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Barbara Ruick is a Actor American born on 23 december 1932 at Pasadena (USA)

Barbara Ruick

Barbara Ruick
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 december 1932 at Pasadena (USA)
Death 3 march 1974 (at 41 years) at Reno (USA)

Barbara Ruick (December 23, 1930 – March 3, 1974) was an American actress and singer.

Biography

Barbara Ruick se marie trois fois. D'abord 1949 avec Frank Howren, le mariage sera annulé dans l'année, puis en 1953 avec Robert Horton , la co-vedette du film Apache War Smoke, le divorce sera prononcé en 1956. Elle épouse cette même année le compositeur John Williams, avec lequel elle aura trois enfants : Jennifer, Mark et Joseph. Elle meurt à 44 ans d'une hémorragie cérébrale.

Usually with

Don Weis
Don Weis
(3 films)
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart
(3 films)
Norman Panama
Norman Panama
(1 films)
Melvin Frank
Melvin Frank
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Barbara Ruick (10 films)

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Actress

California Split, 1h48
Directed by Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Walsh
Roles Reno Marmaid
Rating70% 3.5456853.5456853.5456853.5456853.545685
It is less concerned with plot than behavior as a friendship develops between Bill Denny (George Segal) and Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) over their mutual love of gambling. Charlie is a wisecracking joker and experienced gambler constantly looking for the next score. Initially, Bill is not as committed a gambler (he works at a magazine during the day), but he is well on his way.
Carousel
Carousel (1956)
, 2h8
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Gene Lockhart, Audrey Christie
Roles Carrie Pipperidge
Rating65% 3.293223.293223.293223.293223.29322
The story revolves around Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, both living their busy lives in the small town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. They fall in love, but both are fired from their jobs for different reasons – Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie and incurred the wrath of the jealous carousel owner Mrs. Mullin, and Julie because she stayed out past the curfew imposed by the understanding but stern mill owner, Mr. Bascombe. Billy and Julie marry and go to live at the seaside spa of her cousin Nettie, but Billy becomes bitter because he is unable to find work, and in his frustration, strikes Julie (this moment is not shown at all in the film). Mrs. Mullin, the jealous carousel owner who is infatuated with him, hears of this and goes to Nettie's to offer Billy his old job back, but will not re-hire him unless he leaves his wife. Billy seems to be considering the idea when Julie asks to talk privately. Julie, fearing he will be enraged, timidly tells him she is pregnant. But Billy is overjoyed and now firmly refuses Mrs. Mullin's offer. However, newly worried about not having enough money to provide for his child, and unskilled at anything except being a carousel barker, Billy secretly agrees to join his pal Jigger Craigin in robbing the wealthy Bascombe.
Confidentially Connie, 1h14
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Marilyn Erskine
Roles Barbara
Rating57% 2.8552152.8552152.8552152.8552152.855215
Connie Bedloe est amoureuse, mariée et enceinte. Tout irait bien si son obstétricien ne lui prescrivait un régime riche en viande. Or, les revenus du jeune ménage ne lui permettent pas de s'offrir un steak à tous les repas. Connie est pourtant saisie d'une telle envie de protéines animales qu'elle renonce à fumer pour pouvoir s'acheter une côtelette d'agneau. Joe, son mari, un jeune universitaire promis au plus brillant avenir et aux plus ternes rémunérations, accuse le coup. Sa femme ? Obligée d'arrêter de fumer ? De dépit, il accepte l'invitation de son père, un véritable tyran domestique mais aussi un riche éleveur texan...
Above and Beyond, 2h2
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Larry Keating, Stephen Dunne, James Whitmore, Larry Gates
Roles Mary Malone
Rating68% 3.441853.441853.441853.441853.44185
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor) is assigned to a dangerous mission in testing a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The perilous assignment has caused his wife Lucy (Eleanor Parker) to worry for his life and whether their marriage can survive the constant separations.
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, 1h12
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Lurene Tuttle, Hanley Stafford
Roles Lorna Ellingboe
Rating60% 3.0498953.0498953.0498953.0498953.049895
At Grainbelt University, a Midwestern university, freshman Dobie Gillis (Bobby Van) and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick). Pansy's wealthy father George (Hanley Stafford) can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Along the way, Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, while Dobie's officious English professor Pomfritt (Hans Conried) is misled to believe that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius.
I Love Melvin, 1h17
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson, Allyn Joslyn, Les Tremayne
Roles Studio Guide
Rating65% 3.2924453.2924453.2924453.2924453.292445
Small-time actress Judy Schneider dreams of becoming a Hollywood star even as she struggles along playing a human football in a kitschy Broadway musical. One day in Central Park she bumps into Melvin, the bumbling assistant to a Look magazine photographer. Melvin is smitten with Judy and endures disapproval from her father who wants her to marry Harry Flack, the boring heir to a paper box company. He exaggerates his importance at the magazine in order to impress Judy and her family and promises to get her on the cover, using the photo shoots as an excuse to spend time with her. His charade is exposed when her picture doesn't appear on the cover and she discovers that he is just a lowly assistant. Too ashamed to face her, Melvin abandons his job and disappears into Central Park. While hiding in the Park he sees Judy's picture on the cover of Look and discovers that the editor made her a cover girl so he would see it and come out of hiding.
Fearless Fagan, 1h19
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson, Ellen Corby, Barbara Ruick
Roles Nurse
Rating59% 2.9518452.9518452.9518452.9518452.951845
Floyd Hilstown is working in a circus as a clown with a comical lion act when he finds out he's a draft dodger. He is given a chance to enlist, instead of going to jail, but he doesn't want to leave his best friend. The friend is one Fearless Fagan, a Lion which Floyd has raised since he was four days old. The circus owner Owen Gillman suggests he buy the Lion. After which Fagan would be worked as an ordinary Lion by the circuses lion tamer Emil Tacuchnitz, which doesn't sit well with Floyd.
Invitation
Invitation (1952)
, 1h24
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern, Ray Collins, Michael Chekhov
Roles Sarah
Rating67% 3.3924553.3924553.3924553.3924553.392455
Ellen Pierce (Dorothy McGuire) is very happily married to architect Dan (Van Johnson). However, due to a bout of rheumatic fever in her childhood, her heart is weak and she cannot exert herself too much; how frail she is, she does not really know. Her wealthy father (Louis Calhern) and the family doctor (Ray Collins) have kept from her the fact that she probably only has a few more months to live.
You for Me
You for Me (1952)
, 1h11
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jane Greer, Peter Lawford, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Barbara Ruick, Barbara Brown
Roles Ann Elcott
Rating57% 2.857292.857292.857292.857292.85729
A nurse, Katie (Jane Greer), must decide whether she should marry for love or money. She is pursued by Tony, a wealthy but irresponsible sportsman, and Jeff, a handsome, if conventional, doctor. Tony's ex-wife complicates matters.