Bob Hope Filmography

Hope for the Holidays: The Best of Bob Hope

Synopsis: For forty-years families across America would gather around the television at Christmas to enjoy the gut-busting belly laughs of American comedy legend Bob Hope and an all-star cast of guests - now you can re-live all of the greatest moments and introduce a new generation of viewers to Hope's Read More

100 Years of Hope & Humor

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Pauley

Synopsis: Taped approximately six weeks before the 100th birthday of comedy legend Bob Hope, this elaborate (and highly-rated) TV "love letter" to "Old Ski Nose" is hosted by former Today Show anchor Jane Pauley. The special covers the familiar biographical ground, tracing British-born Leslie Townes Hope Read More

Army-Navy Screen Magazine

Synopsis: The original Army Navy "screen magazine" was a news and information film that was shown before the main feature in military movie theaters during World War II. These presentations consisted of human-interest stories from the home front, news about combat events, updates on defense-related Read More

Bob Hope: His Road to Comedy

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Actors: Dean Martin

Judy Garland's Hollywood

Synopsis: Though many fans will always fondly recall Judy Garland's wonderful portrayal of young Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Garland herself was apparently most proud of the role she played in A Star Is Born. In this film, which opened in 1954, Garland portrayed an actress who sees her career blossom as Read More

Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star

Synopsis: An affectionate look at the illustrious career of Bob Hope, this film features numerous clips from Hope's start in vaudeville through to his radio, movie, and television careers. This hour-long show includes interviews with Larry Gelbart, Hy Averback, and, of course, Hope himself. ~ Jonathan Read More

Roseanne: Tolerate Thy Neighbor

Synopsis: Next-door neighbor Kathy Bowman (Meagan Fay) blames Roseanne when she arrives home from a vacation and finds her house robbed. While at work at Rodbell's Diner, Roseanne gets involved in the fight between her boss, Leon (Martin Mull), and his boyfriend, Steven (Michael Des Barres). Bob Hope guest Read More

Lucy, Queen of Comedy

Synopsis: Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Roast Tommy: The Tommy Lasorda Roast

Synopsis: Tommy Lasorda was roasted by Hope, Rickles, Rich Little, Sparky Anderson and President Bush (on tape) as captured on this video. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Funny Fifties

Entertaining the Troops: American Entertainers in World War II

Synopsis: Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising money for the war and entertaining the troops. Shows entertainer Bob Hope and his performing troupe today. Other entertainers include Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, The Andrews Sisters Read More

Reader's Digest: America The Way We Were - Home Front, 1940-1945 [Video Series]

Synopsis: Looking at the time period from 1940 to 1945, this three-part historical series takes the viewer on a tour of America during WWII. Important celebrities and political figures are seen in the context of life during this stressful period of history. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Golf Shots Video Magazine, Vol. 1

Saturday at the Movies

Synopsis: This is a tribute to the movie-making industry, with many film clips of, and much commentary about, several decades of fabulous films. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Forty Years of Television Broadcast Journalism: A Salute to KTLA

A Masterpiece of Murder

Actors: Don Ameche, Bob Hope

Synopsis: Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye, hoping to get one last good case before calling it quits. Don Ameche, a retired art thief reduced to working as a chauffeur, teams with his old friend Hope to solve the Read More

Steve Allen's Golden Age of Comedy

Synopsis: This video contains some of the most memorable moments from Steve Allen's long-running talk show. Featured guests include Mel Brooks, Jimmy Durante and Johnny Carson. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spies Like Us

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent Read More

The Hollywood Clowns

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Vol. 4 - Hollywood Goes to War

Synopsis: This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks back home during WW II. Each of the five shorts features an all-star cast doing things to cheer people up during a difficult time. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

Milton Berle's Mad World of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: Milton Berle hosts this 1974 program, a look back at comedy appearances on his variety show plus material from contemporary comics. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Cancel My Reservation

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Bob Hope

Synopsis: The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The ever-youthful Hope plays Dan Bartlett, a late-night TV talk show host. Frazzled, he takes a much-needed vacation in Arizona. There, he stumbles upon a murder and a conspiracy by Read More

Raquel!

