Bob Hope: I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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Bob Hope: I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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Bob Hope: I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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Bob Hope: A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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Bob Hope: A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
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Bob was a master mason.
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At 69 years, Bob's marriage to Dolores Hope holds the record for the longest Hollywood marriage.
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In 1997, Congress named Bob an honorary U.S. veteran, citing his decades of entertaining troops around the world. He is the only person to receive that distinction.
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Bob was the Grandfather of actress Leslie Hope.
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In 1999, Bob became the first to start the tradition of the official lighting of the Christmas Tree in Disneyland. Afterwards, he and Dolores drove their own golf cart down Main Street, through Frontier Land to Club 33 for dinner.
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Bob graduated from Fairmount High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bob's first show business job was as a dancer in the 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' vaudeville review in Cleveland in 1924.
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Los Angeles National Cemetery dedicated veterans' chapel in his name to salute his lifetime of service entertaining U.S. troops.
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Bob has two theaters named after him, one in London and another in California.
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Bob was honored on the 'Dean Martin' Celebrity Roasts in 1974.
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Bob's wife Dolores was born 27th May 1909. She and Bob celebrated their birthdays on 28th May every year - splitting the difference between their respective real birthdays.
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Bob was appointed an honorary CBE in 1976.
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Bob change his name from Leslie to Bob, because in school they would call the roll as 'Hope, Leslie' and classmates shortened it to "Hopeless."
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Bob's golf buddy was Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of presidents George Bush and George W. Bush.
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Bob received 58 honorary degrees.
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Bob holds two entries in The Guinness Book of World Records. One is for having the distinction of being the entertainer with the longest running contract with a single network - spanning sixty-one years.
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The other Guinness record is for being the "most honored entertainer", with over 1500 awards.
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In the 1950s, Bob was a part-owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. His guest appearance in I Love Lucy (1951) centered around his attending a Yankees-Indians game at Yankee Stadium.
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Bob's first big part in the Broadway version of Roberta in 1933.
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Bob entertained the troops overseas in every war from WWII to the Gulf War with the USO.
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Bob and his wife had 4 adopted children: Eleanora "Nora" Avis, Anthony, Linda and Kelly.
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Bob was married to Dolores Hope from February, 1934 until his death in July, 2003.
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Bob was approximately 5' 11½" (1.82 m).
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Bob is the most honored entertainer ever.
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Bob never received an Oscar.
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Hope hosted the Academy Awards a record 16 times.
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Also Known As: Old Ski Nose
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Bob has 4 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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