Bob Hope vol. 2

At the Movies

Road To Utopia
Road To Rio
Road To Bali

Bob Hope vol. 2

At the Movies

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Name Credit
Bob Hope Bob Hope Movie Star-Comedian

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.

 

 

1 Road To Utopia: Overture Bob Hope

01:35

2 Road To Utopia: Goodtime Charlie Bob Hope

02:30

3 Road To Utopia: It’s Anybody’s Spring Bob Hope

01:49

4 Road To Utopia: Personality Bob Hope

01:46

5 Road To Utopia: Welcome To My Dream Bob Hope

01:28

6 Road To Utopia: Put It There, Pal Bob Hope

01:52

7 Road To Utopia: Would You Bob Hope

01:32

8 Road To Utopia: Welcome To My Dream / Finale Bob Hope

03:11

9 Road To Rio: Overture Bob Hope

01:34

10 Road To Rio: Appalachicola, Fla. / The Swanee River / Carry Me Back To Old Virginny Bob Hope

04:04

11 Road To Rio: But Beautiful Bob Hope

01:48

12 Road To Rio: You Don’t Have To Know the Language Bob Hope

04:04

13 Road To Rio: Diz Que Tem Bob Hope

00:59

14 Road To Rio: Experience Bob Hope

04:03

15 Road To Rio: Batuque Nio Morro / Finale Bob Hope

05:27

16 Road To Bali: Overture Bob Hope

01:28

17 Road To Bali: Chicago Style / The Whiffenpoof Song Bob Hope

04:22

18 Road To Bali: Moonflowers Bob Hope

02:41

19 Road To Bali: Dance / Hoot Mon Bob Hope

03:30

20 Road To Bali: The Witchcraft Bob Hope

00:58