12/27/2022 0 Comments Barbara rushIn 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. (is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). She gets her hair done at Carrie White’s. She has essentially been retired since 2007. She was a regular on the night-time soap Flamingo Road (1980-82), and later did guest spots on shows like Magnum PI, 7th Heaven, and Murder She Wrote. Ironically she is much more appealing in her work of the 1970s than her work of the 1950s, though it consisted of such fodder as the ABC TV movie Moon of the Wolf (1972), Walt Disney’s Superdad (1973), Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Death Car on the Freeway (1979), Irwin Allen’s The Night the Bridge Fell Down(1979), and the Village People disco musical Can’t Stop the Music (1980), directed by Nancy Walker. Rush is one of those women who are more attractive in middle age than in their youth. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American science-fiction film It Came from Outer Space. For a time she lived in the old Harold Lloyd estate. Anne Tyler Actress 0 Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927) 1 is an American actress. Rush’s first husband (1950-55) was Jeffrey Hunter, who went on to do The Searchers, King of Kings, and Star Trek (as Christopher Pike) after they broke up. The Paul Newman western Hombre (1967) sort of ends of her classic period, which includes a couple of dozen other forgotten westerns, romances, and the like. She was also in both T he Young Lions (1958) and The Young Philadelphians (1959), and appeared opposite Frank Sinatra in Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn (1963), and Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Her most prestigious film credit may be Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession (1954), in which she was third-billed under Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. (I always think she was in Forbidden Planet, but, no, that was Anne Francis). Actress of stage, TV and movies Barbara Rush was born on Januin Denver, Colorado. Her best known early credits are the sci fi classics When Worlds Collide (1951) and It Came from Outer Space (1953). After some experience at the Pasadena Playhouse, she began to get booked in films and television in 1951. Since then, she has made occasional appearances for the Theatre Guild in an Orange County, CA.Rush grew up in Santa Barbara and graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in theatre in 1948. In 2007, she played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden on the series 7th Heaven. She has continued to make guest appearances on television. In 1989, Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M’Lynn. In 1998, she was featured in an episode titled “Balance of Nature” on the television series The Outer Limits. She was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. In 1976, Rush played the role of Ann Sommers/Chris Stewart, the mother of female sci-fi action character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman.Īfter appearing in the 1980 disco-themed Can’t Stop the Music, Rush returned to television work. She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman. In the 1967 Western drama Hombre, she played a rich, younger, condescending wife of a thief – and ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake. Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack’s gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne.
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