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Barbara Rush

February 19, 2023

Not to be confused with Barbara Bush.

Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927)[1] is an American actress. 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.[2] 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 family drama 7th Heaven, as well as starring in films, including The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and Hombre.

Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush as part of the Peyton Place cast, 1968–1969
Born (1927-01-04) January 4, 1927 (age 96)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (1948)
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2007, 2017
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1950; div. 1955)​

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(m. 1959; div. 1969)​

Jim Gruzalski
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(m. 1970; div. 1973)​
Children2; including Claudia Cowan
RelativesCarolyn Hennesy (niece)
Awards1954 Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female
1970 Sarah Siddons Award

Early life and education

Rush was born in Denver.[3] Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company.[4] She grew up in Santa Barbara, California.[5] She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948.[6] She started her career in the university's theatre program.[7]

Career

Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse[8] before signing with Paramount Pictures.[7] She made her screen debut in 1950's The Goldbergs. In 1951, she co-starred in the classic George Pal sci-fi film When Worlds Collide. In 1952, she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In 1954, she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space.[2]

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. She 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.

Rush began her career on stage, and it has always been a part of her professional life. In 1970, she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats[9] and brought her one-woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984. She began working on television in the 1950s. She 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.

In 1962, she guest-starred as Linda Kinkcaid in the episode "Make Me a Place" on The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. In 1962–1963, she appeared three times as Lizzie Hogan on Saints and Sinners. In 1965, she appeared in a two-part episode of The Fugitive titled "Landscape with Running Figures" as Marie Gerard, wife of police detective Lt. Philip Gerard. In 1967 she guest-starred on the series Custer.

She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne. Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack's gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). In the 1967 Western drama Hombre, she played a rich, younger, condescending wife of a thief - and ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake. She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman. In 1976, Rush played the role of Ann Sommers/Chris Stewart, the mother of female sci-fi action character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman.

After appearing in the 1980 disco-themed Can't Stop the Music, Rush returned to television work. She was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. In 1998, she was featured in an episode titled "Balance of Nature" on the television series The Outer Limits. In 1989, Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M'Lynn. She has continued to make guest appearances on television. In 2007, she played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden on the series 7th Heaven. Since then, she has made occasional appearances for the Theatre Guild in an Orange County, CA.

Personal life

Rush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950; they divorced in 1955. She married publicist Warren Cowan in 1959, but they divorced in 1969. Rush married sculptor Jim Gruzalski in 1970 after they met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert.[4] They divorced in 1973.

Rush has two children, Christopher Hunter (with Hunter) and Claudia Cowan (with Cowan).[10] The latter is a journalist with Fox News. She is the aunt of actress Carolyn Hennesy.

As of May 1997, Rush lives in the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California.[11]

In popular culture

In the 1975 film Shampoo, the hairdresser to the stars, with a reputation of sleeping with his clients George Roundy is portrayed by Warren Beatty. When seeking a bank loan, he is asked if he has any references, to which he replies "I do Barbara Rush."

Filmography

Theatre credits

Television

References

  1. ^ "UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 4, 2019". United Press International. January 4, 2019. from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019. actor Barbara Rush in 1927 (age 93)
  2. ^ a b Warren 1982, pp. 151–63.
  3. ^ Monush, Barry (2003). The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 654. ISBN 978-1557835512.
  4. ^ a b "Barbara Rush Maintains Image". The Beaver County Times. January 16, 1971. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Turner, Diane (September 1, 1967). "Actress Spurns Roles That Disrupt Home Life". Montreal Gazette. p. 8. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  6. ^ . UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  7. ^ a b Ruskin, Zack (September 20, 2019). "The Starry Hollywood Career of Barbara Rush". Marin Magazine. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  8. ^ Kaufman, Dave (1968). TV 69: Who's Who, What's What in the New TV Season. New York: Signet. p. 137.
  9. ^ "Barbara Rush Named Chicago Actress Of Year". Park City Daily News. July 15, 1970. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  10. ^ Hyman, Jackie (March 6, 1982). "Barbara Rush Insists On Glamorous Image". The Schenectady Gazette. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  11. ^ Stack, Peter (May 25, 1997). "Barbara Rush Still Striking Gold". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 10, 2016.

