LOS ANGELES.- Barbara Rush, a popular actress of the 1950s and 1960s, who shared credits with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film actors and later had a prosperous television career, has died. He was 97 years old.
The death Rush’s death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Sunday, Easter. No additional details were immediately provided.
Cowan praised his mother as one of the last of the old royals. Hollywood and said she was her mother’s biggest fan.
After being discovered in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rush signed a contract with Paramount Studios in 1950 and made her film debut that same year with a small role in The Goldbergs (Los Goldberg), based on the radio and television series of the same name.
However, he would leave Paramount shortly after, going to work for Universal International and later for 20th Century Fox.
“Paramount was not geared toward developing new talent,” he recorded in 1954. “Every time a good role came along, they tried to borrow Elizabeth Taylor.”
Filmografa
Rush appeared in a wide range of films. Starring alongside Rock Hudson Captain Lightfoot (race pride) and in Douglas Sirk’s acclaimed remake of Magnificent Obsession (Obsesin), Audie Murphy en World in My Corner and Richard Carlson in the 3D sci-fi classic It Came From Outer Space (They came from space), for which he received a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer.
Other film credits include the Nicholas Ray classic Bigger Than Life (More powerful than life); The Young Lions (The dance of the damned), con Marlon Brando, Dean Martin y Montgomery Clift y The Young Philadelphians (The city in front of me) with Newman. He made two films with Sinatra, Come Blow Your Horn (Gallardo and skull) and the Rat Pack parody Robin and the Seven Hoods (4 gngsters de Chicago), which also featured Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Rush, who had made guest appearances on television for years, recalled her move into movies as she approached middle age.
“There used to be a terrible Sahara Desert between the 1940s and 1960s, when you went from naïve to old woman,” he commented in 1962. “Either you didn’t work or you pretended you were 20.”
Instead, Rush took on roles in shows like Peyton Place, All My Children, The New Dick Van Dyke Show y 7th Heaven.
“I’m one of those people who takes action the moment you open the refrigerator door and the light comes on,” he said in a 1997 interview.
the beginning
His first work was the traveling version of Forty Carats, a comedy that had been a hit in New York. The director, Abe Burrows, helped her with the comic performance.
“At first it was very, very difficult for me to learn to synchronize, especially the business of waiting for a laugh,” he commented in 1970. But he learned, and the show lasted a year in Chicago and months more on tour.
Then I appeared on tours as Same Time, Next Year, Father’s Day, Steel Magnolias and his solo show, A Woman of Independent Means.
Born in Denver, Rush spent her first 10 years on the move as her father, a lawyer for a mining company, was assigned from town to town. The family eventually settled in Santa Barbara, California, where young Barbara played a mythical drade in a school play and fell in love with acting.
Rush was married and divorced three times: to movie star Jeffrey Hunter, Hollywood advertising executive Warren Cowan, and sculptor James Gruzalski.
FUENTE: AP
