Barbara Rush (born January , ) is an American actress. In , Rush won
the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role
in the American black-and-white science fiction film It Came From
Outer Space. 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 th Heaven, as well as starring in
films including The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and
the Hoods, and Hombre.Rush was born in Denver. Her father, Roy, was a
lawyer for a Midwest mining company. She grew up in Santa Barbara,
California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara
and graduated in . It was at the university's theatre program where
she started her career.Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena
Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen
debut in ’s The Goldbergs. In , she co-starred in the classic George
Pal sci-fi film When Worlds Collide. In , she starred in Flaming
Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In she won the Golden
Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer â€" Female" for her
performance in It Came from Outer Space.Rush starred as the wife of
James Mason in the acclaimed 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.
the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role
in the American black-and-white science fiction film It Came From
Outer Space. 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 th Heaven, as well as starring in
films including The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and
the Hoods, and Hombre.Rush was born in Denver. Her father, Roy, was a
lawyer for a Midwest mining company. She grew up in Santa Barbara,
California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara
and graduated in . It was at the university's theatre program where
she started her career.Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena
Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen
debut in ’s The Goldbergs. In , she co-starred in the classic George
Pal sci-fi film When Worlds Collide. In , she starred in Flaming
Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In she won the Golden
Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer â€" Female" for her
performance in It Came from Outer Space.Rush starred as the wife of
James Mason in the acclaimed 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.
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