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Awards
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Not to be confused with Barbara Bush Barbara Rush born January 4 1927 1 is an American actress 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 2 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 family drama 7th Heaven as well as starring in films including The Young Philadelphians The Young Lions Robin and the 7 Hoods and Hombre Barbara RushBarbara Rush as part of the Peyton Place cast 1968 1969Born 1927 01 04 January 4 1927 age 96 Denver Colorado U S NationalityAmericanEducationUniversity of California Santa Barbara 1948 OccupationActressYears active1950 2007 2017Spouse s Jeffrey Hunter m 1950 div 1955 wbr Warren Cowan m 1959 div 1969 wbr Jim Gruzalski m 1970 div 1973 wbr Children2 including Claudia CowanRelativesCarolyn Hennesy niece Awards1954 Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer Female1970 Sarah Siddons Award Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 In popular culture 5 Filmography 6 Theatre credits 7 Television 8 References 9 External linksEarly life and education EditRush was born in Denver 3 Her father Roy was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company 4 She grew up in Santa Barbara California 5 She attended the University of California Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948 6 She started her career in the university s theatre program 7 Career EditRush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse 8 before signing with Paramount Pictures 7 She made her screen debut in 1950 s The Goldbergs In 1951 she co starred in the classic George Pal sci fi film When Worlds Collide In 1952 she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer Female for her performance in It Came from Outer Space 2 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 She 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 Rush began her career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional life In 1970 she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats 9 and brought her one woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984 She began working on television in the 1950s She 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 In 1962 she guest starred as Linda Kinkcaid in the episode Make Me a Place on The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging In 1962 1963 she appeared three times as Lizzie Hogan on Saints and Sinners In 1965 she appeared in a two part episode of The Fugitive titled Landscape with Running Figures as Marie Gerard wife of police detective Lt Philip Gerard In 1967 she guest starred on the series Custer She often played a willful woman of means or a polished high society doyenne Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role as in the Rat Pack s gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods 1964 In the 1967 Western drama Hombre she played a rich younger condescending wife of a thief and ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman In 1976 Rush played the role of Ann Sommers Chris Stewart the mother of female sci fi action character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman After appearing in the 1980 disco themed Can t Stop the Music Rush returned to television work She was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon In 1998 she was featured in an episode titled Balance of Nature on the television series The Outer Limits In 1989 Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M Lynn She has continued to make guest appearances on television In 2007 she played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden on the series 7th Heaven Since then she has made occasional appearances for the Theatre Guild in an Orange County CA Personal life EditRush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950 they divorced in 1955 She married publicist Warren Cowan in 1959 but they divorced in 1969 Rush married sculptor Jim Gruzalski in 1970 after they met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert 4 They divorced in 1973 Rush has two children Christopher Hunter with Hunter and Claudia Cowan with Cowan 10 The latter is a journalist with Fox News She is the aunt of actress Carolyn Hennesy As of May 1997 Rush lives in the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills California 11 In popular culture EditThis section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Find sources Barbara Rush news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message In the 1975 film Shampoo the hairdresser to the stars with a reputation of sleeping with his clients George Roundy is portrayed by Warren Beatty When seeking a bank loan he is asked if he has any references to which he replies I do Barbara Rush Filmography EditThe Goldbergs 1950 as Debby Sherman Quebec 1951 as Madelon The First Legion 1951 as Terry Gilmartin When Worlds Collide 1951 as Joyce Hendron Flaming Feather 1952 as Nora Logan Prince of Pirates 1953 as Countess Nita Orde It Came from Outer Space 1953 as Ellen Fields Taza Son of Cochise 1954 as Oona Magnificent Obsession 1954 as Joyce Phillips The Black Shield of Falworth 1954 as Meg Captain Lightfoot 1955 as Aga Doherty Kiss of Fire 1955 as Princess Lucia World in My Corner 1956 as Dorothy Mallinson Bigger Than Life 1956 as Lou Avery Flight to Hong Kong 1956 as Pamela Vincent Oh Men Oh Women 1957 as Myra Hagerman No Down Payment 1957 as Betty Kreitzer The Young Lions 1958 as Margaret Freemantle Harry Black and the Tiger 1958 as Christian Tanner The Young Philadelphians 1959 as Joan Dickinson The Bramble Bush 1960 as Margaret Mar McFie Strangers When We Meet 1960 as Eve Coe Deadline San Francisco 1962 TV movie Come Blow Your Horn 1963 