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LOS ANGELES 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..
Rush's death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday..
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..
She starred opposite Rock Hudson in "Captain Lightfoot" and in Douglas Sirks acclaimed remake of "Magnificent Obsession," Audie Murphy in "World in My Corner" and Richard Carlson in the 3-D science-fiction classic "It Came From Outer Space, for which she received a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer..
Rush was married and divorced three times to screen star Jeffrey Hunter, Hollywood publicity executive Warren Cowan and sculptor James Gruzalski. . Bob Thomas, a longtime Associated Press journalist who died in 2014, was the principal writer of this obituary..
