Bob Hope

Biography

Born 05/29/1903

The English-born Hope and his family emigrated to the USA in 1907. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hope drifted into vaudeville in the 1920s and made his Broadway musical debut in 1933's "Roberta", although his early act was "song, patter, and eccentric dancing," and his uncomplicated, reachable and...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 1994, received American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement-Male
In 1985, received Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award
In 1985, received People's Choice Award for All-Time Favorite Entertainer

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Highlights

In 1995, String of annual NBC Christmas shows broken
In 1993, Awarded his fourth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In 1971, Applied for visa to Hanoi to negotiate release of US prisoners

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Family & Companions

Avis Hope: mother (ran boarding-house)
Jim Hope: brother (wrote memoir about family, "Mother Had Hopes")

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