The documentary Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter contains numerous clips from the film and television work of the beloved...
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2003
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Martha Spruce
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1987
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Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1987
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Jessica's trouble-prone nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with an accounting firm specializing in tax shelters....
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1987
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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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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief...
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1975
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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1969
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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1964
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John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the...
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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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Herself
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1962
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Princess Lalah
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1953
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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Phyllis
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum...
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Merl Kramer
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1949
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Mary O'Leary
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1949
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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Anna Marie St. Claire
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1949
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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Lulu Belle
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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Carol Maynard
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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Gloria Manners
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1948
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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Fay Ranklin
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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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Lucia Maria de Andrade
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1947
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Carlotta Montay
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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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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Sal Van Hoyden
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1946
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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Lolita Sierra
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1945
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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Angel O'Reilly
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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Herself
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1945
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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Nancy Angel
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1944
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Rainbow Island is a lavish Technicolor confection designed to show off the physical attributes of star Dorothy Lamour. This...
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Lona
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1944
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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Ann Castle
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1943
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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Millie Cook
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1943
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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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Princess Shalmar
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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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Christina Hill
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1942
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In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
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The Countess
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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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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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Tama
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1942
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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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Tony Fairbanks
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1941
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The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then...
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Aloma
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1941
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Donna Latour
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1941
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Dea
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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Albany Yates
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1940
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Dorothy Lamour once again wraps a variety of alluring costumes around her hourglass frame in the Paramount bread-and-butter...
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Arla Dean
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1940
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Mima
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1940
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Mabel "Lucky" DuBarry
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1940
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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Diana Wilson
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1939
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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Audrey Hilton
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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Norma Malone
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1939
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Nicky Duval
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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Manuela
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1938
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Tura
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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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Dorothy Wyndham
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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1937
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Anita Alvarez
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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Marama
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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Molly Fuller
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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Carmelita Castillo
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1937
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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Ulah
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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1930
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