Leslie Townes Hope , KBE, KC * SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003) is credited professionally as Bob Hope , is an American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian , actors, singers, dancers, athletes and writers. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature-length films with Hope stars, including a series of seven "Road" musical comedies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-bills partners. In addition to organizing the nineteen-time Academy Awards event, more than any other host, he appeared on many production platforms and television roles, and authored 14 books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" is widely regarded as its distinctive tone.
Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, arrived in the United States with his family at the age of four, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, county. After a brief career as a boxer in the late 1910s, he began his career in show business in the early 1920s, originally as a comedian and dancer at the vaudeville circuit, before acting on Broadway. Expectations began to appear on radio and films beginning in 1934. He was praised for his comedy time, specializing in one line and the quick delivery of self-deprecating jokes. He is often credited for helping create modern stand-up comedy versions of America. Celebrated for his long career performing United Service Organizations (USO) shows to entertain American military personnel active duties - he made 57 tours for the USO between 1941 and 1991 - Hope was declared a veteran honor of the US Armed Forces in 1997 by the actions of the United States Congress. He also appeared in various specials for NBC television, starting in 1950, and was one of the first users of the guide card. Hope participates in the sport of golf and boxing and has a small stake in his home baseball team, Indian Cleveland. He died at the age of 100 years in 2003, at his home in Lake Toluca, Los Angeles.
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Initial years
Hope, the fifth of seven sons, was born in Eltham, County London (now part of Royal Borough of Greenwich), in a terraced house on Craigton Road in Well Hall where there is now a blue plaque in his memory. His father, William Henry Hope, was a mason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and his mother Welsh, Avis (nÃÆ' Â © e Townes), was a light opera singer from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, who later worked as a cleanser. William and Avis married in April 1891 and stayed at 12 Greenwood Street in Barry before moving to Whitehall, Bristol, and then to St George, Bristol. In 1908, the family emigrated to the United States, sailing aboard the SS Philadelphia . They passed Ellis Island, N.Y., on March 30, 1908, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio.
From the age of 12, Hope earns pocket money by singing - a public show to ask for donations (often on the tram to Luna Park), singing, dancing, and doing comedy. He entered many contests of dancing and amateur talent as Lester Hope, and won a prize in 1915 for the impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. For a while, he attended Boys Industrial School in Lancaster, Ohio, and as an adult donated a large sum of money to the agency. Hope had a brief career as a boxer in 1919, fighting under the name Packy East. He has three wins and one loss, and he participates in several charity games in the future.
Hope works as a butcher assistant and a midfielder in his teens and early 20s. He also has a brief assignment at Chandler Motor Car Company. In 1921, while helping his brother Jim clean the tree for the power company, he sat on a tree that fell to the ground, smashing his face; the accident requires Hope to undergo a reconstructive surgery, which contributes to her strange and strange appearance.
Deciding on a show business career, Hope and her boyfriend at that time signed up for dancing lessons. Encouraged after their three-day engagement at the club, Hope forms a partnership with Lloyd Durbin, a friend of the dancing school. Comedian Silent Fatty Arbuckle saw them perform in 1925 and found them working with a tour group called Hurley's Jolly Follies. Within a year, Hope has formed an act called Dancemedians with George Byrne and Hilton Sisters, the conjoined twins who perform a routine tap dance at the vaudeville circuit. Hope and Byrne also act as conjoined twins, and dance and sing while wearing black mask until friends suggest that she is more funny like herself.
In 1929, Hope unofficially changed his first name to "Bob." In one version of the story, he named himself after Bob Burman's car racer. On the other hand, he said he chose a name because he wanted a name with "friendly" Hiya, my dear! ' sounds "to it. In a 1942 legal document, his official name was given as Lester Townes Hope; it is unknown whether this reflects the official name change from Leslie. After five years at the vaudeville circuit, Hope was "shocked and humbled" when he failed the 1930 screen test for the French film production company PathÃÆ'Â © in Culver City, California.
