Hope Summers
Sarah Hope Summers ( born June 7, 1896 in Mattoon, Illinois, † June 22, 1979 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Summers attended Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston, where she worked as a teacher after graduation. Later, she transferred to the Bradley University in Peoria. It was only in the 1930s aimed at an acting career and started this at local theaters and local radio stations. In 1951, she won the role of Belinda Catherwood in an early soap opera called Hawkins Falls, Population 6200th Only with well over 50 years, they had 1957 Thriller 714 does not answer her feature film debut. Further, usually small movie roles she had, among other things in Robert Wise's film drama Let me live, Stanley Kramer's legal drama Inherit the Wind, William Wyler's film adaptation Infam, Roman Polanski's horror film Rosemary's Baby, as well as in Henry Hathaway's Western mortal enemies.
From the early 1950s, Summers regularly played guest roles on such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Gunsmoke. A certain familiarity with the U.S. television audience she gained through the recurring guest role of Hattie Denton in the Western series West of Santa Fe, she represented in sixteen episodes 1958-1960. Between 1961 and 1968 she appeared as Clara Edwards in 32 episodes of the Andy Griffith Show. One of her last roles they had in the 1978 Chevy Chase comedy A very little round the bend, in the following year, she died of heart failure.