Hope Lange
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| Known for: |
Blue Velvet, Death Wish, Clear and Present Danger |
| Birth name: |
Hope Elise Ross Lange |
| Birthday: |
28 November 1931,
Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA |
Trivia

Mother of
Christopher Murray.

Father was the music arranger for
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..

With husband
Don Murray they had a son, the actor
Christopher Murray, and a daughter, Patricia. The marriage was dissolved in 1961.

In 1968, Lange turned to television, taking on the role of Carolyn Muir in the popular series
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. She won two consecutive Emmys for that role in 1969 and 1970.

Lange earned the only Oscar nomination of her career for her supporting role in the provocative film
Peyton Place in which she played an incest victim who murders her rapist stepfather.

Made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of 11 in
Sidney Kingsley's play "The Patriots".

When she co-starred with
Marilyn Monroe on
Bus Stop, Monroe disliked the presence of a younger blonde and sent a series of memos to producers and the director, even suggesting that Lange be made to dye her hair brown.

For two years, Lange lived in a sparsely furnished home with crates for coffee tables and only a box spring and mattress for her bed. "She put all her money into the refugee project because that is the kind of person she was",
Don Murray said.
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