From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, the one comic who has kept eleven presidents in stitches is legendary...
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2004
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For forty-years families across America would gather around the television at Christmas to enjoy the gut-busting belly...
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2004
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Taped approximately six weeks before the 100th birthday of comedy legend Bob Hope, this elaborate (and highly-rated) TV "love...
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2003
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1999
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The original Army Navy "screen magazine" was a news and information film that was shown before the main feature in military...
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1999
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1998
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1997
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An affectionate look at the illustrious career of Bob Hope, this film features numerous clips from Hope's start in vaudeville...
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1996
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1994
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1992
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Lucy Arnaz, daughter of comedy duo Desi and Lucie Arnaz, hosts this intimate retrospective of her legendary parents' lives....
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1992
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Next-door neighbor Kathy Bowman (Meagan Fay) blames Roseanne when she arrives home from a vacation and finds her house...
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1991
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Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Tommy Lasorda was roasted by Hope, Rickles, Rich Little, Sparky Anderson and President Bush (on tape) as captured on this...
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1990
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1989
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Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising...
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1989
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Looking at the time period from 1940 to 1945, this three-part historical series takes the viewer on a tour of America during...
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1989
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This is a tribute to the movie-making industry, with many film clips of, and much commentary about, several decades of...
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1988
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1988
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1987
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This video contains some of the most memorable moments from Steve Allen's long-running talk show. Featured guests include...
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1986
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Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye,...
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Dan Dolan
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1986
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1985
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1985
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have...
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1979
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Milton Berle hosts this 1974 program, a look back at comedy appearances on his variety show plus material from contemporary...
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1974
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The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The...
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Executive Producer, Dan Bartlett
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1972
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1970
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Frank Benson (Bob Hope) and his wife, Elaine (Jane Wyman), decide to end their marriage after 20 years. Their daughter, Nancy...
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Frank Benson
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1969
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O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the...
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O'Farrell
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1968
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In this comedy, a widower, his seven children, and their maid find themselves on the lam, after he is falsely accused of...
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Henry Dimsdale
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1967
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Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but...
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Tom Meade
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1966
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy....
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Bob Holcomb
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1965
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1964
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1964
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Jack Benny guests on this episode as plumber Harry Tuttle, who charges exorbitant fees because he can't get much work--all...
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Cameo Appearance
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1964
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In this comedy, the head of a United Nations department suddenly becomes a father when he stumbles across an abandoned baby...
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Frank Larrimore
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1963
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It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his...
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Matt Merryweather
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1963
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1963
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This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured...
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Chester Babcock
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1962
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1962
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Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his...
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Parker Ballantine
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1962
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1962
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Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance...
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Adam J. Niles
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1961
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Darin and friends perform music and discuss Kennedy's inauguration. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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The fascinating life of lasso-twirling funnyman Will Rogers is explored in this documentary narrated by comic legend Bob...
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1961
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1960
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America: A Look Back - Not So Long Ago offers a look at some socially and historically important events that occurred in the...
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1960
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Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic...
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Larry Gilbert
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1960
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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Executive Producer, Milford Farnsworth
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1959
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The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced...
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1959
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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Jimmy Walker
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1957
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Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris...
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Producer, Robert Leslie Hunter
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1957
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A star-studded television special that introduced the Edsel to the American people. The Edsel was a new Ford model of the...
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1957
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Himself
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1956
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For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays...
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Francis X. Dignan
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1956
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Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is...
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Maj. Chuck Lockwood
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1956
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With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try...
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Eddie Foy
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1955
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This video presents archival footage of the Academy Awards ceremony held in 1955 for movies released in 1954. The program...
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1955
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1954
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Pippo Popolino
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1954
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At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes...
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Songwriter, Wally Hogan
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1953
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Harold Gridley
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1953
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Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays...
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Stanley Snodgrass
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1953
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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Junior Potter
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1952
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Bob Hope and Dorothy MacGuire appear in this television special for the boys (U.S. military troops overseas). ~ Kristie...
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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Lemon Drop Kid, Sidney Melbourne
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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Eric Augustine,Peanuts White
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1951
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Arthur Tyler
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1950
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In The Great Lover, Bob Hope plays "Boy Rangers" scoutmaster Freddie Hunter, who accompanies his young charges on a European...
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Freddie Hunter
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1949
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Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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Painless Peter Potter
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1948
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Ronnie Jackson
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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Hot Lips Burton
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1947
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Michael Valentine
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1947
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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M. Beaucaire
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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Chester Hooton
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1946
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1945
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1944
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Sylvester Crosby/"Sylvester the Great"
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1944
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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Jerry Walker
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1943
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1943
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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Turkey Jackson
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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Robert Kittredge
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1942
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Larry Haines
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1942
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Jim Taylor
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1941
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Steve Bennett
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1941
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Hubert "Fearless" Frazier
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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Don Bolton
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1941
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Ace Lannigan
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1940
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Larry Lawrence
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1940
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Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion...
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Nicky Nelson
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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John Kidley
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1939
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The classic "old dark house" motif is given sterling treatment in this second filmed version of the hit play. Bob Hope's...
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Wallie Campbell
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1939
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Jim Brewster
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1938
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Steve Merrick
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1938
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Bud Brady
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1938
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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Buzz Fielding
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1937
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Bob Hope stars in this "educational musical comedy," which marks his first film appearance. Hope is traveling through South...
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1934
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During World War II, the federal government enlisted the help of Hollywood and its stars to drum up patriotic support for the...
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This music compilation of great songs from World War II includes performers like the Andrew Sisters, Big Crosby, Kate Smith,...
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