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BOB HOPE
Bob Hope, radio and motion picture comedian, was born in London, England.
Mr. Hope began in vaudeville, and has also appeared on the stage; now in motion pictures and radio. His stage appearances were in “Roberta”; “Ziegfield Follies”; and “Red Hot and Blue,” 1936. He has been in the following motion pictures: “Big Broadcast of 1938"; “College Swing,” 1938; “Give Me a Sailor,” 1938; “Thanks for the Memory,” 1938; “Never Say Die,” 1938; “Some Like It Hot,” 1939; “Cat and the Canary,” 1939; “The Road to Singapore,” 1940; “The Ghost Breakers,” 1941; “Caught in the Draft,” 1941; “Nothing But the Truth,” 1941; “Road to Zanzibar,” 1941; “Louisiana Purchase,” 1942' “Road to Morocco,” 1942; “My Favorite Blonde,” 1942; “They Got Me Covered,” 1943; “Let’s Face It,” 1943; “The Road to Utopia”; “The Princess and the Pirate”; “Road to Rio”; “Where There’s Life,”
Mr. Hope is the author of “I Never Left Home,” 1944. He entertained Service Forces, overseas, in 1945.
Address: care of Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California
Transcribed 9-8-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 93, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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