Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange (1885–1942), was a musician (cellist) and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen and her mother, Minette (née Buddecke) (1898–1970), was an actress. They had three daughters; Minelda L. Jiras (1922–2004), Joy ...
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Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange (1885–1942), was a musician (cellist) and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen and her mother, Minette (née Buddecke) (1898–1970), was an actress. They had three daughters; Minelda L. Jiras (1922–2004), Joy L. Boardman, (1927–2007), Hope Lange and a son, David Lange. John worked in New York City and the family moved to Greenwich Village when Hope was a young child.
Minette heard of a child's part in Life, Laughter and Tears and Hope sang with other children in the play that opened at the Booth Theatre in March 1942. At age 9, Lange had a speaking part in the award winning Broadway play, The Patriots, that opened in January 1943.
John Lange died in September 1942 but the family stayed in New York City. Minette ran a restaurant on Macdougal Street...
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