Barbara Ruick
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1930-12-23
- Active to
- 1974-03-03
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A bundle of bright sunshine and unabashed energy, lovely musical actress Barbara Ruick delighted audiences for over two decades. The brown-eyed singer/actress who admittedly came up short in the dancing department nevertheless toyed with top musical stardom in mid-1950s films and almost nabbed it. A vivacious beauty whose sparkling, fresh-faced appeal reminded one instantly of a Mitzi Gaynor or Vera-Ellen, Barbara's untimely death at age 41 robbed Hollywood of a tried-and-true talent. <a href="h
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barbara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pasadena
- Place of death
- Reno
- Spouse
- Robert Horton
- Child
- Joseph Williams
- Father
- Melville Ruick
- Mother
- Lurene Tuttle
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- North Hollywood High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- MGM Records
- Image
- Barbara Ruick in The Affairs of Dobie Gillis trailer.jpg
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- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1930-12-23
- date of death
- 1974-03-03
- end of work period
- 1974-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Barbara Ruick
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Commons category
- Barbara Ruick
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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