Temple, Shirley, 171, 256, 258
Templeton, Dick, 106
Templeton, Fay, 90
Ten Commandments, The, 308–9
Terry, Ellen, 27
Texaco, 299, 432–33, 445, 466
Texaco Star Theater, 244, 265
Thailand, 188, 366, 372, 380–81, 385, 388, 393–94, 409–10, 414
Thanks for the Memory (movie), 127, 137–39
“Thanks for the Memory” (song), 2, 5, 108, 115–19, 125–28, 131–32, 137–38, 142, 212, 282, 380, 422, 442, 445, 463, 469, 476
That Certain Feeling, 312–14
Thaw, Harry K., 52
“There’s No Business Like Show Business,” 330
They Got Me Covered (Hope), 15, 175
They Got Me Covered (movie), 189, 195
39 Steps, The, 186
This Is Your Life, 291, 403
Thomas, Bob, 299, 403, 443
Thomas, Danny, 5–6, 346, 445
Thomas, Dave, 462, 477
Thomas, Patty, 305
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 259, 330, 337
World War II and, 209–12, 219
Thomas, Ralph, 315
Thompson, Edgar A., 123
Thompson, Harlan, 108, 112
Thompson, Llewellyn, 320
Three Stooges, 250
Thule Air Base, 305–6
Thurber, James, 172
Ticonderoga, USS, 373–74
Time, 110–11, 176, 227, 345, 387, 401, 484
Hope’s movie career and, 171, 258
World War II and, 200, 204–5
Times of London, 10
Timex, 324, 344, 432
Toast of the Town, 266, 289
Toluca Lake, Calif., 263
Hope’s residences in, 8, 13, 128, 157, 161, 228–30, 242, 246, 278, 300, 345, 347, 349, 376, 389, 392–93, 411, 424, 439, 446, 472, 481–82
Tonight Show, 310, 433–34, 436, 441–42, 446, 463–65, 470, 475
Towering Inferno, The, 429
Towns, Jack (uncle), 24
Towns, John (grandfather), 24
Towns, Sarah (grandmother), 24
Townsend, Peter, 309
Trammell, Niles, 237
Tranh, Nguyen Van, 409
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, 112
Treacher, Arthur, 279
Trigger, 282–83, 291
Troxell, Grace Louise (first wife):
divorce of, 95–96
Hope’s partnership with, 68, 70–74, 79, 94–95, 97
marriages of, 12, 94–95, 97
True Grit, 401
Truman, Harry, 219, 240, 245–46, 251, 264, 274, 288, 435
Truman, Margaret, 240, 246
Truska, Avis (niece), 424
Tucker, Sophie, 53
Tugend, Harry, 171
Tunisia, 201, 203
Turkey, 365, 393
Turner, Lana, 182, 302, 352
Turner, Ted, 465
Turrell, Harry, 66
Tush, Bill, 480–81
Twelve O’Clock High, 258
Twentieth Century-Fox, 305, 323, 384, 437
“Two Sleepy People,” 138
Tyre, Norman, 311
Ulanova, Galina, 321
Umqualia the Spanish Queen, 63
Unger, Leonard, 409
United Artists, 285–86, 316, 319
United Nations, 353–54, 364
United Provision Company, 76, 231
United Service Organizations (USO), 6, 188, 194–97, 199–200, 210, 214, 226, 326, 374, 376–77, 382, 402, 413, 444, 451, 456, 458, 460
Universal, 127, 253, 310, 344, 349, 376, 388
UPI, 328, 366, 432
Ups-a Daisy, 66, 80
Valentino, Rudolph, 232
Vallee, Rudy, 77, 86–87, 90
Van Heusen, Jimmy, 167–68, 193, 224, 286
Variety, 139, 141, 159, 295, 339, 440, 482
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 259, 388, 404
Hope’s movie career and, 164, 176, 282, 297–98, 301, 314, 355, 421
Hope’s radio career and, 104, 124, 132, 145, 238, 292
Hope’s television career and, 299, 308, 314, 330, 342, 355, 466, 479
vaudeville and, 53, 59, 68, 71–73, 75, 79, 87, 89, 99
World War II and, 181, 184
Variety Clubs International, 390
“Varsity Drag,” 102
vaudeville, 196, 251, 300, 307, 365, 388, 421
