Barbara Ruick - Turner Classic Movies

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Also Known As

Barbara Ford

Birth Place

Pasadena, California, USA

Born

December 23, 1930

Died

March 03, 1974

Biography

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Barbara Ruick was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Ruick found her beginnings in film with roles in "Above and Beyond" (1952), "Fearless Fagan" (1952) and "Invitation" (1952) with Van Johnson. Ruick then began to rack up a number of film credits, including roles in the Peter Lawford romance "You For Me" (1952), "Confidentially Connie" (1953) with Van Johnson and ...

Filmography

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California Split (1974)

Carousel (1956)

Carrie Pipperidge Snow

The Band Wagon (1953)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Lorna Ellingboe

Confidentially Connie (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)

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Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) An Asinine Outburst

Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right

Biography

Barbara Ruick was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Ruick found her beginnings in film with roles in "Above and Beyond" (1952), "Fearless Fagan" (1952) and "Invitation" (1952) with Van Johnson. Ruick then began to rack up a number of film credits, including roles in the Peter Lawford romance "You For Me" (1952), "Confidentially Connie" (1953) with Van Johnson and the Donald O'Connor musical "I Love Melvin" (1953). She also appeared in the Debbie Reynolds musical comedy "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" (1953) and the adaptation "Carousel" (1956) with Gordon MacRae. Later in her career, Ruick acted in the George Segal comedy "California Split" (1974). Ruick's husband was John Williams. Ruick passed away in March 1974 at the age of 44.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

California Split (1974)

Carousel (1956)

Carrie Pipperidge Snow

The Band Wagon (1953)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Lorna Ellingboe

Confidentially Connie (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)

Above and Beyond (1953)

Scaramouche (1952)

Fearless Fagan (1952)

Invitation (1952)

Apache War Smoke (1952)

You For Me (1952)

Life Events

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Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) An Asinine Outburst Dobie (Bobby Van) has followed Pansy (Debbie Reynolds) and amorous Lorna (Barbara Ruick) and tagalong George (Bob Fosse) have followed him to the first class by prissy professor Pomfritt (Hans Conreid), planting seeds of conflict to come, in The Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, 1953

Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right The only complete production number in the movie, choreography credit to Alex Romero, song from the MGM catalog by Floyd Huddleston and Hanley Stafford, performance by Bob Fosse and Barbara Ruick, joined by leads Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds in The Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, 1953.

Carousel (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Trouble Down There Safe to say the originally-cast Frank Sinatra would have filled the shirt in a way different from Gordon MacRae, in the opening as Billy Bigelow, with "heavenly friend" William Le Massena, before the credits and overture from Darryl Zanuck's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, 1956.

Carousel (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Little Pink Bustle Carnival barker Billy (Gordon MacRae) begins his flash-back from heaven, to Maine where he works for Mrs. Mullin (Audrey Christie), noticing pretty Julie (Shirley Jones) and Carrie (Barbara Ruick) in the crowd, early in Darryl Zanuck's 1956 20th Century Fox production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

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