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Narrated by the great Bob Hope, this NBC News documentary originally aired in 1961. It reviews the life and times of Will Rogers, the beloved American humorist. Featuring archival footage, anecdotes, and photographs. A must watch for Will Rogers fans, or anyone who would like to get to know the fellow who never met a man he didn't like.
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Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
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Bob Hope owned the crown as King of Comedy on stage, radio, the silver screen and television. In fact, no performer made a more successful and seamless transition into the world of television than Bob Hope. For 50 years, his hilarious TV specials became the showcase for the stars of the day and defined the variety show for a generation of loyal fans. Captures Bob's favorite TV moments, rare vintage clips, outtakes, movie shorts, Christmas specials,...
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Online version of an ongoing exhibition at the Library of Congress that opened May 10, 2000 and was curated by Samuel Brylawski. Documents the career of entertainer Bob Hope through a variety of objects from the collections at the Library of Congress. Features letters, advertisements, photographs, programs, business cards, brochures, scrapbooks, joke notebooks, musical scores, and sheet music.
15) The Muppet movie
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Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog share the limelight in Kermit's search for fame and fortune in Hollywood.
16) Fancy Pants
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Well, fancy that! Bob Hope and Lucille Ball join forces and let loose a stampede of laughs in this classic screwball comedy. Wise-cracking Bob Hope plays Humphrey, a British valet brought to the Old West to teach Old World charms to a certain redheaded tomboy named Agatha Floud (Lucille Ball). Of course, Humphrey's not really a valet. He's an out-of-work actor who's stumbled across the role of his life... but will proper etiquette protect Humphrey...
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When their spouses are unable to join them on a planned group trip, longtime friends, Larry Gilbert and Kitty Weaver find themselves thrown together and falling in love under the sun in beautiful Acapulco. With their vacation coming to an end, both Larry and Kitty find themselves torn between feeling guilty about the affair and whether or not to end it.
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When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
19) The paleface
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A timid frontier dentist finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity Jane as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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