“Antics” shows and, 75–77
Cleveland and, 46, 49–51, 57, 59, 64–65, 70, 74–76
Crosby’s career in, 88–89, 150
demise of, 59–60, 72, 80–81
emceeing in, 54, 61–63, 65–66, 78, 84, 88
ethnic stereotypes in, 52–53, 61
Frank Fay’s career in, 62, 75
history of, 52–53, 59–60, 68
Hope’s Broadway career and, 80, 84–85, 102, 111
Hope’s brothers and, 231–32
Hope’s career in, 3–4, 6–7, 12–13, 17, 49–81, 84–90, 94–95, 98–99, 104–5, 111, 120, 122–23, 127–28, 130, 150, 153, 231–32, 264–65, 267–68, 272, 299, 311, 315, 335, 339–40, 343, 348, 351, 426
Hope’s movie career and, 79, 81, 120, 186, 284
and Hope’s partnership with Byrne, 55–61, 63–64, 69
and Hope’s partnership with Durbin, 49–50, 51, 53–55
and Hope’s partnership with first wife, 68, 70–74, 79, 94–95
and Hope’s partnership with second wife, 98–99
Hope’s personal appearances and, 226–27, 279–80
“Keep Smiling” and, 68–69
Keith-Orpheum circuit in, 69–72, 74, 77–80, 85
radio and, 86, 105, 123
television and, 81, 268
Veeck, Bill, 228
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 2–3, 15, 221, 272–73, 338, 359, 390–97, 426, 434, 444, 450
Academy Awards and, 430–31
as beautiful thing, 405–6
casualties in, 367, 375, 394, 396, 405, 407, 412, 431
and demonization of Hope, 407–8, 411
end of, 391, 415
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 6, 364–88, 393–97, 401–4, 408, 410–11, 413–15, 457–58
Hope’s politics and, 368, 375, 377–79, 381–83, 391–92, 394, 402, 404–5, 413, 429, 435
increased bombing of north in, 411–14
Nixon and, 3, 390–91, 393–95, 400, 404, 409, 411–16, 422
opposition to, 3, 368, 370–72, 375, 377–79, 381, 385–86, 388, 391–93, 395, 400, 404, 407–8, 430, 435
peace talks in, 387, 409–10, 413–15, 422, 430
prisoners in, 395–96, 407–10, 413, 415–16
and withdrawal of US troops, 391, 410, 413, 430
Village People, 446
Vinger, Sandy, 474
Vogue Club, 92–94
Voice of the City (Snyder), 64
Vonnegut, Kurt, 450
Waikiki Wedding, 116, 151
Wakely, Jimmy, 259, 272
Walkabout, 437
Walker, Hal, 196, 208, 224
Walker, Jimmy, 60, 82, 316
Walker, Marshall, 61
Walrath, Florence, 143
Walsh, Howard “Happy,” 45–46
Walt, Lew, 381
Wanger, Walter, 149, 218
Warhol, Andy, 450
Waring, Fred, 207
Warner, Harry, 142
Warner, Jack, 378
Warner, John, 444
Warner Bros., 189, 232
Warner Vitaphone, 101–2
Washington, DC, 184, 195, 304, 319, 341, 377, 379, 422, 438, 457, 477
Honor America Day in, 400–401
Hope honored in, 2, 460, 481–82
Hope’s benefit appearances and, 219, 375
Hope’s seventy-fifth birthday and, 444–45, 460
state dinners in, 434–35
White House Correspondents’ Association dinners and, 207, 264, 295
Washington Post, 402, 428, 444
Washington Star, 277
, 451
Watch the Birdie, 102
Watergate scandal, 423, 428–29, 434
Wayne, John, 229, 279, 401, 422, 435
Wayne, Josie, 229
Webb, Harry, 73
Welch, Raquel, 380, 384–85, 483
Welch, Robert, 227
Weld, Tuesday, 365, 371
Welk, Lawrence, 356
Welles, Orson, 218
Wellman, Manly Wade, 437
West, Mae, 120
Westerner, The, 162
Westmore, Wally, 119
Westmoreland, William C., 368, 372, 379, 382, 385, 393
What’s My Line?, 329
Whedon, Glenn, 206
“When the Moon Comes over the Mountain,” 189
“Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day,” 88
