Bob Hope said he wouldn’t do the movie without her, so she joined for a musical cameo as a sort of compromise. The film ...

Harriet Petersen, of Cranston, wrote, "It was the only entertainment he had during his nine months of active service and now he will never see another." ...

And it was that style that I think Bob developed into what we think of today as stand-up comedy. Hope started appearing in films in the 1930s, and went on to become a huge movie star. He also ...