{{Short description|American model and actress (1938–2023)}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc --> | image = | imagesize = 150px | name = Teri Hope | issue = September 1958 | birth_name = Natalie Hope Reisberg | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|2|19}} | birth_place = Kittanning, Pennsylvania, U.S.<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QM5RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MWwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=teri-hope&pg=7111%2C2979156</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|9|26|1938|2|19}} | death_place = Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. | height = {{height|ft=5|in=2}}<ref name="PPG2" /> | preceded = Myrna Weber | succeeded = Mara Corday, Pat Sheehan | website = }}
'''Teri Hope''' (born '''Natalie Hope Reisberg''', February 19, 1938 – September 26, 2023) was an American model and actress.<ref name="Lisanti2008" /> She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1958 issue.<ref name="Lisanti2008">{{cite book|author=Tom Lisanti|title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCUSa_GmDo8C&pg=PA98|accessdate=27 October 2012|year=2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3172-4|pages=98–100}}</ref> Her centerfold was photographed by Don Bronstein and Mike Shea.
Hope was born on February 19, 1938. She attended Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<ref name=PPG2>{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=Earl|title=Pittsburgh's Teri Hope, in a Bikini, Almost Beaches a Spanish Ship|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QM5RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MWwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=teri-hope&pg=7111%2C2979156|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Sun-Telegraph|accessdate=October 28, 2012|date=1960-06-12}}</ref><ref name=PPG>{{cite web|title=Teri Hope, Native Girl, Comes Home|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zm0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G2wDAAAAIBAJ&dq=teri-hope&pg=7304%2C5702904|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|accessdate=October 28, 2012|date=1961-11-28}}</ref> While attending a ''Playboy''-themed party at the Beta Sigma Rho (now merged with Pi Lambda Phi) fraternity house, chapter members proclaimed her the "Party Playmate" and submitted her photos to ''Playboy''.<ref name="Lisanti2008" />
Hope went on to enjoy a modest acting career in the 1960s, including appearances in two Elvis Presley movies, 1963's ''Fun in Acapulco'' and 1964's ''Roustabout''.<ref name="Lisanti2008" />
Teri Hope was married to Jay Redack and died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on September 26, 2023, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite web |title=Teri Hope Redack |url=https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/albuquerque-nm/teri-redack-11475474 |website=Neptune Society |access-date=4 October 2023}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Films=== * ''Pajama Party'' (1964)<ref name="Lisanti2008" /> * ''Roustabout'' (1964) (uncredited) as College student * ''Fun in Acapulco'' (1963) as Janie Harkins * ''Gypsy'' (1962) (uncredited)<ref name="Lisanti2008" /> * ''Force of Impulse'' (1961) as Bunny Reese<ref name="PPG2" /><ref name="PPG" />
===Television=== * ''Hennesey'' - "The Best Man" (1962) (credited as Terry Hope) as Nurse<ref name="Lisanti2008" /> * ''The Gertrude Berg Show''<ref name="Lisanti2008" /> ** "Dad's Day" (1962-03-29) (credited as Terry Hope) as Susan ** "Goodbye, Mr. Howell" (1962-02-15) (credited as Teri Hope) as Susan
==See also== * List of people in Playboy 1953–1959
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{playmate|teri-hope|Teri Hope}} * {{IMDb name|id=0394047|name=Teri Hope}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, Teri}} Category:1938 births Category:2023 deaths Category:1950s Playboy Playmates Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni Category:American film actresses