European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Langer a career never stopped after film with Monroe by Vernon Scott up Hollywood reporter there were two Beautiful blondes in the movie bus Stop. The world remembers Only one. Marilyn Monroe. Asked to identify the second Young actress those who saw the 1956 film version of the William Inge drama snap their fingers and try to recollect Ber name. Hope Lange. It was Lange s motion picture debut. She was 25 and working with the no 1 superstar in the world a Glamour Girt of staggering popularity. An icon. Lange never had that Impact. Nor has any other actress before or since. Monroe was a whirlwind a searing Supernova who burned too brightly and died tragically six years after bus Stop Lange went on to become a popular if not spectacular leading lady for More than a decade in such movies As Peyton place a love and War the Best of everything wild in the country the Young Lions with Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando and pocketful of miracles with Bette Davis for Dirac Tor Frank Capra. When movie offers waned Lange turned to to starring in the sitcoms the ghost and mrs. Muir for which she won two emmy and 77ic new Dick Van Dyke show. In recent years she has worked in to movies and episodic shows. Time and tide have treated her Well. She remains Lovely and Serene. She lives quietly in a secluded wooded area above Beverly Hilts with her producer husband Charles Hollerith relaxing on a recent afternoon with a Glass of Orange juice in her living room Lange gave thoughtful attention to the question would she have traded places with Marilyn Monroe in bus Stop she smiled and said a no. Not then or at any other time in my  Lange had Many scenes with Monroe in bus Stop but Only one in which the actresses appeared together alone. A a when it came time for my closeup Marilyn Wasny to there a Lange said laughing. Quot she was chronically late and delayed the schedule but she was Good very Good. "1 think she was always unhappy. I never envied her. Quot my life and work Are rewarding. In a very Happy and i have been Over the years. I never thought of a a a Marilyn Monroe Falls from a ramp while filming a Rodeo scene for the 1956 movie bus Stop ,. International nows photos Hope Lange at the Young Lions  �?T58. Myself As a driven actress. But performing is an interesting Way of life. I did Cooperstown with _ Alan Arkin for a Cable show last year. It was wonder Ful. We just snapped everything into place and made it real. Quot now i do six or seven Small roles a year but i still done to have enough time to get everything done during the Day running errands going to the Bank the Market. I see friends and have lunch. Chuck and i go to new York where we have an apartment and to Michigan where Chuck was raised. A acting was different when i was younger. It used to be More fun l find i could t care less about a  to be honest in a about ready to move to Connecticut except id miss my friends  because Lange did not attain major stardom and never lost touch with her Connecticut Yankee common sense she escaped developing an inflated sense of her own importance. She is not embittered. She was never a household name but neither has she suffered the travails of Lana Turner Rita Hayworth Ava Gardner Hedy Lamarr and a Hundred other actresses who enjoyed the limelight. Lange graciously accepts the fact that Alt actresses have a limited life Span As movie Queens. Quot Admire Angela Lunsbury and the work she a doing on her series a she said of the venerable Star p of murder she wrote. Quot i be done some guest shots with her but i done to think i could handle a difficult schedule like that. A a in be always tried to put my personal life ahead of my career. I never cared about becoming a Glamour girl. Most of my roles were pretty representative of american women. I never did any nude scenes. That Wasny to my style or image. "1 was never larger than life off screen. Elizabeth Taylor is but she seems really Happy now. She a paid her dues and she a surviving. A this is a very hard town on women. Hollywood is youth oriented. Once an actress turns 35, she begins to Fel like a Brontosaurus. It s different for men who can work into their 60s and 70s. A but in a not complaining and 1 have no regrets. In a leading the sort of life in be always  a summer wind lacking in Sinatra a autumn by Mike littwin the Baltimore Sun its late everyone else is in bed and in a Chan no surfing because i done to have much else going on in my life. When i get to mtg who a staring me in the face but Tony Bennett Tony Bennett on mtg Tony Bennett docs videos what a next Alistair Cooke hosting Beavis and Dutt had for a moment 1 thought the Bennett video was either a practical joke or an engineers mistake. Then it hit me what we have Here is a trend. Tony Bennett son mtg at the same time Frank Sinatra has a smash album. Call it the revenge of the grown ups. The Sinatra album a called ducts a is basically a Novelty act kind of like the chipmunks except with better arrangements. The concept is you take Sinatra and team him up with a lot of other stars to sing the standards Franks Way. This is great on a couple of Levels and disturbing Only on  its great that people who think love me two times is a Standard get to hear summer wind come rain or come Shine you can to take that away from me witchcraft and the rest. / what a better is that the younger stars particularly Luther Vandross and Anita Baker completely upstage the old Man who just can to sing  you re my age you understand my Joy. In the �?T60s, Frank hated everything Young including Rock v Roll. What the chairman n of the Board As he was called liked was Sammy and Dean and some Oil your major mob Bosses. He was holding the line on civilization at least As he understood it for the nonfat. Tired. Scotch sipping Chicks and cats of his Era. The maddening thing about Sinatra As a hate object was the wonder of his work. He owned every song he Ever made. Even today Frank has the phrasing Down exactly ineffably. Its the voice at age 77, that a completely shot. Frank s still on the Road where he sings using a talc prompter but the voice has definitely Hung Mem up. Just listen. He certainly can t compete with barbra or Liza or aretha or for hat matter the still tuneful Tony Bennett. Even Gloria Estefan soars Over Frank although Bono who teams up in i be got a you under my skin makes it Clear that he either did no to understand the assignment or Wasny to up to it. This is the first bad thing that Ever happened to Frank if you done to count his children a singing careers. So where s the problem technology and fraud. The album is As honest ased Rollins. You see there Are no real ducts. Nobody Sang with anybody. Somebody Sang in l.a., somebody else Sang in new York and somebody else entirely mixed the sounds together to make it seem like everyone was in the same studio. Frank who would t know Bono if he tripped Over him never met him. When barbra a cooing Quot you make me Blush Francis in in be got a crush on you she could be calling it in on her car phone. How do ivc know what to believe now this is much More dangerous than cloning. Did he beatles really sing together did they even know each other and what about the maharishi and if you can bring people together like that what a to Stop somebody from pairing up Rush Lim Baugh and Pat Buchanan talk about scary. This All began when Natalie Cole who a wonder Ful on the Sinatra album teamed up with her late dad. That was kind of Nice if Raybe a wee bit  knows where it la end the next thing you know it could be Pricilla Presley and Nash. December 5, 1993 sunday