Old Lange's Time

Hope Lange, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Peyton Place, the lurid drama about small-town New England scandal, died yesterday at the age of 70. Lange also won back-to-back Emmys as the widow Mrs. Muir in the series The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, mostly for putting up with Charles Nelson Reilly. She also drew attention when she quit The New Dick Van Dyke Show in 1974 after the show's producers refused to air an episode suggesting the married couple was having sex, prompting the show's cancellation. And you thought he had problems with an ottoman.