Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS (born Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel. Throughout his long career, he was honored for his humanitarian work. In 1996, the U.S. Congress honored Bob Hope by declaring him the "first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces." Bob Hope appeared in or hosted 199 known USO shows.
Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer from Barry who later worked as a cleaning woman. She married William Hope in April 1891 and the couple set up home at 12 Greenwood Street in the town, then moved to Whitehall and St George in Bristol, before eventually moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1908. The family emigrated to the United States aboard the SS Philadelphia, and passed inspection at Ellis Island on March 30, 1908. Hope became a U.S. citizen in 1920 at the age of 17. In a 1942 legal document, Hope's legal name is given as Lester Townes Hope. His name on the Social Security Index is also listed as Lester T. Hope. His name as registered at birth was Leslie Towns [sic] Hope.
The Dean Martin Roasts - Bob Hope (Man of the Hour)
Bob Hope Documentary
The Paleface 1948 Bob Hope, Jane Russell Full Length Comedy Western Movie
Bob Hope's Opening Monologue: 1975 Oscars
Bob Hope Christmas Special (1967)
Tonight Show with guest host Jerry Lewis interviewing Bob Hope 1970
Greatest Bob Hope Movie Ever
Bob Hope Special January 18th, 1967
Road to Bali FULL MOVIE, classic comedy starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorthy Lamour
Bob Hope Dick Cavett 1972 Part 1
BOB HOPE'S DAUGHTER, LINDA HOPE, TALKS ABOUT THE DAY HER DAD DIED - LARRY KING LIVE, 2003 {530}
Bob Hope Special October 3rd, 1960
Jack Benny on the Bob Hope Special (Apr 15, 1959) [clip]
Great Dance Routine: James Cagney and Bob Hope
Plot
During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area. His neighbor, Laurie Dwyer, who works at the American base in Gander in the service sector, states she can get a job for Terry, perhaps as a waiter. Terry has a secret crush on Laurie. But Terry also wants to stay at home and take care of his ailing mother, Violet, who is eventually diagnosed with diphtheria. Terry and Violet have a special bond especially over their love of the popular entertainment of the day. Frank - Terry's father and Violet's husband - doesn't quite understand it but appreciates this bond between mother and son. Terry dreams that much of the activity at the Gander Airlines Hotel is fodder for stories to his mother, stories of glamorous movie stars involved with the USO, GI's having flings with local girls who are looking to escape Gander, and war espionage.
Keywords: 1940s, coming-of-age, dying-mother, military-base, music-score-composed-by-director, newfoundland-canada, semi-autobiographical, waiter, world-war-two
Patriotism, Paranoia... and Prizes!
God bless America. Now what's in it for me?
A new kind of comedy about "A New Kind of War".
Agent Batman: Let's try a true or false question: I associate with swarthy characters named Muhammar? Habib? Akmed?::Bob Hope: You do?
Roy Tuttle: You know who's looking good these days?::Jeff Dabney: Who?::Roy Tuttle: John Ashcroft. Mmmm.
Plot
In the late 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who see them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside war. In the late 1980s, they find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decided to return to New York to tell someone about it. What they find when they return is that all of their fellow hippies have become rich yuppies, like everyone else, and that no one wants to save the world anymore -- they just want to buy it.
Keywords: 1960s, 1980s, acid, anti-capitalism, anti-war, cannabis, capitalism, capitalist, drug, drug-culture
Two hippies come back from 1969 to get the bad news. Nobody wants to save the world anymore. They just want to buy it.
They came back after 20 years to find nobody wants to save the world-- They just want to buy it.
[talking to a multicolored statue]::Jesus Monteya: Hey, I'm really into colored chicks, man.
Petra: Where's the lobster?::Jesus Monteya: "I am the lobster, goo goo g'joob."
April Stool: I'm fucking the gardener.::Lloyd Stool: I hate you.::April Stool: I don't care.
Plot
Little Audrey, an avid reader of pulp-fiction detective stories, falls asleep and dreams she is in animal-land investigating the murder of Cock Robin. She questions the animals, many of which resemble famous show-business people, and finds out that it was her own pet-canary who shot the arrow, that killed Cock Robin, meant as a valentine. She awakens, and finds her canary it its cage romancing a bird that resembles Cock Robin.
Keywords: 1950s, arrow, bird, book, bow-and-arrow, cage, canary, caricature, detective, detective-story
Plot
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Keywords: variety-club
Plot
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. But train travel is impossible just after the war. She pleads with an exasperated railroad agent for something, anything. He suggests she go to Paramount Pictures and talk to Bing Crosby, who is in charge of a Victory War Bonds show. The government has arranged a special caravan to Washington for the Hollywood stars. Maybe she could get a ride with them. The next morning, she arrives at the studio. She manages to get past the studio guard, who chases her around the lot. She encounters many stars, including Robert Benchley, Barbara Stanwyck and Alan Ladd. Finally, she meets Bing. The trouble is, if she wants Bing's upper berth, she will have to persuade Bob Hope to share his lower berth.