How to Commit a Marriage

Actors: Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Frank Benson (Bob Hope) and his wife, Elaine (Jane Wyman), decide to end their marriage after 20 years. Their daughter, Nancy (Joanna Cameron), announces she wishes to marry her college sweetheart, David Poe (Tim Matheson). David's father, Oliver (Jackie Gleason), is against the union and tries to Read More

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

Actors: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Gina Lollobrigida, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: 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 beer turns up missing, he calls an all-out search for the suds. In the process, O'Farrell captures a Japanese submarine single-handedly and tries to pilot the boat to safety. Phyllis Diller Read More

Eight on the Lam

Actors: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John

Synopsis: In this comedy, a widower, his seven children, and their maid find themselves on the lam, after he is falsely accused of embezzling at the bank where he works. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Actors: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: 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 it isn't nearly as bad as some of his other sixties efforts (take a look a Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell sometime). The plot is set in motion by movie sex bomb Elke Sommer Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

I'll Take Sweden

Actors: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy. He doesn't care much for JoJo's boyfriend Kenny (Frankie Avalon) because the smooth operator has a motorcycle and some money. Bob manages to get his company to transfer him Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Plumber

Actors: Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Willard Waterman, Tom G. Linder, Louis Nicoletti

Synopsis: Jack Benny guests on this episode as plumber Harry Tuttle, who charges exorbitant fees because he can't get much work--all because he happens to resemble Jack Benny! Lucy is determined to afford Mr. Tuttle, so she arranges a TV appearance for her stagestruck butcher Mr. Krause (Tom G. Linder) Read More

Jack Benny Visits Walt Disney

Hollywood and the Stars: Funny Men

Actors: Joseph Cotten

A Global Affair

Actors: Bob Hope, Liselotte Pulver, Robert Sterling, Michele Mercier, Jacques Bergerac

Synopsis: In this comedy, the head of a United Nations department suddenly becomes a father when he stumbles across an abandoned baby in one of the halls. He tries to find a home for the darling and suddenly finds himself surrounded by assorted exotic beauties all trying to win the baby for their country. Read More

Call Me Bwana

Actors: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries, Percy Herbert

Synopsis: It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his exploration of the African subcontinent on old diaries of his uncle. When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa, Merriwether, based on his alleged Read More

The Road to Hong Kong

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured Dorothy Lamour once made famous. In this road to Hong Kong and parts far beyond, Chester and Harry (Hope and Crosby) are a couple of failed vaudeville stars looking for a way to Read More

Critic's Choice

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his essay How Not to Write a Play, Kerr noted that the worst possible scenario would involve a drama critic forced to review a play written by his wife (we should mention that Read More

Candid Hollywood

The Sound of Laughter

Synopsis: Ed Wynn hosts this compilation of comedic material from the likes of Imogene Coca and Buster Keaton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Synopsis: The fascinating life of lasso-twirling funnyman Will Rogers is explored in this documentary narrated by comic legend Bob Hope and originally aired as part of NBC's Project Twenty series in 1961. Originally rising to fame as a lariat trickster for Texas Jack's Wild West Circus, Rogers' irreverent Read More

Bachelor in Paradise

Actors: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance expert" who is contracted to write an expose on the sexual habits of suburban California housewives. For research purposes, he moves into a subdivision called Paradise Read More

Bobby Darin & Friends

Synopsis: Darin and friends perform music and discuss Kennedy's inauguration. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Facts of Life

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye

Synopsis: Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic undertones. Hope is married to Ruth Hussey, while Ball is the wife of Don DeFore. All four are old friends, who for many years have taken each other for granted. A series of Read More

Road to Lebanon

Synopsis: The famous Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour "Road" movies are spoofed in this star-studded musical comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

