Hope Lange Biography

Fast Facts

• According to Don Murray, for a period of two years, Lange was so committed to funding a refugee project that she lived in a home furnished only with crates, a box spring and a mattress
• Worked in her mother's restaurant in high school and did some modeling, once appearing on the cover of "Radio-Electronics" wearing a striking contraption called the Man from Mars Radio Hat
• Noticed for her beauty, she was often typecast as an ingénue on the silver screen
• Some of the rare roles that let her exercise her creative muscles as a talented actress were of a vengeful incest victim in "Peyton Place" and a widow in the sitcom "The Ghost & Mrs․ Muir․"
• In high school, she sometimes walked the dog of her neighbor, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
• Refused to sign onto a fourth season of "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" because she was annoyed at CBS executives for refusing to show an episode that implied that a married couple was having sex