Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003)<ref name="Chase 1989">Template:Cite book</ref> was an American film, stage, and television actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. In 1969 and 1970, she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

Early life

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15-year-old Lange modeling the "Man-from-Mars, Radio Hat", 1949

Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut.<ref name="the independent">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> Her father, John George Lange, was a cellist and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen; her mother, Minette (née Buddecke), was an actress.<ref name="Minette Lange Obituary">Template:Cite news "Mrs. Minette Buddecke Lange, who ran Minette's restaurant in Macdougal Street from 1944 to 1956, died Oct. 23 in a nursing home in Hanover, N. H. Her age was 71. She was the widow of John George Lange, composer and conductor."</ref> They had two other daughters, Minelda and Joy, and a son, David.<ref name ="Jiras Lange">Template:Cite news Minelda Lange, daughter of Mrs. John G. Lange married Robert Jiras. Minelda attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts.</ref><ref name=" Harry Boardman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} "During this time [1949–1954], he met and married Joy Lange, for whose family he had worked as a waiter at their Macdougal Street restaurant—Minette’s of Washington Square—and whose sister, Hope, was beginning to make a name as a Hollywood star in movies such as Bus Stop and Peyton Place."</ref><ref>Birth and death years for Minelda L Jiras and Joy L Boardman are from the Social Security Death Index.</ref> John worked in New York City and the family moved to Greenwich Village when Hope was a young child.Template:Citation needed

Lange sang with other children in the play Life, Laughter and Tears, which opened at the Booth Theatre in March 1942.<ref name="NY Times Feb 1942">Template:Cite news</ref> Her father died in September 1942. The family stayed in New York City after his death.<ref name="NY Times Sep 15 1942">Template:Cite news John George Lange, September 13, 1942.</ref> At age 9, she had a speaking part in the award-winning Broadway play The Patriots, which opened in January 1943.<ref name="Theatre Book">Template:Cite book The Patriots opened January 29, 1943. Hope Lange played Anne Randolph.</ref><ref name="NY Times Jul 1977">Template:Cite news</ref> From 1944 to 1956 Minette ran a restaurant on Macdougal Street, near Washington Square Park,<ref name="Minette Lange Obituary" /> called Minette's of Washington Square. (Some sources confuse it with Minetta Tavern, an Italian restaurant on Macdougal Street, founded in 1937.) The entire family worked there; Minelda ran the cash register, and Joy and Hope waited on tables.<ref name="Boca Raton News 1972">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Coronet 1959">Template:Cite journal</ref>

In high school, Lange studied dance, modeled, and worked in the family restaurant. She sometimes walked the dog of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a nearby apartment.<ref name="Beasley 2001" >Template:Cite book Eleanor Roosevelt lived at 29 Washington Square West from 1945 to 1949</ref> When her photo appeared in the newspaper, she received an offer to work as a New York City advertising model.<ref name="NY Times Obit">Template:Cite news</ref> She appeared on the June 1949 cover of Radio-Electronics magazine wearing the "Man from Mars" Radio Hat. This portable radio built into a pith helmet was a sensation in 1949.<ref name="RE Jun 1949">Template:Cite journal Cover description: The Radio Hat, posed by Hope Lange. page 4</ref>

Lange attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> studying dance and theater. At Reed, she was a student of artist Xenia Cage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After completing her first year of studies, Lange transferred to Barmore Junior College in New York,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> where she met her first husband, Don Murray.<ref name="NY Times Feb 1969">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Lange began working in television in the 1950s with appearances on Kraft Television Theatre. She was seen by a Hollywood producer and contracted to 20th Century Fox. She came to prominence in her first film role in Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray, whom she married on April 14, 1956. Murray later said that Monroe grew jealous of another blonde being hired for the movie and asked the producers to dye Lange's blonde hair light brown.<ref name="the independent" />

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Lange in Death Wish (1974)

After favorable reviews, Lange landed a major role in the then-risqué 1957 film Peyton Place. Her strong performance earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and another for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently became well known for such supporting ingénue roles, and said that the resulting typecasting shortened her movie career.<ref name="LA Times Obit">Template:Cite news</ref>

She went on to appear in Nicholas Ray's film The True Story of Jesse James (1957) as James' wife, opposite Robert Wagner; and in The Young Lions with Montgomery Clift. She starred as the wife of Jeffrey Hunter's character in Anton Myrer's wartime drama In Love and War (1958). These roles led to her earning top billing in The Best of Everything (1959), with Suzy Parker and Joan Crawford.<ref name="the independent" />