as Connie The Unknown 1964 TV movie as Leonora Edmond Robin and the 7 Hoods 1964 as Marian The Jet Set 1966 TV movie Hombre 1967 as Audra Favor Strategy of Terror 1969 as Karen Lownes Suddenly Single 1971 TV movie as Evelyn Baxter Cutter 1972 TV movie as Linda The Eyes of Charles Sand 1972 TV movie as Katharine Winslow The Man 1972 as Kay Eaton Moon of the Wolf 1972 TV movie as Louise Rodanthe Crime Club 1973 TV movie as Denise London Peege 1973 short as Mom Superdad 1973 as Sue McCready Fools Females and Fun 1974 TV movie as Karen Markham The Last Day 1975 TV movie as Betty Spence Death Car on the Freeway 1979 TV movie as Rosemary Can t Stop the Music 1980 as Norma White Summer Lovers 1982 as Jean Featherstone The Night the Bridge Fell Down 1983 TV movie as Elaine Howard At Your Service 1984 TV movie as Barbara Stonehill Web of Deceit 1990 TV movie as Judith Widow s Kiss 1996 TV movie as Edith Fitzpatrick My Mother s Hairdo 2006 short as Fate Bleeding Hearts 2017 short as Barbara IronsTheatre credits EditThe Golden Ball 1937 stage debut The Little Foxes USC Santa Barbara 1948 and 1975 Antony and Cleopatra 1950 Pasadena Playhouse Summer Stock 1951 with Anthony Perkins The Madwoman of Chaillot 1951 with Jeffrey Hunter The Voice of the Turtle 1953 with Jeffrey Hunter Always April 1969 40 Carats 1969 1971 1972 national tour The Four Poster 1971 Unsinkable Molly Brown 1972 Butterflies Are Free 1972 1981 Private Lives 1973 national tour with Louis Jourdan Father s Day 1974 national tour with Carole Cook Finishing Touches 1974 1978 Hay Fever 1975 1980 Kennedy s Children 1975 1976 Endangered Species 1976 Same Time Next Year 1976 1978 national tour Night of the Iguana 1978 Twigs 1980 The Supporting Cast 1982 national tour with Carole Cook and Sandy Dennis Blithe Spirit 1982 1983 Disabled Genius 1983 Woman of Independent Means 1983 1988 Broadway and national tour Steel Magnolias 1988 1989 national tour with Carole Cook June Lockhart and Marion Ross Love Letters 1990 1993 Vagina Monologues 1995 1997 A Delicate Balance 1993 The Golden Age 1997 Make Me A Place at Forest Lawn 2002 2007 Television EditLux Video Theatre 1954 1956 4 episodes as Cathy Ruth Charlotte Joyce Gavin Playhouse 90 1957 1960 2 episodes as Liz Clara The Eleventh Hour 1962 1 episode as Linda Kincaid Saints and Sinners 1962 1963 4 episodes as Lizzie Hogan The Outer Limits 1964 1 episode The Forms of Things Unknown as Leonora Edmond Dr Kildare 1965 2 episodes as Madge Bannion The Fugitive 1965 2 episodes as Marie Lindsey Gerard Custer 1967 1 episode as Brigid O Rourke Batman 1968 2 episodes as Nora Clavicle Peyton Place 1968 1969 75 episodes as Marsha Russell Mannix 1968 1975 2 episodes as Rebekah Bigelow Celia Bell Marcus Welby M D 1969 1972 2 episodes as Dorothy Carpenter Nadine Cabot Medical Center 1969 1974 4 episodes as Claire Pauline Judy Nora Caldwell Love American Style 1970 1 episode as Carol segment Love and the Motel The Mod Squad 1971 1 episode as Mrs Hamilton Ironside 1971 1972 2 episodes as Lorraine Simms Mme Jabez Night Gallery 1971 1 episode as Agatha Howard segment Cool Air Maude 1972 1 episode as Phyllis Bunny Nash The Streets of San Francisco 1973 1 episode as Anna Slovatzka Marshall The New Dick Van Dyke Show 1973 1974 3 episodes as Margot Brighton Cannon 1975 episode Lady on the Run as Linda Merrick The Bionic Woman 1976 1 episode as Ann Sommers Chris Stuart The Eddie Capra Mysteries 1978 1 episode Fantasy Island 1978 1984 3 episodes as Mildred Koster Kathy Moreau Professor Smith Myles The Love Boat 1979 2 episodes as Eleanor Gardner The Seekers 1979 miniseries as Peggy Kent Flamingo Road 1980 1982 38 episodes as Eudora Weldon Knight Rider 1983 1 episode as Elizabeth Knight Magnum P I 1984 1987 2 episodes as Phoebe Sullivan Ann Carrington Murder She Wrote 1987 1 episode as Eva Taylor Hearts Are Wild 1992 1 episode as Caroline Thorpe All My Children 1992 1994 35 episodes recurring as Nola Orsini Burke s Law 1995 1 episode as Judge Marian Darrow The Outer Limits 1998 1 episode as Barbara Matheson 7th Heaven 1997 2007 10 episodes as Ruth CamdenReferences Edit UPI Almanac for Friday Jan 4 2019 United Press International January 4 2019 Archived from the original on January 5 2019 Retrieved September 4 2019 actor Barbara Rush in 1927 age 93 a b Warren 1982 pp 151 63 Monush Barry 2003 The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors From the Silent Era to 1965 Hal Leonard Corporation p 654 ISBN 978 1557835512 a b Barbara Rush Maintains Image The Beaver County Times January 16 1971 Retrieved March 10 2016 Turner Diane September 1 1967 Actress Spurns Roles That Disrupt Home Life Montreal Gazette p 8 Retrieved October 13 2014 UCSB Notable Alumni UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved March 10 2016 a b Ruskin Zack September 20 2019 The Starry Hollywood Career of Barbara Rush Marin Magazine Retrieved February 4 2020 Kaufman Dave 1968 TV 69 Who s Who What s What in the New TV Season New York Signet p 137 Barbara Rush Named Chicago Actress Of Year Park City Daily News July 15 1970 Retrieved March 10 2016 Hyman Jackie March 6 1982 Barbara Rush Insists On Glamorous Image The Schenectady Gazette Retrieved March 10 2016 Stack Peter May 25 1997 Barbara Rush Still Striking Gold San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved March 10 2016 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Barbara Rush Barbara Rush at IMDb Barbara Rush at the Internet Broadway Database AwardsPreceded byHelen Hayes Sarah Siddons Award Sarah Siddons Society Chicago1970 Succeeded byIrene Dailey Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Barbara Rush amp oldid 1131528351, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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