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Careers
In the early days, Hope's career included performances onstage in vaudeville performances and Broadway productions. He began performing on radio in 1934, and turned to television when the medium became popular in the 1950s. He started regular TV shows in 1954, and hosted the nineteen-time Academy Awards from 1939 to 1977. The overlap with this was his film career, from 1934 to 1972, and his USO tour, which he conducted from 1941 to 1991.
Movies
Hope signed a contract with Educational Pictures of New York for six short films. The first is comedy, Going Spanish (1934). He was unhappy with it, and told newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, "When they catch Dillinger's bank robbery, they'll make him sit twice." Although Educational Pictures dropped his contract, he soon signed with Warner Brothers, filming in the daytime and performing at Broadway shows in the evenings.
Hope moved to Hollywood when Paramount Pictures signed it for the 1938 movie The Big Broadcast of 1938, also starring W. C. Fields. The song "Thanks for the Memory", which later became his trademark, was introduced in the film as a duet with Shirley Ross, accompanied by Shep Fields and his orchestra. His sentimental and fluid nature of music allowed the writers of Hope - he relied heavily on joke writers throughout his career - to then create variations of songs to suit certain circumstances, such as saying goodbye to troops while on tour or mentioning the names of the cities in which he performed.
As a movie star, Hope is best known for comedies such as My Favorite Brunette and the highly successful "Road" movie in which she starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The series consists of seven films made between 1940 and 1962 - Road to Singapore <19i), Road to Zanzibar (1941), The Road to Morocco (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Road to Bali (1952), and > The Road to Hong Kong (1962). Hope has seen Lamour perform as a nightclub singer in New York, and invited him to work at the United Service Organization (USO) tour of military facilities. Lamour sometimes comes for the shoot that is prepared with his dialogue, only to be confused by completely rewritten scripts or lib-lib dialog between Hope and Crosby. Hope and Lamour are lifelong friends, and she remains the actress most closely related to her film career even though she makes films with dozens of prominent women, including figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Hedy Lamarr, Lucille Ball, Rosemary Clooney, Jane Russell, and Elke Sommer.
From their first meeting in 1932, Hope and Crosby worked not only for the "Street" image, but for countless stage performances, radio and television and numerous short film appearances for decades until Crosby's death in 1977. Although both are investing together. in oil leases and other business ventures, often working together, and living close to each other, they seldom see each other socially.
After the release of Road to Singapore (1940), Hope's screen career began, and he had a long and successful run. After 11 years absent from the "Road" genre, he and Crosby were re-named for The Road to Hong Kong (1962), starring the 28-year-old Joan Collins to replace Lamour, to which Crosby's mind was too old for that part. They had planned another movie together in 1977, The Road to the Fountain of Youth, but the filming was postponed when Crosby was injured in the fall, and production was canceled when he died suddenly of heart failure in October.
Hope starred in 54 theatrical features between 1938 and 1972, as well as brilliant acting and short films. Most of his later films failed to match the stratosphere's success of his 1940s effort. He is disappointed with his performance at Cancel My Reservation (1972), his latest film, and his film is less accepted by critics and movie audiences. Although his career as an effective movie star ended in 1972, he made several cameo film appearances into the 1980s.
Hope was host of an Academy Awards ceremony 19 times between 1939 and 1977. His desire to become an Oscar became part of his acting. While introducing the show in 1968, he quipped, "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it is known in my home, Passover." Although he was never nominated for an Oscar, the Academy of Art and Science Motion Picture honored him with four honors, and in 1960 was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which is given annually as part of an Oscar ceremony.
Broadcasting
Hope's career in the broadcast began on radio in 1934. His first regular series for NBC Radio was the Woodbury Soap in 1937, with a 26-week contract. A year later, the Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope began, and Hope signed a ten-year contract with the event sponsor, Lever Brothers. He hired eight authors and paid them out of his salary of $ 2,500 a week. The original staff included Mel Shavelson, Norman Panama, Jack Rose, Sherwood Schwartz, and brother Schwartz, Al. The writing staff eventually grew to fifteen. This event became the top radio program in the country. Regular in series include Jerry Colonna and Barbara Jo Allen as the old virgin Vera Vague. Hope continued his lucrative career on the radio until the 1950s, when the popularity of the radio began to overshadowed by the newly established television media.
