Hope Holiday is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Mrs. Margie MacDougall, Jack Lemmon's partner in self-pity on Christmas Eve night, in the Billy Wilder film The Apartment (1960).
A column in the June 30, 1954, issue of the Brooklyn Eagle noted Zee's change of names: "At the Guy Lombardo extravaganza, 'Arabian Night,' the lassie that almost walked away with the show was Hope Holiday.
[8] An August 4, 1950, newspaper column by Dorothy Kilgallen reported, "Hope Zee ... quit 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' last week to become vocalist with Ralph Flanagan's band ..."[9] Holiday is the widow of actor Frank Marth.
[1] In February 2022, Holiday and fellow actress Karen Sharpe gave an interview to Vanity Fair alleging incidents of sexual assault and harassment by the late comic actor Jerry Lewis, who died in 2017.
Holiday detailed an incident on the set of The Ladies Man (1961) in which Lewis lured her to his dressing room, pressed a button to lock the door, and masturbated in her presence without her consent.