Barbara Rush, who was once leading lady to Hollywood heavyweights Frank Sinatra & Paul Newman, passes away
Barbara Rush, a popular leading actor in the 1950 and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career, has died. She was 97.
Rush's death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday. Additional details were not immediately available.
Cowan praised her mother as «among the last of „Old Hollywood Royalty“ and called herself her mother's „biggest fan.“
Spotted in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rush was given a contract at Paramount Studios in 1950 and made her film debut that same year with a small role in «The Goldbergs,» based on the radio and TV series of the same name.
She would leave Paramount soon after, however, going to work for Universal International and later 20th Century Fox.
«Paramount wasn't geared for developing new talent,» she recalled in 1954. «Every time a good role came along, they tried to borrow Elizabeth Taylor.»
Rush went on to appear in a wide range of films. She starred opposite Rock Hudson in «Captain Lightfoot» and in Douglas Sirk's acclaimed remake of «Magnificent Obsession,» Audie Murphy in «World in My Corner» and Richard Carlson in the 3-D science-fiction classic «It Came From Outer Space,» for which she received a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer.
Other film credits included the Nicholas Ray classic «Bigger Than Life»; «The Young Lions,» with Marlon Brando, Dean Martin and Montgomery Clift and «The Young Philadelphians»
