Barbara Rush, Actor Who Co-starred With Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman Among Others, Dies at 97

Published on April 2, 2024

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. She was 97. Mr. Rush’s death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday. Additional details were not immediately available. Ms. Cowan praised her mother as “among the last of ”Old Hollywood Royalty” and called herself her mother’s “biggest fan.” Spotted in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, Mr. 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....

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