America: A Look Back - Not So Long Ago

Synopsis: America: A Look Back - Not So Long Ago offers a look at some socially and historically important events that occurred in the United Sates in the brief period of time between the end of the second world war and the beginning of the Korean conflict. Narrated by the legendary Bob Hope, stories Read More

Alias Jesse James

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

The Five Pennies

Actors: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Tuesday Weld, Bob Crosby

Synopsis: The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and Read More

Paris Holiday

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, Preston Sturges

Synopsis: Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris Holiday. Since Hope coauthored the script, however, guess which actor has the largest part. Cast more or less as himself, Hope plays an American comedian who comes to Paris to Read More

Beau James

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s. This biopic chronicles his surprising rise to Read More

The Edsel Show

Actors: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong

Synopsis: A star-studded television special that introduced the Edsel to the American people. The Edsel was a new Ford model of the late '50s that later became an industry joke. Historically important as the first live entertainment TV broadcast to be recorded on video tape for later rebroadcast. ~ All Read More

That Certain Feeling

Actors: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey, David Lewis

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays Francis X. Dignan, the overly neurotic "ghost" for popular comic-strip artist Larry Larkin (George Sanders). When Larkin's syndicate complains that his work isn't as Read More

The Iron Petticoat

Actors: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is a long-lost classic or the unmitigated disaster many have claimed it to be. Essentially a rehash of Ninotchka, the film stars Bob Hope as Chuck Lockwood, an American Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy and Bob Hope

Actors: Bob Hope, Phil Leeds, Lou Krugman, Henry Kulky, Dick Elliott

27th Annual Academy Awards Presentations

Synopsis: This video presents archival footage of the Academy Awards ceremony held in 1955 for movies released in 1954. The program shows an evening hosted by Bob Hope, during which the Elia Kazan anti-union picture On the Waterfront took top honors with eight wins out of twelve nominations, including the Read More

The Seven Little Foys

Actors: Bob Hope, James Cagney, Milly Vitale, Angela Clarke, George Tobias

Synopsis: With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try something different. The Seven Little Foys was the first of Hope's two "straight" biopics (the second was 1956's Beau James). Though not completely abandoning his patented Read More

Casanova's Big Night

Actors: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Audrey Dalton, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble tailor of notorious ladies' man Casanova (an Read More

Dateline

Actors: John Daly, H.V. Kaltenborn, Sid Caesar, Ben Grauer, Martha Raye

Here Come the Girls

Actors: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays over-aged chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass, whose attempts to get ahead in the early 20th-century theatre world always come acropper. His luck suddenly changes when he's Read More

Off Limits

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: 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 up for his chronological unsuitability. Hope plays the manager of boxing champ Stanley Clements, who has just received his draft notice. Gangster Marvin Miller strong-arms Read More

Road to Bali

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe

Synopsis: This sixth entry in the Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" series was the first (and last) in Technicolor. This time, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope play George Cochran and Harold Gridley, American vaudevillians stranded in Australia. To avoid a dual shotgun wedding, George and Harold sign on as deep-sea divers Read More

Son of Paleface

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Bill Williams, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way, thanks largely to the spirited, creative direction of Frank Tashlin. Hope is cast as Junior Potter, a Harvard-educated dude who heads West to claim the inheritance left him by Read More

The Lemon Drop Kid

Actors: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second version, filmed in 1951, was completely retooled to accommodate the talents of Bob Hope. Known far Read More

My Favorite Spy

Actors: Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss, John Archer

Synopsis: Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is approached by federal agents who think that he's international spy Eric Augustine, to whom Peanuts bears a striking resemblance. When they realize that Peanuts and Eric are two Read More

Bob Hope

Synopsis: Bob Hope and Dorothy MacGuire appear in this television special for the boys (U.S. military troops overseas). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Fancy Pants

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Fancy Pants is a musicalized remake of the oft-filmed Harry Leon Wilson story Ruggles of Red Gap, tailored to the talents of "Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)". The basic plotline of the original, that of an English butler entering the service of a rowdy nouveau-riche family from the American West Read More

The Great Lover

Actors: Bob Hope,