Lange appeared as Elvis Presley's older psychologist love interest in Wild in the Country (1961), despite being only 13 months Elvis's senior. She then appeared in Frank Capra's final movie, Pocketful of Miracles, with Glenn Ford (for whom she had left her husband, fellow actor Don Murray). The next year, she co-starred with Ford again, in the romantic comedy Love Is a Ball.<ref name="the independent" />

Lange returned to television for a 1966 role on the series The Fugitive (1963). She starred from 1968 to 1970 on the television series, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir for which she earned two Emmy Awards.<ref>1969 Emmy Award</ref><ref>1970 Emmy Award</ref> and a Golden Globe Award nomination. This success was followed by three seasons on The New Dick Van Dyke Show as Dick Van Dyke's wife, Jenny Preston, from 1971 to 1974, after which she declined to return for a fourth season of the show.<ref name="the independent" /> She also appeared in twelve television movies, one being Crowhaven Farm where she played the role of a witch. In 1977, she returned to the Broadway stage where her acting career had originally begun. She also played the murdered wife of Charles Bronson's vigilante character in Death Wish (1974). In 1985, she appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, and in 1986, she took a role as Laura Dern's mother in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. She took a Broadway role in Same Time, Next Year and then made appearances in the television movie based on Danielle Steel's Message from Nam and in Clear and Present Danger (1994).

Lange made appearances in the Maine town in which Peyton Place had been filmed during the film's 40th anniversary celebrations in 1998.<ref name="the independent" />

Personal life

Date of birth

Lange's year of birth is often reported as 1931, but the correct year is 1933. A possible source of this error is the Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook.<ref name="Reader's Digest 1980">Template:Cite book</ref> It had shown the year as 1931 from as early as its 1980 edition up until its 2009 issue. (The Almanac and Yearbook's 1976 and earlier editions had consistently reported Lange's year of birth as 1933.)<ref name="Reader's Digest 1976">Template:Cite book</ref> Other references such as Chase's Annual Events have always shown 1933,<ref name ="Chase 1989" /> as does her Social Security Death Index entry.

The 1933 year also matches the ages given in newspaper accounts of Lange in her youth. The New York Times covered the annual "Young People's Concert" awards given at Carnegie Hall. Lange received an award in April 1945<ref name="NY Times Apr 1945">Template:Cite news an annual "Young People's Concerts" award</ref> and again in April 1946, when her age was given as 12.<ref name="NY Times Apr 1946">Template:Cite news</ref> Lange's age of 12 in April 1946 would correspond to a birthdate in November 1933, not 1931.

Also, a short feature story was published in February 1951 about Hope Lange's culinary skills. The first paragraph gives the biography of a 17-year-old Hope Lange of Greenwich Village, New York. Her late father was "director of music for Florenz Ziegfield [sic]" and her mother had a catering business. In addition to modeling, acting, and dancing, Hope could make "terrific" sandwiches. The article gives her recipes for "Sardine Strips" and "Cheese Ribbon" sandwiches.<ref name="Lowell Sun">Template:Cite news This wire-service story was published in several newspapers.</ref> Born in 1933, Lange would have been 17 years old in February 1951.

Marriages and relationships

Lange's first marriage was to actor Don Murray. They married while he was filming his breakout role in Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe in 1956; they had two children,<ref name="the independent" /> actor Christopher Murray and photographer Patricia Murray. Lange left Don Murray in 1961 for actor Glenn Ford, the associate producer and co-star of Pocketful of Miracles. They had a four-year relationship but never married.<ref name="the independent" /> From October 19, 1963, until their divorce in 1971, Lange was married to film director Alan J. Pakula.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1972, Hope dated Frank Sinatra and began a relationship with the married novelist John Cheever.<ref name="cheever">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1986, she married theatrical producer Charles Hollerith, Jr. (1927–2011), with whom she remained for the rest of her life.<ref name="the independent" />

