PeterMarshallFan
Dec 22 2003, 10:26 AM
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Actress Hope Lange, best known to television viewers of the late 1960s as an Emmy-winner for her two seasons of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, is dead at the age of 70.
Lange was nominated for an Oscar for her 1957 film role in "Peyton Place." Her husband Charles Hollerith told The Los Angeles Times the actress died of an advanced form of colitis.
After the first season of Mrs. Muir, NBC canceled the series but ABC picked up a second season. Playing opposite Edward Mulhare, Lange brought the former movie role to life for the small screen and won Emmys for both seasons.
She appeared on television game shows during that era, including NBC's You Don't Say! and The Match Game.
Lange was tapped as Jenny Preston, the TV wife of Dick Van Dyke on The New Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS from 1971-74 but the series lost its edge when creator Carl Reiner left the show in a creative dispute with the network midway through the first season.
She appeared in more than 30 films. Her final major one was in 1994 in "A Clear and Present Danger."
In 1958, she made her first game show appearance, jointly appearing with then-husband Don Murray as mystery guests on What's My Line? John Daly asked them both, in regards to the 1956 movie "Bus Stop," "Incidentally, that's where you two met, wasn't it?" Murray answered, "No, we've known each other for about seven years now; we got married during that picture."
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She was also an assistant on a failed 1953 game called "Back That Fact."
WhammyPower
Dec 22 2003, 11:04 AM
She was also on the Match Game week with Gary's & Patti's newborns.
Jimmy Owen
Dec 22 2003, 11:20 AM
She was also an assistant on the Gene Rayburn version of WNBC's Bob Stewart game "The Sky's the Limit." in 1954. She was let go when Monty Hall took over as host. "Muir" was my introduction to her and Chas. Nelson Reilly.
zachhoran
Dec 22 2003, 11:22 AM
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Dec 22 2003, 11:20 AM) |
| "Muir" was my introduction to her and Chas. Nelson Reilly. |
The show was mistakenly referred to as "The Ghost OF Mrs. Muir" on an MG7x SUper Match board, and CNR didn't even mention that was the incorrect title IIRC.
gameshowguy2000
Dec 23 2003, 01:48 AM
She is, in no way, related to Jim Lange, is she?
clemon79
Dec 23 2003, 02:28 AM
| QUOTE (gameshowguy2000 @ Dec 22 2003, 11:48 PM) |
| She is, in no way, related to Jim Lange, is she? |
Even THAT wouldn't make it pertinent.
Jimmy Owen
Dec 23 2003, 04:09 AM
| QUOTE (clemon79 @ Dec 23 2003, 02:28 AM) |
| QUOTE (gameshowguy2000 @ Dec 22 2003, 11:48 PM) | | She is, in no way, related to Jim Lange, is she? |
Even THAT wouldn't make it pertinent.
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O.K. If appearing as a regular model on two game shows is not sufficient, how about this, Tom Kennedy played a role (not as himself) on "Muir" and shared scenes with Ms. Lange. She also played the wife on a TV series that starred the former host of game shows "Laugh Line" and "Mother's Day."
Robert Hutchinson
Dec 23 2003, 07:56 AM
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Dec 23 2003, 04:09 AM) |
| O.K. If appearing as a regular model on two game shows is not sufficient, how about this, Tom Kennedy played a role (not as himself) on "Muir" and shared scenes with Ms. Lange. She also played the wife on a TV series that starred the former host of game shows "Laugh Line" and "Mother's Day." |
That's rather like saying, "If you don't consider chewing gum a food, how about aluminum foil?"
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