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Jul 28, 2003 · Bob Hope, who kept Americans laughing through the best and the worst times of the 20th century, has died of pneumonia at age 100. "He was really remarkable and full of fun," daughter Linda Hope told reporters at the Television Academy on July 28, a day after the legendary comedian died, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles’ Toluca ...
Oct 31, 2014 · Comedy legend Bob Hope was a top star in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, in movies, on TV and through decades of USO tours around the world. He also had one of the longest show-business marriage…
Hope var känd för sitt sportintresse. Han hade varit proffsboxare, spelade biljard, tittade på amerikansk fotboll och var delägare i Cleveland Indians och Los Angeles Rams. Han är dock mest känd för sitt stora golfintresse. Han deltog i några tävlingar på PGA-touren och en tävling har fått hans namn, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Bob Hope was many things, but to the USO and to the service members of the United States, he was the “ one-man-morale machine .”. Bob Hope dedicated much of his nearly 80-year career to entertaining American troops, both at home and abroad. Undeterred by enemy fire or rough seas, Hope went straight to the front lines, delivering laughter ...
Nov 17, 2014 · Bob Hope entertaining the U.S.O. troops in New Georgia, part of the Solomon Islands, in 1944. Reuters/Bettman-UPI. By Janet Maslin. Nov. 17, 2014. Richard Zoglin’s revelatory new biography of ...
Nov 10, 2014 · When I was a teen-ager, I sort of hated Bob Hope. All of us did. Generationally crazy about the classics of American comedy—Groucho and Chaplin and Keaton and W. C. Fields—movie-loving kids ...
