Almost all of us have already seen it on screen without perhaps realizing it. The American actress Barbara Rush, known for her roles in “The Meteor of the Night”, “Secret Liaisons”, or seen in a few episodes of “Seven at Home” or “Payton Place”, died Sunday at the age 97 years old. “She decided to leave on Easter, it was her favorite holiday, and now this day will have a special meaning for my family and me,” said her daughter, Claudia Cowan, a journalist at Fox News.
Barbara Rush, born in 1927 in Colorado, began her career in the early 1950s. Before “The Meteor of the Night”, we could see the actress in “The Burning Arrows” or “The Pirate King”. She also played in “Ten Seconds of Silence” in 1956, “Ce monde à part” in 1959, “The Seven Thieves of Chicago” in 1964 or more “recently” “Nothing stops the music” in 1980 and “Amours vacation” in 1982. She won a Golden Globes in 1954 as “feminine revelation of the year”.
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— Old Hollywood (@TheOldHollywood) April 1, 2024
The actress has also appeared on the small screen through series. We saw her at the end of the 1960s playing Marsha Russell in "Peyton Place", Celia Bell in an episode of "Mannix" in 1969, Eva Taylor in an episode of "Arabesque" in 1987 or even Barbara Matheson in " Beyond reality" in 1998. We also saw him in "La Croisière s'amuse", "Super Jaime" or "Matt Houson"... Barbara Rush also played Ruth Camden, mother of Eric Camden and grandfather. mother of the Camden grandchildren, in "Seven at Home".