Barbara Rush, actor who co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman among others, dies at 97
Barbara Rush, who co-starred in films with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other leading men of the 1950s and 1960s and had a thriving TV career later in life, has died
By BOB THOMAS
Published - Apr 01, 2024, 03:42 PM ET
Last Updated - Apr 01, 2024, 03:42 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barbara Rush, a popular leading actor in the 1950 and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career, has died. She was 97.
Rush's death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday. Additional details were not immediately available.
Cowan praised her mother as “among the last of ”Old Hollywood Royalty" and called herself her mother's “biggest fan.”
Spotted in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rush was given a contract at Paramount Studios in 1950 and made her film debut that same year with a small role in "The Goldbergs," based on the radio and TV series of the same name.
