Hope Lange : Just Walking The (First Lady's) Dog
Nov 3, 2019 2:38:45 GMT
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Hope Lange
'Hope Elise Ross Lange was born on November 28 1933 at Redding Ridge, Connecticut. Both her parents were in show business; her father worked as a composer and arranger for the Ziegfield Follies, and her mother was an actress. The family soon moved to Greenwich Village in New York, but Hope's father died soon afterwards, and her mother opened a restaurant. It acquired the patronage of Eleanor Roosevelt, who lived nearby, and her dog Fala, which Hope would take for walks.'
- Hope Lange remembered in The Telegraph
"In the mid-1950s, 20th Century Fox decided to put a group of young actors under contract, calling them Showcase Stars. They all posed linking arms, staring with optimism at the camera. Standing among Patricia Owens, Christine Carere, Dolores Michaels and Diane Varsi was Hope Lange.
Only Lange was to gain any real semblance of film stardom. The gentlemen at Fox preferred blondes, and the demure and refined Lange contrasted with Marilyn Monroe, who had emerged as the epitome of 1950s eroticism. In fact, Lange made her screen debut in Bus Stop (1956), as the sympathetic waitress who befriends dancehall girl Monroe - and that after director Joshua Logan turned down Marilyn's demand that Lange dye her hair because the star did not want to share the screen with another blonde.
According to Don Murray, who played the cowboy enamoured of Marilyn, and who married Lange the same year, she "was considered a great beauty, and a serious and dedicated actor who didn't pay attention to being glamorous."
- Ronald Bergan, The Guardian
Only Lange was to gain any real semblance of film stardom. The gentlemen at Fox preferred blondes, and the demure and refined Lange contrasted with Marilyn Monroe, who had emerged as the epitome of 1950s eroticism. In fact, Lange made her screen debut in Bus Stop (1956), as the sympathetic waitress who befriends dancehall girl Monroe - and that after director Joshua Logan turned down Marilyn's demand that Lange dye her hair because the star did not want to share the screen with another blonde.
According to Don Murray, who played the cowboy enamoured of Marilyn, and who married Lange the same year, she "was considered a great beauty, and a serious and dedicated actor who didn't pay attention to being glamorous."
- Ronald Bergan, The Guardian
1950s
1956 - Bus Stop - Elma Duckworth
Hope Lange, Marilyn Monroe & Betty Field
1957 - The True Story of Jesse James - Zee James
Robert Wagner & Hope Lange
1957 - Peyton Place - Selena Cross
Hope Lange & Lana Turner
1958 - The Young Lions - Hope Plowman
Hope Lange & Montgomery Clift
1958 - In Love and War - Andrea Lenaine Kantaylis
Hope Lange, Robert Wagner & Natalie Wood
1959 - The Best of Everything - Caroline Bender
Stephen Boyd, Hope Lange & Diane Baker
'Rumors ran wild during the filming of “The Best of Everything” in early 1959 as Hope Lange was on the verge of a break-up with her husband Don Murray, and Stephen Boyd had just officially divorced Mariella di Sarzana. Tabloids would hint that Boyd was the cause of the break-up, which Boyd would vehemently deny.
~ A doll named Hope Lane is something else again. Before Steve left for Europe, they were dating and she sent money here for a pal to buy him ‘the biggest bottle of champagne in all of France’ on his recent birthday. “But how can it be a big thing?” Boyd asks when you ask him about it. “She’s married.” But separated, you know, from Don Murray, whose romantic interests are elsewhere these days. So if you dare to mention, which I did, Hollywood’s flair for mate-changing, Boyd will smile: “Hope Lange isn’t Hollywood” (Ocala Star Banner, Aug 1, 1960)
~ From Screenland Magazine, 1960
From Modern Screen in 1960 concerning Hope, “In spite of her denials, Hope had been infatuated with Stephen Boyd. He’s a tremendously vital man with an exciting animal magnetism most women find hard to resist. I doubt if she ever thought of divorcing Don then, but Stephen made her terribly aware of the excitement lacking in her marriage…”
From a VANITY FAIR Article in 2004 concerning the making of Best of Everything, Hope Lange talked about her relationship with Stephen Boyd :
~ As for romance on the set, if the bungalow was busy, it wasn’t with any of the stars. Hope Lange and Stephen Boyd lunched daily together in the commissary, and because of these lunches several columnists began to imply that the two were in love. Lange, then married to actor Don Murray, “became so upset over these rumors,” wrote Photoplay, “that she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown.” But of Boyd, who died in 1977, Lange had only fond memories (and she still wondered what aftershave lotion he wore): “During the film we had a great camaraderie. He had that wonderful Irish charm, and wonderful humor. And anyone who has humor I’m a sucker for.”
Even two years later in 1961, when Lange had been linked to actor Glenn Ford, Stephen Boyd took her to the premiere of “The Children’s Hour ” and they danced the night away.'
~ A doll named Hope Lane is something else again. Before Steve left for Europe, they were dating and she sent money here for a pal to buy him ‘the biggest bottle of champagne in all of France’ on his recent birthday. “But how can it be a big thing?” Boyd asks when you ask him about it. “She’s married.” But separated, you know, from Don Murray, whose romantic interests are elsewhere these days. So if you dare to mention, which I did, Hollywood’s flair for mate-changing, Boyd will smile: “Hope Lange isn’t Hollywood” (Ocala Star Banner, Aug 1, 1960)
~ From Screenland Magazine, 1960
From Modern Screen in 1960 concerning Hope, “In spite of her denials, Hope had been infatuated with Stephen Boyd. He’s a tremendously vital man with an exciting animal magnetism most women find hard to resist. I doubt if she ever thought of divorcing Don then, but Stephen made her terribly aware of the excitement lacking in her marriage…”
From a VANITY FAIR Article in 2004 concerning the making of Best of Everything, Hope Lange talked about her relationship with Stephen Boyd :
~ As for romance on the set, if the bungalow was busy, it wasn’t with any of the stars. Hope Lange and Stephen Boyd lunched daily together in the commissary, and because of these lunches several columnists began to imply that the two were in love. Lange, then married to actor Don Murray, “became so upset over these rumors,” wrote Photoplay, “that she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown.” But of Boyd, who died in 1977, Lange had only fond memories (and she still wondered what aftershave lotion he wore): “During the film we had a great camaraderie. He had that wonderful Irish charm, and wonderful humor. And anyone who has humor I’m a sucker for.”
