Description: Leslie Townes “Bob” Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven “Road To …” musical comedy movies (shown at the bottom) with Bing Crosby as Hope’s top-billed partner. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and wrote 14 books. The song “Thanks for the Memory” was his signature tune. Between 1941 and 1991, Hope made 57 tours for the United Service Organizations, entertaining active duty American military personnel around the world. In 1997, the United States Congress passed a bill that made Hope an honorary veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. Hope retired from public life in 1997 and died on July 27, 2003 at the age of 100 in his Toluca Lake home.
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Soup for Nuts (Short 1934)
( 1934 )
Bob Hope is the Master-of-Ceremonies at New Yock City's Carlton Club, which is going belly-up because the wife, Allyn Gillyn, of the owner, Donald Brian, won't let him book any female singers or acts because he has a penchant for hitting on them, and this makes her somewhat jealous and protective.
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Paree, Paree (Short 1934)
( 1934 )
In this musical short, a condensed version of Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (1929), a wealthy young American meets the girl of his dreams and makes a bet that they will be engaged without her knowing of his riches.
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The Old Grey Mayor (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
Bob and his fiancé try to break the news of their engagement to her father, the mayor, who is having a very bad day.
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Double Exposure (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband absolutely does not want her photographed.
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Shop Talk (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
A former art student returns from Europe to run the department store he inherited from his father and finds his employees behaving very bizarrely.
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College Swing
( 1938 )
Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.
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Give Me a Sailor
( 1938 )
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!
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Thanks for the Memory
( 1938 )
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 6 (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
Movie stars doing radio is the theme: Bob Hope, Irene Rich, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy are seen at NBC; Conrad Nagel, Joe Penner, Ida Lupino, and Edward G. Robinson are seen at CBS; Martha Raye and Parkyakarkus do a comedy routine.
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Never Say Die
( 1939 )
A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.
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Some Like It Hot
( 1939 )
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu o...Read all
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The Cat and the Canary
( 1939 )
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
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The Ghost Breakers
( 1940 )
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
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Caught in the Draft
( 1941 )
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
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Nothing But the Truth
( 1941 )
A stockbroker's new partner bets $10,000 that he can only tell the truth for twenty-four hours.
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Louisiana Purchase
( 1941 )
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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Bob's Busy Day (Short 1942)
Bob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called Dontdoit Day. The road to wedded bliss for Bob and his girl hits a slight bump as his girl catches the eye of a dashing gaucho, and the Mayor, who is the only official in town who can p...Read all
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My Favorite Blonde
( 1942 )
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
( 1942 )
A Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit.
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Strictly G.I.
( 1943 )
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.
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They Got Me Covered
( 1943 )
Fired by his editor for incompetence, idiotic reporter Robert Kittredge sees a chance at redeeming himself when he accidentally uncovers a network of German spies in Washington, D.C.
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Don't Hook Now (Short 1943)
( 1943 )
Scenes of a recent charity golf tournament in California. Bing and Bob clown while Bing sings "Tomorrow is My Lucky Day."
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Let's Face It
( 1943 )
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancée, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the fat farm scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as escorts for the weekend. Complications ensue after the husbands show up unexpectedly.
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The Princess and the Pirate
( 1944 )
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
( 1946 )
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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My Favorite Brunette
( 1947 )
Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.
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Where There's Life
( 1947 )
The American son of an Eastern European monarch wounded in an assassination attempt becomes a target for a terrorist organization.
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The Paleface
( 1948 )
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
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Sorrowful Jones
( 1949 )
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful must evade gangsters and do some horse-thieving.
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The Great Lover
( 1949 )
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
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Fancy Pants
( 1950 )
A fake English butler hired to refine a New Mexican family gets caught in chaos when locals think he's nobility and the President plans to visit.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
( 1951 )
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
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My Favorite Spy
( 1951 )
A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.
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Son of Paleface
( 1952 )
Junior Potter returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. "Mike" is the luscious head of a gang of thieves, and Roy Barton is the federal marshal hot on her trail.
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Off Limits
( 1953 )
Two Army buddies fight, as one falls in love with the other's aunt, a nightclub singer.
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Casanova's Big Night
( 1954 )
A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.
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The Seven Little Foys
( 1955 )
After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.
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That Certain Feeling
( 1956 )
Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan is hired as a ghost-writer by pompous client Larry Larkin who happens to be the fiancé of Dignan's ex-wife.
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The Iron Petticoat
( 1957 )
Russian Captain defects to England, not for politics but due to gender discrimination. English Captain ordered to sell capitalism. Defector argues communism better. They fall in love despite KGB attempts to retrieve her.
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Beau James
( 1957 )
Biopic of the political career of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York City from 1926-1932.
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Paris Holiday
( 1958 )
American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought-after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysterious reason.
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The Facts of Life
( 1960 )
Sophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.
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Bachelor in Paradise
( 1961 )
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
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Critic's Choice
( 1963 )
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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Call Me Bwana
( 1963 )
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it.
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A Global Affair
( 1964 )
A bachelor employee at the United Nations building takes care of an abandoned baby.
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I'll Take Sweden
( 1965 )
An executive, unhappy with his daughter's choice for a future husband, accepts a transfer to his firm's Stockholm branch and takes her along, only to discover that Sweden is far more sexually liberal than the United States.
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Eight on the Lam
( 1967 )
A bank teller is suspected of embezzlement and goes on the run with his seven children.
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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
( 1968 )
During WW2, Sgt. O'Farrell's Pacific unit is demoralized when a Japanese submarine torpedoes an American supply ship containing beer.
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How to Commit Marriage
( 1969 )
Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
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Cancel My Reservation
( 1972 )
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
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Road to Singapore
( 1940 )
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.
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Road to Zanzibar
( 1941 )
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con women.
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Road to Morocco
( 1943 )
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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Road to Utopia
( 1946 )
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
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Road to Rio
( 1947 )
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
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Road to Bali
( 1952 )
Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
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The Road to Hong Kong
( 1962 )
Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.
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