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

Barbara Rush, Actor Who Co-starred With Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman Among Others, Dies at 97
Barbara Rush appears at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival—Opening Night Gala of "When Harry Met Sally" in Los Angeles on April 11, 2019. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File
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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. She was 97.

Mrs. 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.