NBC's special comedy
Hopes made many special offers for the NBC television network in the following decades, beginning in April 1950. He was one of the first to use a hint card. Performances are often sponsored by General Motors (1955-61), Chrysler (1963-73), and Texaco (1975-85). Christmas Specials Hope is a popular favorite and often features the show "Silver Bells" - from the 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid - performed as a duet with female guest stars often much younger like Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Eden, and Brooke Shields, or with his wife Dolores, a former singer with whom he duets on two specials. In 1970 and 1971, Christmas specials for NBC - filmed in Vietnam in front of military audiences at the height of the war - are in the top 46 US main air time list. Both are seen by more than 60 percent of US households who watch television.
Bob Hope Adventure
Beginning in early 1950, Hope has the right to publish a celebrity comic book entitled Bob Hope Adventure to the National Periodical Publications, aka DC Comics. The comic, which originally featured stills of Hope on its cover, was made up entirely of fictitious stories, which eventually included fictional relatives, a high school taught by a movie monster, and a superhero called Super-Hip. It was published intermittently, and continued publication through the edition # 109 in 1969. Illustrators include Bob Oksner and (for the last four issues) Neal Adams.
USO engagement
While in the RMS Queen Mary when World War II began in September 1939, Hope volunteered to perform for the passengers, where she sang "Thanks for the Memory" with rewritten lyrics. He performed his first USO show on May 6, 1941, in March Field in California, and continued to travel and entertain troops for the rest of World War II, then during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the third phase of Lebanon Civil War, the last years of the Iran War -Irak, and Persian Gulf War 1990-91. His career at USO lasted half a century in which he became headline as much as 57 times.
He greatly respects the men and women who served in the military, and this is reflected in his willingness to go anywhere to entertain them. However, during the highly controversial Vietnam War, Hope had trouble convincing several players to join him on the tour. The anti-war sentiment was very high, and his pro-army stance made him a target of criticism from some quarters. Several performances were drowned out by boos, others were listened quietly.
The tour was funded by the US Department of Defense, the Hope television sponsor, and by NBC, a network broadcasting television specials made after each tour from on-site footage footage. However, the recordings and performances are owned by Hope's own production company, which makes them a very lucrative venture for him, as outlined by author Richard Zoglin in the 2014 biography "Hope: Entertainer of the Century."
Expectations sometimes recruit family members for USO trips. His wife, Dolores, sang from an armored vehicle during a Desert Storm tour, and Miranda's grandson appeared beside him on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean. Of Hope's USO shows in World War II, novelist John Steinbeck, then working as a war correspondent, wrote in 1943:
"When the time for recognition of service to the wartime nation came to be considered, Bob Hope should be on a high list.This guy pushed himself and encouraged.It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work very hard, and can be very effective.He works month after month at a speed that will kill most people. "
For his services to his country via USO, he was awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968. A 1997 Congressional act signed by President Bill Clinton named Hope an "Honorary Veteran." She commented, "I have been given many awards in my life, but to be numbered among men and women I admire is the greatest honor I have ever received." In a tribute to Hope, comedian/TV host Stephen Colbert brought the golf club onstage for a week of USO performances he recorded for his TV show, The Colbert Report, during the 2009 season.
Theater
The first appearance on Broadway, in 1927 The Sidewalks of New York and 1928's Ups-a-Daisy, was a small part of the run. He returned to Broadway in 1933 to star as Huckleberry Haines in the musical Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields Roberta . Moving in the musical Say When , 1936 Ziegfeld Follies with Fanny Brice, and Red, Hot and Blue with Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante following her. Hope changed his role as Huck Haines in the 1958 production of Roberta at The Muny Theater in Forest Park in St. Louis. Louis, Missouri.
