Casanova’s Big Night (1954). Paramount. Director: Norman Z. McLeod.
The Seven Little Foys (1955). Paramount. Director: Melville Shavelson.
That Certain Feeling (1956). Paramount. Director: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank.
The Iron Petticoat (1956). Paramount. Director: Ralph Thomas.
Beau James (1957). Paramount. Director: Melville Shavelson.
Paris Holiday (1958). United Artists. Director: Gerd Oswald.
Alias Jesse James (1959). United Artists. Director: Norman Z. McLeod.
The Facts of Life (1960). United Artists. Director: Melvin Frank.
Bachelor in Paradise (1961). MGM. Director: Jack Arnold.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962). United Artists. Director: Norman Panama.
Critic’s Choice (1963). Warner Bros. Director: Don Weis.
Call Me Bwana (1963). United Artists. Director: Gordon Douglas.
A Global Affair (1964). MGM. Director: Jack Arnold.
I’ll Take Sweden (1965). United Artists. Director: Fred de Cordova.
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966). United Artists. Director: George Marshall.
Eight on the Lam (1967). United Artists. Director: George Marshall.
The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968). United Artists. Director: Frank Tashlin.
How to Commit Marriage (1969). Cinerama. Director: Norman Panama.
Cancel My Reservation (1972). Warner Bros. Director: Paul Bogart.
The Muppet Movie (1979, cameo). ITC Entertainment. Director: James Frawley.
Spies Like Us (1985, cameo). Warner Bros. Director: John Landis.
BROADWAY SHOWS
Sidewalks of New York (October 3, 1927–January 7, 1928). Book, music, and lyrics by Eddie Dowling and James Hanley.
Ups-a Daisy (October 8–December 1, 1928). Music by Lewis A. Gensler, book and lyrics by Clifford Grey and Robert A. Simon.
Smiles (November 18, 1930–January 10, 1931). Music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Clifford Grey and Harold Adamson, book by William Anthony McGuire.
Ballyhoo of 1932 (September 6–November 26, 1932). Music by Lewis A. Gensler, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, book by Norman H. Anthony.
Roberta (November 18, 1933–July 21, 1934). Music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Otto Harbach.
Say When (November 8, 1934–January 12, 1935). Music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Ted Koehler, book by Jack McGowan.
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (January 30–May 9, 1936). Music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by David Freeman.
Red, Hot and Blue (October 29, 1936–April 10, 1937). Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
RADIO PROGRAMS
The Intimate Revue, sponsored by Bromo-Seltzer, NBC (January 4–April 5, 1935).
Atlantic Family Show, sponsored by Atlantic Oil, CBS (December 14, 1935–September 3, 1936).
The Rippling Rhythm Revue, sponsored by Woodbury soap, NBC (May 9–September 26, 1937).
Your Hollywood Parade, sponsored by Lucky Strike, NBC (December 29, 1937–March 23, 1938).
The Pepsodent Show, Starring Bob Hope, NBC (September 27, 1938–June 8, 1948).
The Swan Show, Starring Bob Hope, NBC (September 14, 1948–June 13, 1950).
The Bob Hope Show, sponsored by Chesterfield, NBC (October 3, 1950–June 24, 1952).
The Bob Hope Show (mornings), sponsored by General Foods, NBC (November 10, 1952–July 9, 1954).
The Bob Hope Show, sponsored by General Foods, NBC (January 7, 1953–July 1, 1953).
The Bob Hope Show, sponsored by the American Dairy Association, NBC (September 25, 1953–April 21, 1955).
TELEVISION MILESTONES
The Star-Spangled Revue, sponsored by Frigidaire (April 9, 1950). First Hope network TV special, broadcast live by NBC on Easter Sunday.
The Colgate Comedy Hour (October 1952–June 1953). One of several rotating hosts on his first regular series.
Academy Awards (March 19, 1953). Host of the first televised Oscar ceremony.
Hope in Greenland (January 9, 1955). First televised holiday tour for the troops.
The Bob Hope Show, sponsored by Chevrolet (1955–57), Plymouth (1958), and Buick (1958–61). A monthly fixture on NBC, and Detroit’s favorite TV star.
Bob Hope in Moscow (April 5, 1958). First network TV show from behind the Iron Curtain.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (September 1963–May 1967). Host of weekly dramatic anthology series, the start of a long association with Chrysler.
Bob Hope Desert Classic (February 1965). NBC covers the first edition of Hope’s Palm Springs golf tournament.
Hope in Vietnam (January 15, 1970). Special on his 1969 Christmas tour draws the largest audience for any entertainment show in TV history to date.
