1. Barbara Rush was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
28 Facts About Barbara Rush
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Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the soap opera All My Children and the family drama 7th Heaven, as well as starring in films such as The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and Hombre.
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Barbara Rush's father was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company.
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Rush attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948, starting her career in the university's theatre program.
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Barbara Rush lived at the Hollywood Studio Club, a hostel for young women working in the film industry.
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Barbara Rush took acting classes at the accredited Pasadena Playhouse School for Performing Arts, known as the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts.
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Just two years after graduating from UCSB, Barbara Rush was contracted to do her first feature-length film, The Goldbergs, in 1950.
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Barbara Rush's career began on the stage in the 1940s and quickly expanded to film and TV.
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Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Lobero Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures.
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Barbara Rush made her screen debut in the 1950 movie, The Goldbergs.
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Barbara Rush uses cortisone for symptom relief but then begins to abuse the medication, putting his family in peril.
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Barbara Rush's characters were often those of willful women of means or as polished, high-society doyenne.
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Barbara Rush was occasionally cast as a villainess or femme fatale, such as Marian Stevens in the Rat Pack's 1964 gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods.
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Barbara Rush portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the popular TV series Batman.
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Barbara Rush soon became a regular in TV movies, miniseries, and dramas such as Peyton Place and the daytime soap opera All My Children.
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Barbara Rush began her career on stage, which remained a part of her professional life until she retired.
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Barbara Rush was cast as Eudora Weldon in the early 1980s soap opera, Flamingo Road.
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In 1984 Barbara Rush returned to the theatre and brought her one-woman play, A Woman of Independent Means, to Broadway in New York City.
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Barbara Rush was one of five actors who appeared in both the original series and the reboot, and the only actress to do so.
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In 2007, Barbara Rush played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden in the long-running and very popular series 7th Heaven.
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Barbara Rush occasionally appeared on stage at the Theatre Guild in Orange County, CA in the mid-2000s.
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Barbara Rush made her final film appearance in 2017 in a "horror short" titled Bleeding Hearts: The Arteries of Glenda Bryant.
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Barbara Rush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950; they divorced in 1955.
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Barbara Rush married publicist Warren Cowan in 1959 but divorced in 1969.
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Barbara Rush married sculptor Jim Gruzalski in 1970 after they met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert.
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Since 1997 Barbara Rush had lived in the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California, and was a neighbor of David Geffen.
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Barbara Rush's final residence was a care home in Westlake Village, California.
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Barbara Rush died there on March 31,2024, at the age of 97, due to complications from dementia.