Rebecca then moved to Corpus Christi. Rebecca gave birth to Hutch's biological daughter, Pamela, and both she and Digger passed the child off as Digger's own daughter, with Digger becoming Pam's legal father. When Pam was just a year old, Rebecca left Digger, leaving Cliff and Pam behind. Rebecca left in such a way that Digger believed her to be dead. Cliff and Pam were both raised by Digger and Digger's sister, Maggie. Cliff and Pam both believed when they were growing up that their mother was dead.


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