Sarah Hope Summers

 Sarah Hope Summers (June 7, 1896 – June 22, 1977), known as Hope Summers.

Summers was a character actress known for her work on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD, portraying Clara Edwards. A regional actress who often performed in one-woman shows, She made her network television debut in 1951 on the soap opera Hawkins Falls, broadcast from Chicago. She was past fifty when she came to Hollywood to begin her career as a character player. Hope Summers first attracted attention in 1958 in the semi-regular role as Hattie Denton on the western series The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors. She guest starred on dozens of series including Maverick, Wagon Train, State Trooper, Rescue 8, Peter Gunn, Dennis the Menace, It's a Man's World, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hazel, Gunsmoke, and The Danny Thomas Show, among others. She made thirty-six appearances on the Andy Griffith Show during the 1960s (in earlier episodes her character was called Bertha), and five appearances on the post-Griffith spinoff, Mayberry R.F.D.. Her film work usually was in quite small parts, often unbilled, but she had a credited part as Mrs. Gilmore, one of the kindlier members of the witches' coven at the heart of Rosemary's Baby (1968). In the 1970's, Sarah Summers was the voice for Mrs. Butterworth's syrup commercials with actress Kim Fields. She acted until 1978, a year before her death from congestive heart failure in 1979, aged 83, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.