Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage and television actress. Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange , was a cellist and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen; her mother, Minette , was an actress. They had three daughters, Minelda , Joy, , and Hope, and a son, David. John worked in New York City and the family moved to Greenwich Village when Hope was a young child. Hope sang with other children in the play Life, Laughter and Tears, which opened at the Booth Theatre in March 1942. At age 9,... Lange had a speaking part in the award-winning Broadway play The Patriots, which 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 near Washington Square Park from 1944 to 1956. The name was "Minette's of Washington Square", although some sources confuse it with "Minetta Tavern", an Italian restaurant on Macdougal Street founded in 1937.
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