Death

Lange died on December 19, 2003, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70. Her body was cremated.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Tooltip
1956	Bus Stop	Elma Duckworth	Alternative title: The Wrong Kind of Girl	<ref name=afi>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1957	The True Story of Jesse James	Zee James	Alternative title: The James Brothers	<ref name=afi/>
1957	Peyton Place	Selena Cross		<ref name=afi/>
1958	The Young Lions	Hope Plowman		<ref name=afi/>
1958	In Love and War	Andrea Lenaine Kantaylis		<ref name=afi/>
1959	The Best of Everything	Caroline Bender		<ref name=afi/>
1961	Wild in the Country	Irene Sperry		<ref name=afi/>
1961	Pocketful of Miracles	Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin		<ref name=afi/>
1963	Love Is a Ball	Millicent "Millie" Mehaffey	Alternative title: All This and Money Too	<ref name=afi/>
1968	Jigsaw	Helen Atterbury		<ref name=afi/>
1974	I Love You... Good-bye	Karen Chandler
1974	Death Wish	Joanna Kersey		<ref name=afi/>
1983	The Prodigal	Anne Stewart		<ref name=afi/>
1983	I Am the Cheese	Betty Farmer		<ref name=afi/>
1985	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge	Shirl Walsh		<ref name=afi/>
1986	Blue Velvet	Mrs. Williams		<ref name=afi/>
1990	Tune in Tomorrow	Margaret Quince	Alternative title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter	<ref name=afi/>
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Senator Mayo		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1995	Just Cause	Libby Prentiss		<ref name=tvg>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Tooltip
1956	Kraft Television Theatre	Randy	Episode: "Snapfinger Creek"
1957–1958	Playhouse 90	Raiya Jessica Lovell Alex Winter	3 episodes
1962	Cyrano De Bergerac	Roxane	Television film
1962; 1975	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Roxane Mrs. Douglas	2 episodes
1966	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Rachel Douglas	Episode: "Shipwrecked"
1966	The Fugitive	Annie Johnson	Episode: "The Last Oasis"	<ref name=tvg/>
1967	CBS Playhouse	Lois Graves	Episode: "Dear Friends"	<ref name=tvg/>
1968–1970	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	Carolyn Muir	50 episodes
1970	Crowhaven Farm	Maggie Porter	Television film	<ref name=tvg/>
1971–1974	The New Dick Van Dyke Show	Jenny Preston	72 episodes	<ref name=tvg/>
1972	That Certain Summer	Janet Salter	Television film
1973	The 500 Pound Jerk	Karen Walsh	Television film
1974	I Love You, Good-bye	Karen Chandler	Television film
1974	Fer-de-Lance	Elaine Wedell	Television film
1975	The Secret Night Caller	Pat Durant	Television film
1975	Medical Story	Diana Hopkins	Episode: "Woman In White"
1975	The Rivalry	Mrs. Douglas	Television film
1976	Gibbsville	Harriet	Episode: "Afternoon Waltz"
1977	Police Story	Ann Wells	Episode: "Nightmare on a Sunday Morning"
1977	The Love Boat II	Elaine Palmer	Television film
1978	The Love Boat	Sandra Newberry	Episode: "Where Is It Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal"	<ref name=tvg/>
1978	Match Game	Herself (panelist)	5 episodes
1979	Like Normal People	Roz Meyers	Television film
1980	The Day Christ Died	Claudia	Television film
1980	Beulah Land	Deborah Kendrick	Miniseries	<ref name=tvg/>
1980	Pleasure Palace	Madelaine Calvert	Television film
1982	Matt Houston	Kate Riley	Episode: "Recipe for Murder"
1983	Fantasy Island	Marion Stamford	Episode: "Naughty Marietta/The Winning Ticket"
1983–1986	Hotel	Gwen Andrews Dr. Hannah Fielding	2 episodes
1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Catherine Connally Smith	Episode: "Maxwell Ltd: Finder of Lost Loves Pilot"
1985	Survival Guide		Television film
1985	Private Sessions	Mrs. Coles	Television film
1987	Ford: The Man and the Machine	Clara Ford	Television film
1987	Trying Times	Frances Fletcher	Episode: " A Family Tree"
1987–1993	Murder, She Wrote	Charlotte Newcastle Helen Lewis	2 episodes	<ref name=tvg/>
1989	Knight & Daye	Gloria Daye	7 episodes	<ref name=tvg/>
1993	Dead Before Dawn	Virginia DeSilva	Television film
1993	Cooperstown	Cassie Willette	Television film
1993	Message from Nam	Marjorie Wilson	Television film
1998	Before He Wakes	Helen Rawlings	Television film, (final film role)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Template:Abbr
1957	Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Peyton Place	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1969	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	Template:Won	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1970				Template:Won
1973		Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	That Certain Summer	Template:Nom
1957	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Peyton Place	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1968		Best TV Star – Female	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	Template:Nom
1957	Laurel Awards	Top New Female Personality	Template:N/A	Template:Nom
1973	TP de Oro	Best Foreign Actress	Template:N/A	Template:Draw
2008	TV Land Awards	Favorite Character from the "Other Side"	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	Template:Nom

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