Keywords: berth, brother-sister-relationship, chase, cigarette-smoking, crying, dance, dancer, dancing, dreaming, exasperation
[last lines]::Bing Crosby: [singing] Buy a bond today. / We've got another bond to buy!
Bing Crosby: [singing] The bonds we bought before / Bought the bomb that won the war. / Now we've got another to bond to buy.
Bob Hope: [after Olga slaps him] She just set the Good Neighbor policy back eight years.
Bob Hope: Here's Miss Olga San Juan singing "Rumba matumba" and putting everything into her singing from south of her border to north of the Hayes Office.
Bob Hope: I even offered to kiss anybody that'd buy a fifty-dollar bond. I only sold one. Boris Karloff wants his money back.
Bob Hope: This is Bob "Hollywood Victory Caravan" Hope telling you not let up on buying those bonds. Don't stop at nuttin' and your bank account will be as well-stacked as Betty Hutton.
Bob Hope: Lard and myself in a lower berth? That's a concentration camp with pajamas.
Man: Came in second.::Bob Hope: And there's a meat shortage.
Bob Hope: I slept with Crosby once. You know what he does all night? He dreams about horses. All night long he kept going: [makes clicking noises] Kept beating me with the bedpost. When I woke up in the morning I'd eaten all the straw out of the mattress.
Alan Ladd: [after tripping Bill] Hey, this is more fun in real life than it is in the movies.
Plot
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. Transcriptions were made of each program and sent to American posts and camps around the world. This entry (Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 20) was broadcast and filmed at a live performace at Camp Roberts, California. Lana Turner, via a request from a group of soldiers, fried a steak, which was brought on stage accompanied by armed guards since this was a rationed and rare item during the war years. Betty Hutton sung "Murder, He Says" and Judy Garland did "Over the Rainbow", and all three guest stars swapped quips and banter with emcee Bob Hope, with Hope usually on the butt-end of the jokes.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, actor, actress, america, american, american-soldier, announcer, bandleader, california, cooking
The Dean Martin Roasts - Bob Hope (Man of the Hour)
Bob Hope Documentary
The Paleface 1948 Bob Hope, Jane Russell Full Length Comedy Western Movie
Bob Hope's Opening Monologue: 1975 Oscars
Bob Hope Christmas Special (1967)
Tonight Show with guest host Jerry Lewis interviewing Bob Hope 1970
Greatest Bob Hope Movie Ever
Bob Hope Special January 18th, 1967
Road to Bali FULL MOVIE, classic comedy starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorthy Lamour
Bob Hope Dick Cavett 1972 Part 1
BOB HOPE'S DAUGHTER, LINDA HOPE, TALKS ABOUT THE DAY HER DAD DIED - LARRY KING LIVE, 2003 {530}
Bob Hope Special October 3rd, 1960
Jack Benny on the Bob Hope Special (Apr 15, 1959) [clip]
Great Dance Routine: James Cagney and Bob Hope
Bob Hope & George Burns, 1990
Tom Hanks Salutes Bob Hope: 2004 Oscars
ALL-STAR REVUE - TV show - Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray - 4-26-52
Bob Hope talks about his money
Bob Hope Christmas With The Troops
1952 - Road to Bali - BING CROSBY & BOB HOPE - Hal Walker | FULL MOVIE
Bob Hope Special September 25th, 1964
Bob Hope Through The Years With The Troops
"JOHN WAYNE AND BOB HOPE HAM IT UP"
Sorrowful Jones 1949 Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, U P
The Muppet Show s02e17 Bob Hope (Full episode)
Bob Hope Special September 28th, 1966
Off Limits 1953 Mickey Rooney Full Lenght Comedy Movie
Bob Hope Special December 15th, 1965
Bob Hope Special December 19th, 1968
My Favorite Brunette Full length Bob Hope Movie
What's My Line? - Clarence "Donald Duck" Nash; Bob Hope (Dec 12, 1954)
What's My Line? - Lucille Ball & Bob Hope; Buddy Hackett [panel] (May 5, 1963)
"Road to Bali" Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour (classic comedy movie)
MORENA Y PELIGROSA (MY FAVOURITE BRUNETTE, 1947, Full movie, Spanish, Cinetel)
Bob Hope Interview & Press Conference (Rare)
Bob Hope on "David Letterman Show" 1985
Bob Hope @ The Oprah Winfrey Show
Bob Hope and Dolores Hope in England 1994
Humphrey Bogart and Bob Hope Cut Up: 1955 Oscars
Bob Hope Interview - 1990
Jonathan Winters discusses working with Bob Hope - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
The Road Films: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
Bing Crosby Receives An Award From Bob Hope
Bob Hope Interview.mp4
Robin Williams Hilarious FULL Interview on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - 1991
Bob Hope talks about Fred MacMurray
Bob Hope interviewed by Des O'Connor (1984)
Bob Hope Ubon Thailand 1965 - Interview with Carroll Baker
Frank Sinatra & Bob Hope 1950 - Frank's 1st TV appearance
Bob Hope talks about golf & politicians
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope: The Cameos
Celebrity Interviews at Bob Hope Classic