Hope Holiday (November 30, 1938) was born in New York, NY. She has extensive Broadway musical comedy background and has acted in 1960s, '70s and '80s film and TV. Perhaps her best film role was that of "Mrs. Margie MacDougall," Jack Lemmon's partner in self-pity on Christmas Eve night, in the Billy Wilder film The Apartment (1960). She has also produced and directed films. She is married to actor Frank Marth.
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“I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,—am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”
—Billie Holiday (1915–1959)