In addition, Hope rescued Eltham Little Theater in the UK from the closing by providing funds to purchase the property. He continues his interest and support, and regularly visits the facility when in London. In 1982, the theater was renamed in his honor.
Appearance later
In 1992, Hope made a guest appearance as herself on Fox's animated series The Simpsons, in an episode titled "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (season 4, episode 4). His 90th birthday celebration in May 1993, Bob Hope: The First 90 Years, won an Emmy Award for Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Special Comedy. Toward the end of his career, worsening vision problems prevented him from reading his card. In October 1996, he announced that he ended his 60-year contract with NBC, joking that he "decided to become a free agent." His last special television, Laughing with the President, was broadcast in November 1996, with host Tony Danza helping him present a personal retrospective from the president of the United States known as Hope, a frequent visitor of the White House. However, the special received bad reviews. After a brief appearance at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1997, Hope made her last TV appearance in a 1997 commercial about the introduction of Big Kmart, and directed by Penny Marshall.
Critical reception
Expectations are widely praised for the comedy time and its specialization in the use of one sentence pronunciation and quick joke delivery. His self-deprecating style, who first built himself, then tore him down, was unique. Working tirelessly, he performs hundreds of times per year. Early films such as The Cat and the Canary (1939) and The Paleface (1948) were financially successful and praised by critics, and in the mid-1940s, with His radio program earned good ratings as well, he is one of the most popular entertainers in the United States. When Paramount threatened to stop the production of the "Road" image in 1945, they received 75,000 protest letters.
Hope has no confidence in his skills as a dramatic actor, and his appearance of that kind is not well received. He had been a leader on the radio until the late 1940s, but as his ratings began to decline in the 1950s, he switched to television and became the early pioneer of the medium. And, in keeping with his busy schedule, he published several books dictated to ghost writers about his wartime experiences.
Although Hope tries to keep her material up to date, she never adjusts her comic or routine persona to a great extent. When Hollywood began to transition into the "New Hollywood" era of the 1960s, she reacted negatively, as when she hosted the 40th Academy Awards in 1968 and voiced her hatred by mocking the postponement of the event for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.. and humbly greeted the presence of young actors on stage - like Dustin Hoffman, who was 30 at the time - as a child. In the 1970s, its popularity began to diminish with military personnel and with the public-film in general. However, he continued to tour the USO into the 1980s, and continued to appear on television in the 1990s. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, a close friend and often host to her at the White House, called Hope "our most respected American and favorite clown."
Hope is known as a diligent golfer, playing in as many as 150 charity tournaments a year. Introduced to the game in the 1930s while performing in Winnipeg, Canada, he eventually played for four handicaps. Her love of the game - and the humor she could find in it - made her a member of four wanted members. He once said that President Dwight D. Eisenhower stopped playing golf to paint - "Fewer strokes, you know." He was also quoted as saying, "It's amazing how you can start with three strangers in the morning, play 18 holes, and by the end of the day you have three solid enemies."
A golf club becomes an integral supporter of Hope during the segment of television stands and USO shows. In 1978, he fought Tiger Woods who was two years old in a television appearance with actor Jimmy Stewart on The Mike Douglas Show.
The Bob Hope Classic, founded in 1960, made history in 1995 when Hope teed up for the opening round in four men including President Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, the only time three US presidents play in the same golf of four. The event, now known as CareerBuilder Challenge, is one of several PGA Tour tournaments that run for five rounds, until the 2012 tournament when it is cut back to the conventional four.
Hope has a great interest in sports outside of golf and his short bait as a professional boxer in his youth. In 1946, he bought a small stake in the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team and held it for much of the rest of his life. He appeared on June 3, 1963, the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine wearing an Indian uniform, and sang a special version of "Thanks for the Memory" after the last Indian game at Cleveland Stadium on October 3, 1993. He also bought the stock by Bing Crosby of the Los Angeles Rams football team in 1947, but sold it in 1962. He often uses his television specials to promote the annual AP College Football Soccer Team. The players will come to the stage one by one and introduce themselves, then Hope, who often wears a soccer uniform, will give a line about his players or school.
