Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Bob Hope (1903–2003), born Leslie Townes Hope in London, England, was an American comedian, actor and entertainer whose career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, film and television. His family settled in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was a child, and he worked his way up through vaudeville to Broadway. His turning point came in 1938 with a national radio show and the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, in which he introduced his signature song, "Thanks for the Memory." With Bing Crosby he made the popular "Road to" comedies, and he hosted the Academy Awards ceremony nineteen times. For five decades, beginning in 1941, he traveled with the USO to entertain American service members around the world. Congress named him an honorary veteran in 1997, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and an honorary British knighthood.
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Song, Dance and Comedy in Classic Hollywood
Fred Astaire set a new standard for dance on film in musicals such as Top Hat (1935). He co-starred with Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn (1942), the film that introduced the song White Christmas. Crosby and Bob Hope made seven 'Road to' comedies together, and Hope spent decades entertaining American troops overseas. Shirley Temple, the most popular child star of the 1930s, sang and danced in a string of box-office hits and later served as a U.S. ambassador.
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