Overview

Dubbed “America’s most honored citizen and our favorite clown” a stage actor,

movie superstar and television host and personality:

BOB HOPE

with a career that included appearances on stage in vaudeville shows and Broadway productions. He began performing on the radio in 1934 mostly with NBC radio, and switched to television when that medium became popular in the 1950s. He started hosting regular TV specials in 1954, and hosted the Academy Awards nineteen times from 1939 through 1977. Overlapping with this was his movie career, spanning 1934 to 1972, and his USO tours, which he conducted from 1941 to 1991. 

Hope starred in 54 theatrical features between 1938 and 1972, as well as cameos and short films but after the release of Road to Singapore (1940), Hope’s screen career took off.  The highly successful “Road” movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. consists of seven films made between 1940 and 1962: Road to Singapore (1940), Road to Zanzibar (1941), Road to Morocco (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Road to Bali (1952), and The Road to Hong Kong (1962).

As part of the AT THE MOVIES series, here then are presented highlights from The Road To Utopia, The Road To Rio and The Road to Bali.