Hope Summers Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from Northwestern University before taking a job as a speech therapist
• Died after suffering congestive heart failure in 1979 at 83-years-old
• Previously worked at the speech department of Bradley University in Illinois before deciding to pursue acting full time in the 1930s
• After garnering notoriety on both stage and radio with her one-woman shows, she would turn to on-screen opportunities after relocating to Los Angeles in the '50s
• Provided the voiceover for the Mrs․ Butterworth commercials prior to her death