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major decisions to Don. who is her severest critic as ivell as being her most ardent admirer ticularly good at cooking Continental food, using lots of wines and herbs. While Don prefers the simple foods, like roast leg of lamb with pan-browned potatoes, her best dish is fettucini. Both like artichokes, asparagus, broccoli — all sorts of vegetables, in fact. Both drink very little, and while Hope has coffee. Don passes it by. Neither likes desserts. A New Yorker at heart, she misses the Broadway theatres, the small, fashionable restaurants and the four distinct seasons. What she enjoys most about Hollywood is the sun. the casual living, being able to drive a car all the time . . . but she still doesn't like to see women shopping in slacks. She thinks the new sack dresses are perfectly dreadful, and that they are doomed because women will get tired of never having a waistline. She never reads reviews, finds them infuriating because they often condemn good acting when the story is not equally good. Hope likes to paint and draw, but has never (she says) turned out anything good enough to frame. She likes to have her home filled with flowers, and is partial to daisies and carnations. She thinks gardening is too time-consuming as a hobby, otherwise would like to try it. She thinks the two men who have influenced her most in her career are director-coach Paton Price, and actor Don Murray. The three women she admires most in the world are Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Pandit and Helen Keller. The three men she'd like most to meet are Adlai Stevenson. Laurence Olivier and Leonard Bernstein. She has no preference between the movies, theatre and TV for her own career — because she thinks the well-rounded actress should try all mediums. She's reserved on the subject of psychoanalysis for actors, believes it can help some and is ruinous for others. Strictly feminine in both manner and figure. Hope is an active, athletic girl. She is a competent skier, a good ice-skater, swims well and plays a fair game of tennis. She admits to a mad fondness for jewelry, owns a gold charm bracelet with charms representing all the important things in her life — one is a tiny gold house! Her favorite colors are lavender, greens, and soft yellow. Neither quick with a smile or laugh. Hope Lange does not always give the impression that she has a rich sense of humor . . . that she enjoys a laugh, even when she's responsible for it. This was never more evident than when she was an assistant emcee on an NBC-TV show called, "'The Sky's The Limit." She read off the names, handed out the prizes, and was also supposed to do the commercials. SHORTLi after I joined the show, we had a new sponsor who made an aerated whipped cream," Hope grinned. "As my first commercial, I was to decorate a custard pie with a whipped cream border, and it was a catastrophe. After saying impressively. 'Ladies! See how easy, how simple, to make gorgeous desserts — no messy beaters, no dirty bowls, no fuss or mess . . .' I proceeded to upend the whipped cream can — and the most horrible noises broke loose! First, it grumbled and growled and nearly drowned out my voice — and then it practically exploded in my hands!" TV audiences will long remember that commercial. Whipped cream spurted in every direction — all over the pie, the table. Hope's hands and dress, and even onto the TV' camera televising the disaster. Instead of being horrified, Hope finished the commercial to the bitter end. shaking with laughter. Knowing that she would be fired, she added. "Of course, it doesn't always work this way!" She was fired, all right. Also, after that, they put the commercial on film. Hope Lange was born in Redding Ridge. Connecticut, and her birthday comes along even," November 28. Her father, John Lange. who died in 1942. was a cellist, composer and musical arranger with the old Ziegfeld company. Her mother is Minnette Buddecke. a talented Broadway and Shakespearean actress. Hope is one of four children. A sister. Minelda. is the wife of Robert Jiras, CBS-TV's make-up head in New York. Another sister. Joy. is Mrs. Harry Boardman. whose husband is with the Ford Foundation. Her brother. David Lange, is studying English as a sophomore at Harvard and hopes to be a director after he graduates. A cousin, Dorothea Lange, continued on page 70 THE MURRAYS prefer their evenings quiet. They love sitting in front of the fire after one of Hope's superbly cooked meals. 45