She provided the voice for "Mrs. Butterworth" the famous talking maple
syrup bottle.
Started in radio in Chicago in 1939 and played nearly every show that
originated there. She also founded two stock companies in Chicago in
which she both produced and acted.
Perhaps best known to younger generations as one of the two dirty-word Scrabble-playing old women in Foul Play (1978).
The daughter of John William Summers, a member of Congress, and Virginia Summers, Hope Summers' two brothers had successful business careers and later entered the Diplomatic Corps.
An alumna of Northwestern School of Speech, she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.