Where There’s Life, 235
White, Les, 343, 432
White, Stanford, 52
“White Christmas,” 252, 380
White House Correspondents’ Association dinners, 207, 264, 295
White House tapes, 412, 428–29
Whiteman, Paul, 88, 105
White Oak Ranch, 232
Whiting, Jack, 127
Whiting, Margaret, 271, 292–93, 305–6
Whitney, Dwight, 351
Whitney, Jock, 318
Who Fears the Devil?, 437–38
Wiere Brothers, 241
Wilder, Billy, 135, 139
Wilder, Patricia “Honey Chile,” 104–6, 236
Hope’s movie career and, 105, 125, 137
Willard, John, 139
William Morris Agency, 58, 61, 188
Williams, Andy, 238, 398, 452
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 336–38
Williams, Fred, 239, 263
Willkie, Wendell, 165–66, 185
“Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?,” 316
Wilson, Earl, 384
Wilson, Pete, 473
Winchell, Walter, 83, 130
Hope’s Broadway career and, 103, 108, 421
Hope’s movie career and, 101, 121, 162–63, 421, 436
Hope’s radio career and, 103–4
Winfrey, Oprah, 16
Wings, 294
Winter Garden Theater, 107–8
Winters, Jonathan, 335, 424
Winters, Shelley, 450
With the Old Breed (Sledge), 210–11
Wizard of Oz, The, 133, 144, 148
Women, The, 148
Wood, Natalie, 355
Woodbury soap, 111, 121
Woods, Rose Mary, 428
Woodstock, 398
World’s Fairs, 140, 143, 339
World War I, 46, 77, 86
Hope brothers in, 43–44
World War II, 2–6, 9, 135, 141–42, 166–67, 181–92, 228, 234, 241, 244–45, 258–59, 275, 295, 305, 343
comparisons between Vietnam and, 375, 381–82
D-Day invasion in, 208–9, 220
end of, 219–20, 222–23, 226, 232, 272
entertaining troops in, 2–3, 6, 15–16, 18, 182–83, 185, 188–92, 194–221, 227, 236, 250, 273, 330, 334, 341, 485–86
fiftieth anniversary of VE Day in, 478
Hope’s newspaper columns and, 217–18, 220
Hope’s souvenirs from, 214, 221
movies and, 5, 147, 164, 166, 171, 181–82, 185–88, 194–95, 215, 399
Pearl Harbor attack and, 177, 181–83, 186, 188
radio and, 173–75, 177, 181–85, 188–89, 194–95, 199, 204–9, 213, 219, 222–23, 227, 238–39, 274
raising money and, 167, 182–84, 192, 206, 208, 213–15, 217, 219, 223, 358
Wright, Cobina, 144, 158
Wuthering Heights, 148
Wyler, William, 182
Wynn, Bob, 447, 449
Wynn, Ed, 86, 279, 290
Wynn, Keenan, 420
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 300
Yates, Charlie, 299
“Yesterdays,” 90
Ying Ruocheng, 448
You Bet Your Life, 237
“You Don’t Have to Know the Language,” 241
“You Do Something to Me,” 101
Young, Loretta, 127
Young, Roland, 258
Young, Whitney, 405
Young Widow, 149
Your Hollywood Parade, 123–24, 130
Your Show of Shows, 267, 289
“You Do Something to Me,” 101
You’ll Never Get Rich, 308
“You’ve Got Something,” 110
“You’ve Got That Thing,” 101
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 80, 82–83, 93, 107
Ziegfeld Follies, 60
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, 107–8, 447
Zoppi, Tony, 340
Zukor, Adolph, 112, 120
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Hope : entertainer of the century / Richard Zoglin. —First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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1. Hope, Bob, 1903–2003. 2. Comedians—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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