- 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.
- 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.
- Perhaps best known to younger generations as one of the two dirty-word Scrabble-playing old women in Foul Play (1978).
- An alumna of Northwestern School of Speech, she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
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