Skip Navigation

Scout Archives

Home Projects Publications Archives About Sign Up or Log In

Bob Hope and American Variety

One of the most enduring legends of American film, stage, and screen receives an excellent tribute on this online exhibit from the Library of Congress, dealing with his 70 year career, and more broadly, the enduring legacy and history of vaudeville in the United States. Different sections of the site include an essay on the early life of Bob Hope, the story of American vaudeville in the first decades of the 20th century, and documentation on Bob Hope's prodigious service abroad for the United Service Organization (USO). One of the most compelling sections of the site is titled Faces of Bob Hope, which contains dozens of the portraits and good-natured caricatures of the visage that Bing Crosby often referred to as "The Ski Slope." Another useful section contains information about Mr. Hope's voluminous joke file (over 85,000 pages), along with several scanned images of these pages.
Archived Scout Publication URL
Scout Publication
Language
Date of Scout Publication
September 27th, 2002
Date Of Record Creation
April 8th, 2003 at 9:43am
Date Of Record Release
April 8th, 2003 at 9:43am
Resource URL Clicks
18

Internal

Cumulative Rating
0
Add Comment

Comments

(no comments available yet)