A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (October 24, 1975). First Hope special sponsored by Texaco.
Academy Awards (April 3, 1978). Last of Hope’s nineteen appearances as Oscar host.
Happy Birthday, Bob (May 29, 1978). First of his annual birthday specials, live from the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Bob Hope on the Road to China (September 16, 1979). First American TV special from the People’s Republic of China.
A Masterpiece of Murder (January 27, 1986). Hope’s first and only television movie.
Bob Hope: Laughing with the Presidents (November 23, 1996). Last TV special.
Index
Abbott and Costello, 171, 176, 250, 289
ABC, 218, 235, 245, 455
Academy Awards, Academy Awards ceremonies, 249, 305, 313, 334
Hope’s appearances at, 6, 138–39, 148–50, 166–67, 185, 195, 218, 293–95, 330–32, 386–87, 401, 429–30, 438, 443–44, 484
Hope’s legacy and, 484–85
on television, 293–95, 330–31, 443–44
Vietnam War and, 430–31
Adventures of Bob Hope, The, 15, 271–72
African Queen, The, 285
Agnew, Spiro, 389, 392, 401, 444–45
Hope’s relationship with, 390–93, 423, 429
Air Force, US, 2, 250–52, 305, 314, 384, 466
Hope’s Berlin show and, 251–52, 264
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 326–27, 363–64, 368, 372–73, 380, 393, 409–10
World War II and, 173–74, 191, 198–99, 258
Alaska, 207, 224, 274
Hope’s Christmas tours in, 6, 258–59, 272, 307, 329–30
World War II and, 189–92, 195–96, 204
Alberghetti, Anna Maria, 366
Alberti, Bob, 347, 469
Albrecht, Richard, 462
Aleutian Islands, 189–90, 192, 274, 414
Alger, Horatio, 16
Algiers, 204
Alias Jesse James, 328–29, 332, 354–55
Allen, Barbara Jo, 238, 245
Allen, Fred, 91, 295
radio career of, 7, 86, 129, 133, 137, 237, 275
Allen, Gracie, 74, 143, 156
movie career of, 79, 100, 120, 126, 218
radio career of, 7, 86, 133, 255
Allen, Woody, 5, 233–34, 450, 462
All in the Family, 410, 420, 433
Allman, Elvia, 144
All Quiet on the Western Front, 77, 142
Almond, Edward, 273
Altman, Robert, 406
Ameche, Don, 149, 465
Amos ’n’ Andy, 86, 124, 239
Amsterdam, Morey, 189
Anderson, Loni, 476
Annenberg, Walter, 411
Ann-Margret, 388, 423–24
Anthony, Mark, 276, 311, 427, 435
Anthony, Norman, 83–84
Anything Goes, 108–11
AP, 299, 330, 403, 481
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 49
Archer, Anne, 420
Archerd, Army, 440
Arden, Eve, 107–8
Armed Forces Radio, 188, 208, 217, 235
Armey, Dick, 481
Armstrong, Frank, Jr., 258–59
Armstrong, Neil, 394
Army, US, 252, 288, 290, 296, 325
Hope brothers in, 43–44
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 317, 373, 375, 385, 394–96
Hope’s radio career and, 174, 183, 206, 222
Vietnam War and, 373, 375, 394–96, 407
World War II and, 135, 181, 184, 192, 196, 202–3, 220
Arnaz, Desi, 237–38, 333
Arnaz, Lucie, 476
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 207
Arnold, Jack, 354
Arnold, Roseanne, 476
Astaire, Fred, 60, 80, 92
Arthur, Art, 436
“As Time Goes By,” 199
Atkinson, Brooks, 91, 108
Atlanta, Ga., 72, 195, 215, 218, 377–78
Atlantic City, N.J., 84, 140, 159
Atlantic Family Show, 104–6
Australia, 212–13, 284, 301, 437, 445
Avalon, Frankie, 371
Averback, Hy, 245
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” 269
Bachelor in Paradise, 352
Backus, Jim, 293
Bailey, Mildred, 88
Bailey, Pearl, 265, 313
Baker, Carroll, 371–72, 374
Baker, Josephine, 107
