- Lost her contract with Jerry Lewis and Paramount after she got carried away with her slap scene with Lewis in his movie The Ladies Man (1961).
- Originally auditioned for Joyce Jameson's "Marilyn Monroe"-like character in The Apartment (1960) but Billy Wilder thought better and re-auditioned her for the "Margie MacDougall" role.
- Her older sister Judy (Sinclair) was also a singer/actress and both debuted on Broadway in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starring Carol Channing in 1949. Judy quickly retired from the business after marriage.
- Was fired in the early 1950s as a band singer with Ralph Flanagan's outfit because her voice wasn't good enough.
- At the age of eight or nine she studied tap with Fred Kelly, the brother of Gene Kelly, and modern dance with Hanya Holm and Jose Limon.
- Her father, Allan Zee, former night manager of WHN radio in New York City, produced live shows at Loew's Capitol Theatre in both New York and Washington. Her mother Doris Priscillia was a showgirl.
- As a student she attended P.S. 117 in Jamaica, Forest Hills High School in Garden Hills and Rhodes in New York but never graduated from high school.
- Her first husband, Sandy Glass, was an agent at the William Morris Agency. Hope was a client with the agency at the time.
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