Personal life
Wedding
The first short-lived marriage was vaudeville's partner, Grace Louise Troxell (1912-1992), a secretary from Chicago, Illinois, who was the daughter of Edward and Mary (McGinnes) Troxell. They married on January 25, 1933, in Erie, Pennsylvania, with Alderman Eugene Alberstadt leading. They divorced in November 1934.
The couple had shared major status with Joe Howard at the Palace Theater in April 1931, performed "Keep Smiling" and "Antics of 1931." The couple worked together at RKO Albee, doing "Antics of 1933" along with Ann Gillens and Johnny Peters in June of that year. The following month, singer Dolores Reade joins the vaudeville Hope group and performs with her at Loew's Metropolitan Theater. He is described as "Zeigfeld's former beauty and one of the community's favorite nightclub entertainers, having appeared on many social events in New York, Palm Beach and Southampton."
Their long marriage is full of ambiguity. As Richard Zoglin wrote in his 2014 biography of Hopeer: Entertainer of the Century, Bob and Dolores always claimed that they married in February 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania, but at that time he was secretly married to vaudeville partner Louise Troxell, after three years together, I found divorce papers for Bob and Louise dated November 1934, so whether Bob Hope was a bigamist or he lied about marrying Dolores in February of that year. He actually married Louise in January 1933 in Erie when they were traveling on the vaudeville circuit When she claimed she had married Dolores in Erie, she was miles away in New York, on Broadway.It is more interesting, there is no record anywhere from her marriage to Dolores, if it happens, and there are no wedding photos, but he never forgets Louise and secretly sends her money in her last years. " note that "The City of New York, the Marriage License Index, 1907-1995" at Ancestry.com, includes a 1993 marriage license for Dolores Mary Defina and Lester Townes Hope in Manhattan.
Dolores (DeFina) Reade has become one of the stars of hope on Broadway at Roberta. The couple adopted four children through Evanston, IL, an adoption agency named The Cradle: Linda (in 1939), Tony (1940), Kelly (1946), and Eleanora, known as Nora (1946). Of them, they have several grandchildren, including Andrew, Miranda, and Zachary Hope. Tony (as Anthony J. Hope) served as president appointed in the George H. W. Bush and Clinton governments and in various positions under President Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
The couple lived at 10346 Moorpark Street in Toluca Lake, California from 1937 until his death. In 1935, they lived in Manhattan.
Unmarried affairs
Hope has a reputation as a basket eye and continues to see other women throughout his marriage. As Zoglin writes in Hope: Entertainer of the Century, "Bob Hope has a relationship with choir girls, beauty queens, singers and showbiz women until the age of 70. She has a different girl on his arm every night.He's still doing business to the 80s... "
As one example among many, in 1949 when Hope was in Dallas on a publicity tour for her radio show, she met Barbara Payton, a contract player at Universal Studios, who was on her own public relations journey. Soon afterward, Hope set up Payton in an apartment in Hollywood. The arrangement was worsening because Hope was unable to meet the definition of generosity and his need for Payton's attention. Hope pays him to end the affair calmly. Payton later revealed his affair in an article printed in July 1956 in Confidential magazine. "The hope is... sometimes a cruel individual with the ability to respond with cruel retaliation when it is quite provoked." Her advisers advise her to avoid further publication by ignoring the Secret exposÃÆ'Â ©. "Barbara's... revelation caused a small ripple... and then quickly drowned without causing any significant damage to Bob Hope's legendary career."
According to Hope 1993 biography of Arthur Marx, Secret Life of Bob Hope, Hope's long-term relationship with actress Marilyn Maxwell is so open that the Hollywood community routinely calls it "Mrs. Bob Hope".
