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Bob Hope always credited vaudeville as his school in show business. It's where he learned to love working to live audiences. Bob stayed in vaudeville for a long time — about nine or 10 years.
Bob Hope is one of the best entertainers of the 20th century that lived for exactly 100 years (from May 1903 to July 2003). His career began in the late 1910s just a decade after he was born. For the next 80 years, he quickly found success in various professions.
During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope (1903-2003) was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television ...
Jul 29, 2003 · July 29, 2003. Bob Hope, whose mastery of the comic monologue and the topical wisecrack carried him from vaudeville to Broadway musicals and then on to worldwide fame as a radio, film and ...
Jul 29, 2003 · Bob Hope, the elder statesman of comedy whose extraordinary career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies, books and makeshift concert platforms in war zones, has died. He was 100.
May 10, 2019 · Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England on May 29, 1903. The fifth of seven children, Bob Hope and his family members moved to the United States in 1908.
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, and entertainer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films—54 in which he starred. These included a series of seven Road to... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner. In addition to hosting the Academy ...
