Hope Summers

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Sarah Hope Summers (born June 7, 1896 in Mattoon , Illinois , † June 22, 1979 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Summers attended the Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston , where she also worked as a teacher after graduating. She later moved to Bradley University in Peoria . It was not until the 1930s that she aspired to an acting career, which she began at local theaters and local radio stations. In 1951 she got the role of Belinda Catherwood in an early soap opera called Hawkins Falls, population 6200 . It was not until she was well over 50 that she made her feature film debut in 1957 in the thriller 714 does not answer . She had other, mostly small, film roles in Robert Wise's drama Let me live , Stanley Kramer's judicial drama Who Sows the Wind , William Wyler's literary adaptation Infam , Roman Polański's horror film Rosemary's Baby and in Henry Hathaway's Western Mortal Enemies .

From the beginning of the 1950s, Summers played regularly guest roles on series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Smoking Colts . She gained a certain prominence among the American television audience through the recurring guest role of Hattie Denton in the western series West of Santa Fé , which she played in sixteen episodes between 1958 and 1960. Between 1961 and 1968 she appeared as Clara Edwards in 32 episodes of the Andy Griffith Show . One of her last roles she had in 1978 in Chevy Chase - comedy Foul Play , the following year she died of heart failure .

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SURNAME Summers, Hope
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Summers, Sarah Hope (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Mattoon , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1979
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California