Vision philanthropy
Hope, who suffers from vision problems for much of her adult life, serves as active honorary chairman on the board of Fight for Sight, a nonprofit organization in the United States that funded medical research in vision and ophthalmology. He hosted Lights On television in 1960 and donated $ 100,000 to form Bob Hope Fight for Sight Fund. Hope recruits many top celebrities for the annual "Lights On" fundraiser. For example, he hosted boxing champion Joe Frazier, actress Yvonne De Carlo, and singer-actor Sergio Franchi as headliners for the April 25, 1971 show at Philharmonic Hall in Milwaukee.
His last years
Hope continues an active entertainment career after the 75th birthday, concentrating on his television specials and USO tours.
Though he has given up starring in the film after Cancel My Reservation, he made some brilliant acts in various movies and starred with Don Ameche in the 1986 TV A iMpipiece of Murder. A television show made for his 80th birthday in 1983 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., featured President Ronald Reagan, actress Lucille Ball, comedian-actor-writer George Burns, and many others. In 1985, he was presented with the Achievement of Life Award at the Kennedy Center Honors, and in 1998 he was appointed Commander of the Honorary Knight of the Greatest Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. After receiving the appointment, Hope quips, "I can not speak, 70 years of advertising and I can not say anything."
At the age of 95, Hope appeared on the 50th anniversary of the Primetime Emmy Awards with Milton Berle and Sid Caesar. Two years later, he was present at the opening of the Bob Hope of American Entertainment Gallery in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has presented two great exhibitions on the life of Hope - "Hope for America: Doers, Politics and Pop Culture" and "Bob Hope and American Variety."
Hope celebrates its 100th birthday on May 29, 2003. He is one of the leading small centenarian groups in the entertainment field. To mark this event, the Hollywood and Vine intersections in Los Angeles are named "Bob Hope Square" and the hundred years are "Bob Hope Day" in 35 states. Even at the age of 100, Hope retains his self-deprecating sense of humor, saying, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type." He entered the Roman Catholic Church at the end of his life.
Disease and death
In 1998, five years before his death, news of death prepared by the Associated Press was unintentionally released, resulting in Hope's death being announced on the floor of the US House of Representatives. However, Hope remains in relatively good health until the elderly, although it has become rather weak in recent years. In June 2000, he spent almost a week at a California hospital being treated for gastrointestinal bleeding. In August 2001, he spent nearly two weeks in a hospital recovering from pneumonia.
On the morning of July 27, 2003, Hope died of pneumonia at age 100 at her home in Toluca Lake, California. His grandson Zach Hope told TV interviewer Soledad O'Brien that, when questioned on his deathbed where he wanted to be buried, Hope told his wife, Dolores, "Surprise me." He was buried at the Bob Hope Memorial Garden at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, joining in 2011 by Dolores when he died - four months after his 102nd birthday. After his death, newspaper cartoonists around the world paid tribute to his work for USO , and some featuring images of Bing Crosby, who died in 1977, welcomed Hope to Heaven.
As a final honor and respect for his life of service to the USO and to men and women of the United States Military, on July 30, 2003, the United States Congress passed the Bob Hope Arlington Honors Act of 2003, which "Directs the Army Secretary to allow the burial of Leslie Townes (Bob) of Hope of California, an honorary veteran of the armed forces, at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, at the request of her family. "
Estate
The 23,366 square foot (2,171 m 2 ) Modernist House, built like a volcano, was designed in 1973 by John Lautner. The hotel is situated above Palm Springs, with views of the Coachella Valley and the beautiful San Jacinto Mountains. It was marketed for the first time in February 2013 at a asking price of $ 50 million. Hope also has a house that was built specifically for him in 1939 on a land area of ​​87,000 square feet (8,083 m 2 ) on Lake Toluca. The house was installed in the market by the end of 2012. Her home at 2466 Southridge Drive in Palm Springs, California, was sold in November 2016 for $ 13 million to investor Ron Burkle, well below the 2013 asking price of $ 50 million.