Balanchine, George, 107, 447
Ball, Lucille, 5–6, 312, 398, 441, 444–45, 457, 460, 484
Hope’s movie career and, 256, 281, 332–34, 352
Hope’s radio career and, 237–38
retirement of, 478–79
Ballyhoo of 1932, 80, 83–85, 88, 126
Bardot, Brigitte, 326
Barkley, Alben, 251–52, 295
Barnes, Howard, 85, 126, 250
Barron, Jeff, 462
Barrymore, Ethel, 52
Bart, Peter, 378
Barthel, Joan, 405–6
Baruch, Bernard, 295
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 447–48
Bates, Peg-Leg, 279
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The,” 381
Batts, Diana Lynn, 372
BBC, 185, 299
Beatles, 8, 371, 484
Beatty, Warren, 430–31
Beau James, 316
Bee, Molly, 326
Beery, Wallace, 66, 128
Behar, Richard, 460
Beirut, 457–58
Bell, Book and Candle, 279
Bellamy, Ralph, 420
Beloin, Edmund, 235, 316
Bench, Johnny, 357, 403
Benchley, Robert, 224
Bendix, William, 244
Ben-Hur, 331
Bennett, Constance, 131–32
Bennett, Linda, 388
Bennett, Tony, 265
Benny, Jack, 5–7, 9, 74, 100–101, 116, 127, 140, 243, 323, 401, 408, 464, 484
Academy Awards and, 185, 218
movie career of, 79, 100, 112, 120, 234
radio career of, 7, 86, 129, 133, 137, 175, 177, 183, 223, 255, 291–93, 431
television career of, 5–6, 291, 330
Bergen, Edgar, 7, 107, 189
radio career of, 121–22, 129, 132–33, 137, 175, 192, 223, 255, 293
Bergman, Ingrid, 330
Berkeley, Busby, 101, 124
Berkes, Johnny, 102
Berman, Shelley, 335
Bernhardt, Sarah, 52
Berle, Milton, 96, 295, 341, 346, 455
joke stealing of, 89–90
radio career of, 129–30, 136, 217
television career of, 5–6, 244–45, 255, 265–67, 269, 279, 283, 289, 308, 324, 433, 441
Berlin, 219–21
airlift and, 251, 259, 264
blockade of, 245, 251–52
Hope’s Christmas shows in, 6, 251–52, 259, 264, 278, 327, 377, 393
Berlin, Irving, 131, 176, 236, 251–52, 339
Berra, Yogi, 1
Best, Willie, 163
Bieber, Justin, 17
Big Bird, 447
Big Broadcast, The, 88
Big Broadcast of 1938, The, 5, 108, 112, 115–21, 124–28, 138–39, 151, 215, 285, 476
Billy Jack, 437
Bing Crosby Invitational, 356–57
Bixler, Bob, 340
Blackface Follies, The, 56
Blackmore, Alan, 24–25
blacks, 52–53, 56, 64–65, 149, 163, 392
Blanc, Mel, 222
“Blind Date,” 271
Block, Hal, 197
Blue, Ben, 125
Bluffer’s Guide, The, 426–27
Blyth, Ann, 331
Boasberg, Al, 74–75, 78–79, 84
Bob and Dolores Hope Foundation, 347–48
Bob Hope: The Road Well Traveled (Quirk), 63
Bob Hope British Classic, 450, 456, 458–59
Bob Hope Cultural Center, 466–67
Bob Hope Days, 140, 482
Bob Hope Desert Classic, 15, 355–58, 367, 424, 432, 450, 452, 458, 461, 477
Bob Hope in Moscow, 318–23
Bob Hope on Campus, 435
Bob Hope on the Road to China, 447–50
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, 344–46
Bob Hope’s Bicentennial Star-Spangled Spectacular, 433–34
Bob Hope Theaters, 355, 398, 459
Bob’s Leading Ladies, 287
Boehm, Sidney, 436
Bogart, Humphrey, 285, 308, 462
Bogart, Paul, 420–21
Bohemia, 49
Bolger, Ray, 308
Bolshoi Ballet, 320, 323
Bolton, Martha, 439
Bonnie and Clyde, 387
Boone, Pat, 401
Booth, Shirley, 293
Borden, Al, 342
Born on the Fourth of July, 396
Boston, Mass., 10, 79, 107, 159, 184, 215–16, 252
Hope’s Broadway career and, 99, 102, 109
Bowes, Major Edward, 86–87
Boxoffice, 217
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, 378–79
Boyer, Charles, 141
Boyle, Richard, 395
Boys Industrial School, 42–43
Brackett, Charles, 294
Bradley, Omar, 295
Brady Bunch, The, 135
Brando, Marlon, 313, 330, 453
