Hope Long

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Hope Lange in the 1968 television series Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Hope Lange (born November 28, 1931 as Hope Elise Ross Lange in Redding , California , † December 19, 2003 in Santa Monica , ibid.) Was an American actress .

Life and accomplishments

Hope Lange came to film through her work as a mannequin and actress on Broadway. However, she was never able to build on the box office successes with her first roles in Bus Stop alongside Marilyn Monroe and in the drama Embers under the Ashes , for which she received an Oscar nomination. From the end of the 1960s, she worked mainly for television.

Lange married the actor Don Murray in 1956 , with whom they had two children ( Christopher Murray works as an actor, Sean works as a film composer); the marriage was divorced in 1961. From 1963 to 1971, the director Alan J. Pakula was her husband. In 1972 she had relationships with Frank Sinatra and with John Cheever . From 1986 until the end of her life she was married to producer Charles Hollerith. Her father was the film composer Johnny Lange .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Hope Lange  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on britannica.com
  2. ↑ Scott Donaldson: John Cheever: A Biography . iUniverse, 2001, ISBN 978-0-595-21138-8 , p. 237 (Retrieved March 13, 2009).
  3. ↑ Hope Lange , The Independent . December 23, 2003. Retrieved March 3, 2009. 
  4. ↑ imdb.com - Johnny Lange
personal data
SURNAME Long, Hope
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Hope Elise Ross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Redding , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2003
Place of death Santa Monica , California , United States