Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 5, 2020 19:03:37 GMT
CLASSIC ACTORS A-Z: BOB HOPE
A. AIRPORT - After his death in 2003, an airport in Burbank, California was renamed "Bob Hope Airport" in his honor
B. BOXING - Was a super-featherweight with three wins to his credit.
C. CANCEL MY RESERVATION - 1972 film he appeared in and his last leading role in a theatrical film.
D. DOROTHY Lamour - His lady co-star in most of the "Road" movies.
E. ENTERTAINED the TROOPS at oversea shows during every war from WW II, Korea, and Vietnam thru the Gulf conflicts.
F. FAVORITE - In "My Favorite Blonde" (1942) she was Madeleine Carroll (as Karen Bentley)
G. GHOST BREAKERS, The - he played radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence in a haunted castle
H. HOPE, William Henry - his father, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.
I. I'LL Take Sweden -- 1965 film as 'Bob Holcomb'
J. JACK Hope - His brother
K. KNIGHTHOOD - honorary bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998
L. LESLIE Townes Hope .. was his birth name .. NOT "Robert"
M. MONSIEUR Beaucaire (1946) - in which he played the eponymous hero.
N. NICKY NELSON is his role in 1939s SOME LIKE IT HOT
O. OHIO - For a time, he attended the Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster, Ohio.
P. PAL Bing Crosby had uncredited roles in many of his films as well as co-starring in the "Road to _" series.
Q. QUEEN MARY - While aboard the RMS Queen Mary when World War II began in September 1939, Hope volunteered to perform a special show for the passengers, during which he sang "Thanks for the Memory" with rewritten lyrics.
R. ROAD -- 7 location titles for films made with Bing Crosby from 1940 to 1962.
S. SAN Fernando Mission Cemetery, U.S - His final resting place.
T. TOWNES - His middle name at birth (Leslie TOWNES Hope)
U. USO - For his service to his country through the USO, he was awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968.
V. VAUDEVILLE - First show biz job was as a dancer in the Fatty Arbuckle Vaudeville Revue in Cleveland in 1924.
W. WALTER Winchell - a newspaper gossip columnist to whom Hope remarked about the movie "Going Spanish" (1934), "When they catch [bank robber] Dillinger, they're going to make him sit through it twice."
X. eXtemporaneous - master of the ad-lib on radio, tv or in his films
Y - YOUNG - A young Bob Hope 1903.
Z. ZANZIBAR - the destination of his 1941 "Road to _ " picture
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, BOB !
ufg !
A. AIRPORT - After his death in 2003, an airport in Burbank, California was renamed "Bob Hope Airport" in his honor
B. BOXING - Was a super-featherweight with three wins to his credit.
C. CANCEL MY RESERVATION - 1972 film he appeared in and his last leading role in a theatrical film.
D. DOROTHY Lamour - His lady co-star in most of the "Road" movies.
E. ENTERTAINED the TROOPS at oversea shows during every war from WW II, Korea, and Vietnam thru the Gulf conflicts.
F. FAVORITE - In "My Favorite Blonde" (1942) she was Madeleine Carroll (as Karen Bentley)
G. GHOST BREAKERS, The - he played radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence in a haunted castle
H. HOPE, William Henry - his father, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.
I. I'LL Take Sweden -- 1965 film as 'Bob Holcomb'
J. JACK Hope - His brother
K. KNIGHTHOOD - honorary bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998
L. LESLIE Townes Hope .. was his birth name .. NOT "Robert"
M. MONSIEUR Beaucaire (1946) - in which he played the eponymous hero.
N. NICKY NELSON is his role in 1939s SOME LIKE IT HOT
O. OHIO - For a time, he attended the Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster, Ohio.
P. PAL Bing Crosby had uncredited roles in many of his films as well as co-starring in the "Road to _" series.
Q. QUEEN MARY - While aboard the RMS Queen Mary when World War II began in September 1939, Hope volunteered to perform a special show for the passengers, during which he sang "Thanks for the Memory" with rewritten lyrics.
R. ROAD -- 7 location titles for films made with Bing Crosby from 1940 to 1962.
S. SAN Fernando Mission Cemetery, U.S - His final resting place.
T. TOWNES - His middle name at birth (Leslie TOWNES Hope)
U. USO - For his service to his country through the USO, he was awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968.
V. VAUDEVILLE - First show biz job was as a dancer in the Fatty Arbuckle Vaudeville Revue in Cleveland in 1924.
W. WALTER Winchell - a newspaper gossip columnist to whom Hope remarked about the movie "Going Spanish" (1934), "When they catch [bank robber] Dillinger, they're going to make him sit through it twice."
X. eXtemporaneous - master of the ad-lib on radio, tv or in his films
Y - YOUNG - A young Bob Hope 1903.
Z. ZANZIBAR - the destination of his 1941 "Road to _ " picture
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, BOB !
ufg !