Barbara Rush was born on January 4,1927 and is an American actress.
22 Facts About Barbara Rush
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In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American science-fiction film It Came from Outer Space.
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Later in her career, Barbara 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 family drama 7th Heaven, as well as starring in films, including The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and Hombre.
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Barbara Rush's father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company.
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Barbara Rush attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948.
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Barbara Rush started her career in the university's theatre program.
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Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures.
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Barbara Rush made her screen debut in 1950's The Goldbergs.
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Barbara Rush starred as the wife of James Mason in the acclaimed 1956 drama Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher's use of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family.
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Barbara Rush was the love interest of reluctant soldier Dean Martin in the war story The Young Lions and of ambitious lawyer Paul Newman in The Young Philadelphians.
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Barbara Rush began her career on stage, and it has always been a part of her professional life.
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Barbara Rush later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children.
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Barbara Rush often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne.
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Barbara Rush was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack's gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods.
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Barbara Rush portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman.
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Barbara Rush was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon.
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In 1989, Barbara Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M'Lynn.
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Barbara Rush has continued to make guest appearances on television.
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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 they 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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Barbara Rush has two children, Christopher Hunter and Claudia Cowan.