Biography: Barbara Rush |
Fresh out of the University of California, sprightly Colorado-born actress Barbara Rush attended the Pasadena Playhouse, walking several miles to and from her classes to save up enough money for her tuition. Before launching her film career, she... more
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Tags: Romance Erotic Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 98min
Set upon a romantic Greek island, this drama chronicles the experiences of a pair of young American adults who go there for summer vacation. Their idyll is interrupted by a sexy archaeologist who has come there to work on a dig. ~ Sandra Brennan, All...
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Mystery Courtroom Drama
Length: 93min
In the made-for-television film Web of Deceit, a West coast lawyer (Linda Purl) returns to her hometown of Atlanta to defend an unfairly accused teenager (Paul de Souza) of rape and murder. As she investigates the case, she re-ignites an old love...
Cast: Kurt Russell
Tags: Comedy
Length: 96min
A concerned father decides to become closer to his daughter the hard way in this live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is the father of Wendy (Kathleen Cody), a pretty teenager soon to enter college. Like most...
Cast: Hugh O'Brian Neil Hamilton
Tags: Political Thriller Drama Thriller Romance
Length: 90min
Strategy of Terror began life as "In Darkness Waiting," a two-part 1964 installment of TV's Kraft Suspense Theatre. Newswoman Barbara Rush discovers that a right-wing extremist plans to kill four UN employees. No one believes her at first, but when...
Cast: Richard Burton Angie Dickinson
Tags: Thriller Drama Melodrama
Length: 104min
In this high-gloss soap opera (not dissimilar to the then-popular Peyton Place), Guy (Richard Burton) is a doctor who returns to the New England town where he grew up to help care for his good friend Larry (Tom Drake), who is dying of Hodgkins...
Tags: Musical Rock Musical
Length: 120min
Glitz producer Allan Carr tries to cash in on the late-'70s disco boom with Can't Stop the Music -- a film of such Brobdingnagian banality that it almost in itself stopped the disco movement cold. Comedienne Nancy Walker directed this musical...
Tags: Drama
Length: 120min
Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mann adapts author Budd Shulberg's scathing critique of the Hollywood studio system to the small screen in this drama originally aired as part of the NBC anthology series Sunday Showcase. Sammy Glick (Larry...
Cast: Walter Matthau Kirk Douglas Kim Novak
Length: 117min
Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, starts taking an...
Cast: Frank Sinatra Lee J. Cobb Neil Simon Barbara Rush Molly Picon Edith Head Sammy Cahn Nelson Riddle
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 115min
This filmization of Neil Simon's first Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Norman Lear. Once we get past the illogical casting of middle-aged Frank Sinatra and twentysomething Tony Bill as brothers, we're home free. Sinatra, a swinger supreme,...
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Cast: Paul Newman Brian Keith Adam West Alexis Smith
Length: 140min
Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's The Young Philadelphians is a glossy adaptation of Richard Powell's bestselling novel -The Philadelphians that revels in melodrama. The film opens strongly, with a...
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