Barbara Rush 1927 – 2024

Barbara Rush (1927 – 2024) on screen 1950 – 2007. Obituary after the jump.

Barbara Rush, Award-Winning TV and Film Actress, Dies at 97
She received a Golden Globe in 1954 as that year’s rising star and appeared in movies alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman.
By Anita Gates, The New York Times, April 1, 2024

Barbara Rush, the supremely poised actress who rose to fame with supporting roles in 1950s films like “Magnificent Obsession” and “The Young Lions,” died on Sunday at her home in Westlake Village, Calif., in Los Angeles County. She was 97.

If Ms. Rush’s portrayals had one thing in common, it was a gentle, ladylike quality, which she put to use in films of many genres. She was Jane Wyman’s concerned stepdaughter in the 1954 romantic drama “Magnificent Obsession” and Dean Martin’s loyal wartime girlfriend in “The Young Lions” (1958), set during World War II. In 1950s science fiction pictures like “It Came From Outer Space” and “When Worlds Collide,” she was the small-town heroine, the scientist’s daughter, the Earthling most likely to succeed.

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Her final screen appearances were as a recurring character in the family-values series “7th Heaven,” between 1997 and 2007.

Ms. Rush continued acting until her early 90s and professed an overwhelming love of her work. In 1997, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, “I’m one of those kinds of people who will perform the minute you open the refrigerator door and the light goes on.”

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