Awards and honors
Hope was awarded more than 2,000 awards and awards, including 54 honorary university doctorates. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Gold Medal of Congress for his country service. President Lyndon Johnson conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his service to the armed forces through the USO. In 1982, he received the Roger Horchow Award for the Greatest Public Service by Private Citizens, an honor given annually by the Jefferson Awards. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and received the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in 1997. On June 10, 1980, he became the only 64-and civilian-recipient of the United States Air Force Sword Order which recognizes individuals who have contributed significantly to enlisted corps.
Some buildings and facilities are given a new name for Hope, including the historic Fox Theater in downtown Stockton, CA, and Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, CA. There's a Bob Hope Gallery in the Library of Congress. To commemorate his mother, Avis Towns Hope, Bob and Dolores Hope gave the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, a chapel called Our Lady of Hope Chapel. USNSÃ, Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) from the US Military Sealift Command was named for players in 1997. This is one of the few US naval vessels named after the living. The Air Force calls the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft as the Spirit of Bob Hope .
In 1978, Hope was invited to mark "i" in the formation of Ohio Script Ohio State University Marching Band, an honor that was only given to non-band members on 14 occasions from 1936 to 2016. In the NY Times, 5-8 - 79, p. C 7, it states Woody Allen writes and recounts a documentary film in his honor, MY FAVORITE COMEDIAN, shown at the Lincoln Center. In the Hope-born town of Cleveland, Cleveland, the renewed Lorain-Carnegie Bridge was renamed Hope Memorial Bridge in 1983, although different claims have been made about whether the bridge respects Hope itself, his entire family, or his bachelor's father who helped build the bridge. Also, East 14th Street near Playhouse Square in the Cleveland theater district was renamed to Memory Lane-Bob Hope Way in 2003 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the entertainers.
In 1992, Hope was awarded the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation. This award is made to honor the legacy of football coaches, and is given annually to individuals who exemplify their passion. On May 28, 2003, President George W. Bush founded the Bob Hope American Patriot Award.
Academy Awards
Although he was never nominated for a competitive Oscar, Hope was given five honorary awards by the Motion Arts and Sciences Academy:
- 13th Academy Awards (1940): Special Award in recognition of his selfless service to the film industry
- 17th Academy Awards (1944): Special Awards for many of its services for the Academy
- 25th Academy Award (1952): Honorary Award for his contribution to the laughter of the world, his service for the film industry, and his devotion to the American premise
- 32nd Academy Awards (1959): Jean Hersholt's Humanitarian Award
- 38th Academy Awards (1965): Honor Award for unique and exclusive service for industry and Academy Discussion
Singles
1948 Buttons and Bows (Oscar Best Song 1949)
1951 Silver Bells (Christmas song) 1936 De-Lovely (eponymous from 2004 film biography from Cole Porter)
Bibliography
See also
- Biographical portal
- Bob Hope's television appearance
References
Bibliography
Further reading
- Mills, Robert L. (2009). The Laugh Makers: A Behind the Scenes Tribute to Bob Hope Incredible Gag Writers . Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN: 978-1-59393-323-4.
- Wilde, Larry (2000). The Great Comedians Talk About Comedy . Executive Book. ISBN 978-0-937539-51-4. Young, Jordan R. (1999). The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing on Radio and Golden Age TV . Beverly Hills, CA: The Past Publishing. ISBN 978-0-940410-37-4.
- Zoglin, Richard (2014). Hope: Entertainer of the Century . New York: Simon & amp; Schuster. ISBN: 978-1-4391-4858-7.
External links
- Bob Hope at EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Bob Hope at AllMovie
- Bob Hope on the Internet Broadway Database
- Bob Hope on IMDb
- Bob Hope in the TCM Film Database
- Bob Hope at National Radio Hall of Fame
- MSNBC awards series:
- "Hope and Hope Hope"
- "100 Years of Hope: Early Years"
- "100 Years of Hope: Slapstick and Great Divide"
- Gold Medal Receiver
- Literature at Bob Hope
- The law makes Bob Hope an honorary veteran
- Bob Hope at Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner
- Speaker of Luncheon National Press Club, Bob Hope, July 8, 1980
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