Hope Lange

Hope Lange

Born: November 28, 1933
Died: December 19, 2003
in Redding, Connecticut, USA
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Hope Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

Lange was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. In 1969 and 1970, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Title: Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: November 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
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Before He Wakes
Title: Before He Wakes
Character: Helen Rawlings
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that she'll stop at nothing to protect her secrets.
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Title: Frank Capra's American Dream
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
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Just Cause
Title: Just Cause
Character: Libby Prentiss
Released: February 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Clear and Present Danger
Title: Clear and Present Danger
Character: Senator Mayo
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
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Message from Nam
Title: Message from Nam
Character: Marjorie Wilson
Released: October 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War.
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Cooperstown
Title: Cooperstown
Character: Cassie Willette
Released: January 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Dead Before Dawn
Title: Dead Before Dawn
Character: Virginia DeSilva
Released: January 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Based upon a true story. Wife with young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful, but violent and abusive, husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately, for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convince her that she must “pretend” to have been murdered in order to prove her husband’s involvement.
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Tune in Tomorrow...
Title: Tune in Tomorrow...
Character: Margaret Quince
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.
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Title: Knight & Daye
Character: Gloria Daye
Released: July 8, 1989
Type: TV
Knight & Daye is an NBC television sitcom that ran for only seven episodes in the summer of 1989. The show was about Hank and Everett, two former friends that hadn't spoken to each other in years after Everett married the woman they were both interested in, but are reunited for a radio talk show. Their bickering proves to be a ratings bonanza.
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Ford: The Man and the Machine
Title: Ford: The Man and the Machine
Character: Clara Ford
Released: May 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
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Blue Velvet
Title: Blue Velvet
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Character: Cheryl Walsh
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. There, he is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses.
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Private Sessions
Title: Private Sessions
Character: Mrs. Coles
Released: March 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.
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Title: Finder of Lost Loves
Character: Catherine Smith
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: TV
The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private investigator who specialized in finding lost loves from the past for his heartbroken clients.
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I Am The Cheese
Title: I Am The Cheese
Character: Betty Farmer
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Anne Stuart
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
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Title: Matt Houston
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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Pleasure Palace
Title: Pleasure Palace
Character: Madelaine Calvert
Released: October 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Story of a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner from losing his controlling interest to a business syndicate but finds his reputation is on the line when he runs into a mystery lady who seems to operate on both sides of the law.
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Title: Beulah Land
Character: Deborah Kendrick
Released: October 7, 1980
Type: TV
A young Southern belle becomes the mistress of a magnificent plantation.
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The Day Christ Died
Title: The Day Christ Died
Character: Claudia
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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Like Normal People
Title: Like Normal People
Character: Roz Meyers
Released: April 13, 1979
Type: Movie
An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Sandra Newberry
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: Medical Story
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.
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The Secret Night Caller
Title: The Secret Night Caller
Character: Pat Durant
Released: February 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
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Fer-de-Lance
Title: Fer-de-Lance
Character: Elaine Wedell
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
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Death Wish
Title: Death Wish
Character: Joanna Kersey
Released: July 24, 1974
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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I Love You...Good-bye
Title: I Love You...Good-bye
Character: Karen Chandler
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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The 500 Pound Jerk
Title: The 500 Pound Jerk
Character: Karen Walsh
Released: January 2, 1973
Type: Movie
An advertising man's dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymnast.
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That Certain Summer
Title: That Certain Summer
Character: Janet Salter
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
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Title: The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Character: Jenny Preston
Released: September 18, 1971
Type: TV
The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. It was Van Dyke's first return to series television since The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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Crowhaven Farm
Title: Crowhaven Farm
Character: Maggie Porter
Released: November 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
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Title: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Character: Carolyn Muir
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advised of his existence.
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Jigsaw
Title: Jigsaw
Character: Helen Atterbury
Released: June 5, 1968
Type: Movie
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
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Title: CBS Playhouse
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: TV
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Annie Johnson
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Love Is a Ball
Title: Love Is a Ball
Character: Millicent 'Millie' Mehaffey
Released: April 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
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Marilyn
Title: Marilyn
Character: Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1963
Type: Movie
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
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Pocketful of Miracles
Title: Pocketful of Miracles
Character: Elizabeth 'Queenie' Martin
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Wild in the Country
Title: Wild in the Country
Character: Irene Sperry
Released: June 15, 1961
Type: Movie
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
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The Best of Everything
Title: The Best of Everything
Character: Caroline Bender
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
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In Love and War
Title: In Love and War
Character: Andrea Lenaine Kantaylis
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan Newcombe visits his high-living playgirl girlfriend. Each must decide whether to make the best of his situation or break out of it. O'Neill drowns his troubles in alcohol, losing the respect of a potential lover; Kantaylis marries his fiancée, but realizes he may not survive the war to see his child; while Newcombe sheds his decadent girlfriend for a pure-hearted Hawaiian nurse. Later, in battle, a heroic act costs one of the Marines his life.
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The Young Lions
Title: The Young Lions
Character: Hope Plowman
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
The Young Lions follows the lives of three soldiers: one German and two Americans, paralleling their experiences in World War II until they meet up at the end for a confrontation
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Peyton Place
Title: Peyton Place
Character: Selena Cross
Released: December 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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The True Story of Jesse James
Title: The True Story of Jesse James
Character: Zee James
Released: March 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
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Bus Stop
Title: Bus Stop
Character: Elma Duckworth
Released: August 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Roxane
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Mrs. Douglas
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.