26 Facts About Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress.

Hope Lange 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.

Hope Lange's father, John George Lange, was a cellist and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen; her mother, Minette, was an actress.

John worked in New York City and the family moved to Greenwich Village when Hope Lange was a young child.

Hope Lange sang with other children in the play Life, Laughter and Tears, which opened at the Booth Theatre in March 1942.

In high school, Hope Lange studied dance, modeled, and worked in the family restaurant.

Hope Lange sometimes walked the dog of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a nearby apartment.

Hope Lange appeared on the June 1949 cover of Radio-Electronics magazine wearing the "Man from Mars" Radio Hat.

Hope Lange attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for one year, studying dance and theater before subsequently transferring to Barmore Junior College in New York, where she met her first husband, Don Murray.

Hope Lange began working in television in the 1950s with appearances on Kraft Television Theatre.

Hope Lange was seen by a Hollywood producer and contracted to 20th Century Fox.

Hope Lange came to prominence in her first film role in Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray, whom she married on April 14,1956.

Hope Lange subsequently became well-known for such supporting ingenue roles, and said that the resulting typecasting shortened her movie career.

Hope Lange went on to appear in Nicholas Ray's film The True Story of Jesse James as James' wife, opposite Robert Wagner; and in The Young Lions with Montgomery Clift.

Hope Lange starred as the wife of Jeffrey Hunter's character in Anton Myrer's wartime drama In Love and War.

Hope Lange appeared as Elvis Presley's older psychologist love interest in Wild in the Country, despite being only 13 months Elvis' senior.

Hope Lange then appeared in Frank Capra's final movie, Pocketful of Miracles, with Glenn Ford.

Hope Lange returned to television for a 1966 role on the series The Fugitive.

Hope Lange appeared in twelve television movies, one being Crowhaven Farm where she played the role of a witch.

Hope Lange played the murdered wife of Charles Bronson's vigilante character in Death Wish.

Hope Lange 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.

Hope Lange made appearances in the Maine town in which Peyton Place had been filmed during the film's 40th anniversary celebrations in 1998.

Hope Lange received an award in April 1945 and again in April 1946, when her age was given as 12.

Hope Lange left Don Murray in 1961 for actor Glenn Ford, associate producer and co-star of Pocketful of Miracles.

Hope Lange then left acting for three years after her October 19,1963, marriage to producer-director Alan J Pakula, whom she divorced in 1971.

Hope 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.