Even two years later in 1961, when Lange had been linked to actor Glenn Ford, Stephen Boyd took her to the premiere of “The Children’s Hour ” and they danced the night away.'
- Excerpt from Stephen Boyd Blog
'Dream On Little Dreamer' - Perry Como
1960s
1961 - Wild in the Country - Irene Sperry
Elvis Presley & Hope Lange
1961 - Pocketful of Miracles - Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin
Hope Lange & Glenn Ford
1963 - Love Is a Ball - Millicent "Millie" Mehaffey
Hope Lange & Glenn Ford
1968 - Jigsaw - Helen Atterbury
Bradford Dillman & Hope Lange
'Hope Lange was born in Redding Ridge, Connecticut, in 1931, the daughter of a musician father and an actress mother. She was only 12 years old when she made her Broadway début as Anne Randolph in The Patriots (1943), Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer prizewinning play about Thomas Jefferson. Lange gained most of her early experience acting in repertory and on television, including several appearances in the live drama anthology Playhouse 90. It was a Kraft Television Theatre production, Snap Finger Creek (1956), that brought her to the attention of the 20th Century-Fox producer Buddy Adler.'
- Excerpt from 'Hope Lange : A Sensitive Soul' (published in The Independent)
'You Stepped Out Of A Dream' - Vic Damone
1970s
1974 - I Love You... Good-bye - Karen Chandler
1974 - Death Wish - Joanna Kersey
'Director Michael Winner was anxious before production because he was waiting for Charles Bronson to tell him he wanted Jill Ireland to play his wife in the movie, despite Winner's feeling she was unsuitable for the part. Finally he said to Bronson, "Charlie, do you want Jill to play your wife in 'Death Wish'?" Bronson replied, "No. I don't want her humiliated and messed around by these actors who play muggers. You know the sort of person we want? Someone who looks like Hope Lange." Lange was an attractive, blonde, all-American "girl next door" type who had starred in the TV series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968) and The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971). Winner said, "Well, Charlie, the person who looks most like Hope Lange is Hope Lange. So I'll get her." And he did.'
- Movie Trivia, Internet Movie Database
'The Night' - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
1980s
1983 - The Prodigal - Anne Stewart
1983 - I Am the Cheese - Betty Farmer
1985 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - Shirl Walsh
1986 - Blue Velvet - Mrs. Williams
"Small-town America is a tranquil concept — hardworking people living good, moral lives, without a hint of scandal. There are churches, Little League, mom-and-pop diners and the Elks Lodge folks. But simmering beneath the surface are some desperate lives, the pressure to fit in clashing with individual desires. At least, that’s the take by filmmakers from Douglas Sirk to Alfred Hitchcock to David Lynch in countless movies.
Nearly three decades since its debut, Lynch’s groundbreaking “Twin Peaks” TV series finally gets a third season beginning May 21 on Showtime, and the folks at Midnites for Maniacs have programmed an intriguing double bill of twisted views of small-town America on Thursday, May 11, at the Roxie Theater.
First up is “Peyton Place” (6:45 p.m.), producer Jerry Wald and director Mark Robson’s 1957 box office hit starring Lana Turner that created quite the stir, even though production codes at the time had forced a sanitization of Grace Metalious’ scandalous 1956 novel about residents of a New England mill town and their soap-opera lives.
It was said to be an influence for Lynch when he created “Twin Peaks,” and it is paired with Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” (9:45 p.m.), with Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper caught up in a small-town murder mystery. Distinctly Lynchian, “Blue Velvet” (1986) could almost be called a loose remake of “Peyton Place” — or at least it has an edge that Metalious would have appreciated.
Also playing at the Roxie is the new documentary “David Lynch: The Art of Life.”
Nearly three decades since its debut, Lynch’s groundbreaking “Twin Peaks” TV series finally gets a third season beginning May 21 on Showtime, and the folks at Midnites for Maniacs have programmed an intriguing double bill of twisted views of small-town America on Thursday, May 11, at the Roxie Theater.
First up is “Peyton Place” (6:45 p.m.), producer Jerry Wald and director Mark Robson’s 1957 box office hit starring Lana Turner that created quite the stir, even though production codes at the time had forced a sanitization of Grace Metalious’ scandalous 1956 novel about residents of a New England mill town and their soap-opera lives.
It was said to be an influence for Lynch when he created “Twin Peaks,” and it is paired with Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” (9:45 p.m.), with Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper caught up in a small-town murder mystery. Distinctly Lynchian, “Blue Velvet” (1986) could almost be called a loose remake of “Peyton Place” — or at least it has an edge that Metalious would have appreciated.
Also playing at the Roxie is the new documentary “David Lynch: The Art of Life.”
- G. Allen Johnson, SF Gate
'Wicked Game' - Chris Isaak
1990s
1990 - Tune in Tomorrow - Margaret Quince
1994 - Clear and Present Danger - Senator Mayo
1995 - Just Cause - Libby Prentiss
"Fortunately, I don't feel validated just when I work. For me, if I never worked again, it wouldn't matter all that much."
- Hope Lange