Brice, Fanny, 4, 107–8
Bride Wore Blinkers, The, 419–20
Bringing Up Baby, 156
British Columbia, 302, 329, 341
Broadway theater, 62, 79, 172, 176, 236, 254, 264, 279, 293, 297, 312, 337, 352, 444
Great Depression and, 82–84
Hope’s career in, 4, 23, 60–61, 66, 80, 83–85, 88, 90–93, 95–96, 98–103, 106–11, 119–24, 126–27, 151, 196, 268, 342, 378, 398, 421, 447, 476, 480, 535
Hope’s movie career and, 100–102, 107–8, 120–21, 126, 196
Hope’s radio career and, 123–24
Hope’s vaudeville career and, 84–85, 90
Broccoli, Albert “Cubby,” 353
Brooke, Eleanor, 312
Brooklyn, N.Y., 70–71, 100
Brown, Joe E., 79, 189
Brown, John Mason, 91
Brown, Les, 264, 272, 401, 435
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 259, 326, 330, 366–68, 372–73, 381
Hope’s radio career and, 238, 245
Browning, Tod, 59
Bruce, Lenny, 3, 335, 484
Bruner, June, 219
Brush, Charles F., 35
Bryant, Anita, 336, 338, 366, 369, 371–72, 379, 381
Buckner, Simon, 190
Buck Privates, 171
Bunker, Ellsworth, 385
Bunker, Wally, 136
Bureau of Sunday Censorship, 79
Burke, Billie, 107
Burke, Johnny, 152, 167–68, 193, 224, 229
Burke, Rory, 229, 277–78
Burns, George, 9, 74, 143, 156, 243, 464
movie career of, 79, 100, 120, 126, 287
radio career of, 7, 86, 133, 165, 255
television career of, 398, 445, 455, 475
Bush, George H. W., 438, 468, 470, 477
Bush, George
W., 482–83
Bush, Prescott, 295
Butler, David, 171, 193–94
Butler, Frank, 151–52, 167, 186, 193
Butterfield, James, 280
Buttons, Red, 483
“Buttons and Bows,” 249, 273
Byrne, George:
Broadway career of, 60–61
Hope’s partnership with, 55–61, 63–64, 69
Caesar, Sid, 267, 279, 289, 312, 323–24, 483
café society, 83
Cagney, James, 184, 218, 300–301
Cahn, Sammy, 286
Caine, Michael, 280
California Federal Savings, 466, 474
Calling All Tars, 102
Call Me Bwana, 352–53
Call Me Lucky (Crosby and Martin), 296
Campbell, Glen, 401
Cambodia, 400, 407
Canby, Vincent, 484
Cancel My Reservation, 419–21
Cantor, Eddie, 79, 162, 167, 239, 243, 279, 289, 425
Capitol Family Show, 86
Capitol Records, 227, 249, 271
Capitol Theatre, 85, 87–89, 104, 122, 150
Capone, Al, 73
Capra, Frank, 182
Capstaff, Al, 173
Captain China, 264
Caranchini, Silvio, 337, 342, 376
Carlin, George, 3
Carmichael, Hoagy, 138
Carol Burnett Show, The, 439
Carpetbaggers, The, 371
Carr, Justine (cousin), 349
Carr, Vikki, 422
Carroll, Carroll, 205
Carroll, Madeleine, 133, 141, 186–87
Carroll, Sidney, 201
Carson, Johnny, 7, 310, 433–34, 436, 441–42, 444–45, 455–56, 460–61, 463–65, 470, 475–76
Carter, Jack, 483
Carter, Jimmy, 435, 444, 447, 450, 455–56
Carvel, Tom, 461
Casanova’s Big Night, 297–98
Casper, Billy, 356
Cassidy, Hopalong, 266
Castle, Vernon and Irene, 48
Castro, Fidel, 336
Cat and the Canary, The, 5, 139, 145–48, 150, 158, 162–63, 172
Caulfield, Joan, 233
Caught in the Draft, 5, 171–73, 188, 296
Cavett, Dick, 2, 450, 461
CBS, 237, 269, 455
Lucille Ball’s retirement and, 478–79
radio and, 86, 104, 106, 185, 216, 254–55, 292
television and, 245, 283, 289, 308
Cernadas, Alberto, 236
Chamberlain, Hazel, 54
Champion, 265
Chandler, Happy, 199
Chaney, Lon, Jr., 235
Chapin, Dwight, 391, 411
Chaplin, Charlie, 4, 40–41, 139, 164, 187, 234
Charles, Ray, 398
Charo, 445
Chase, Mary, 62
Chesterfield, 270, 283, 291
Chevalier, Maurice, 120, 220, 298
Chevrolet, 305, 308, 324, 330
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