Hollywood star Barbara Rush died on Sunday. She was known for her roles in It Came from Outer Space and Peyton Place. She was 97 years old.
Lisa Rush’s daughter, Claudia Cowan, told Fox News that her mother had died. The peaceful death of my dear mother took place at 5:28 this evening. I was with her this morning, and I know she was waiting for me to get home safely so we could start the transition.
“It’s fitting she chose to leave on Easter as it was one of her favorite holidays and now, of course, Easter will have a deeper significance for me and my family,” it said.
Rush became well-known for her part in the 1953 movie It Came From Outer Space, which she played with Richard Carlson. The next year, she won a Golden Globe for the movie because it made her look like the most promising new actress.
When Worlds Collide (1951), Magnificent Obsession (1954), and The Young Philadelphians (1959) are some of the actress’s most famous roles.
Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, John Drew Barrymore, Rock Hudson, and others starred with her in many of her most famous movies. These included Come Blow Your Horn (1963) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964); Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) and The Young Philadelphians; John Drew Barrymore in Quebec (1951); and Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession.
In 1958, she was in The Young Lions with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin, all of whom were big names in Hollywood.
Later in her career, she tried out for a number of TV roles, such as on the 1960s soap opera Peyton Place, for a short time on Batman, and on 7th Heaven. She also performed on stage. In 1984, she made her Broadway debut in a one-woman show called A Woman of Independent Means. She also did a number of shows in other states.
Rush’s second husband, publicist Warren Cowan, gave her a daughter named Cowan, who is now 60 years old. She is also the mother of 71-year-old Christopher Hunter, who she had with her first husband, actor Jeffrey Hunter.
