She worked with Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman, appearing in films like “Magnificent Obsession” as well as the primetime soap opera “Peyton Place.”
Actress Barbara Rush at the 1954 premiere of “Magnificent Obsession,” in which she starred with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Barbara Rush, an elegant, hazel-eyed actress who worked with Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Paul Newman, appearing in mid-century melodramas like “Magnificent Obsession” as well as the prime time soap opera “Peyton Place,” died March 31 at a memory care center in Westlake Village, Calif. She was 97.
Still, she was featured in at least two movies that have been reclaimed by critics after being ignored or dismissed upon their release. She played Jane Wyman’s stepdaughter in the Douglas Sirk melodrama “Magnificent Obsession” , which reunited her with Hudson, and was the wife of James Mason’s schoolteacher character in Nicholas Ray’s “Bigger Than Life” , an Eisenhower-era examination of mental health, consumerism and prescription-drug abuse.
Still, she continued to find plenty of roles, performing in touring productions of the Broadway plays “Forty Carats” and “Same Time, Next Year” and on TV shows including the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” in which she starred in the early 1990s as a Napa Valley vineyard owner.
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