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.
Famous quotes containing the words hope and/or holiday:
“... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].”
—Sara Bard Field (1882–1974)
“You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)