Rush was born in Denver. Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company. She grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948.\n', '

Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in 1951. In 1952 she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space.\n', '

Rush starred as the wife of James Mason in the acclaimed 1956 drama Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher\'s use of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family. She was the love interest of reluctant soldier Dean Martin in the war story The Young Lions and of ambitious lawyer Paul Newman in The Young Philadelphians.\n', '

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