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Road to Bali
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73 editions published between 1952 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unsrupulous South Sea island prince
Bob Hope : my life in jokes
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4 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 1,440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide To mark his 100th birthday, Bob Hope, along with his daughter Linda, compile hundreds of jokes he has told throughout the years interweaving how they reflected his own life
Top hat
by Mark Sandrich
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2 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in English and held by 1,210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace
The Muppet movie
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7 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and held by 1,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide On a fine day not so long ago, Kermit the Frog was playing and singing in the swamp. A lost Hollywood talent agent hears him, and tells him he has talent. Therefore, Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find fame and fortune. Along the way Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, the Electric Mayhem band, and the romantically inclined Miss Piggy join him. Fast food magnate Doc Hopper--who is determined to enlist Kermit as spokes-frog for his southern fried frog-leg restaurants--also follows him. Doc Hopper employs all means underhand to suborn Kermit, including abducting Miss Piggy. Kermit must make a choice between stopping Hopper and dashing the other Muppets dreams of the big time
Bob Hope's Confessions of a hooker : my lifelong love affair with golf
by Bob Hope
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5 editions published between 1985 and 1987 in English and held by 1,093 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Spotlights the memorable moments of more than fifty years of golfing
Road to Morocco
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10 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 1,019 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The lone survivors of a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean, our heroes find themselves in the company of Princess Shalimar (Lamour), who has purchased Bob and plans to make him her husband. This is the "Moonlight Becomes You" episode, with Bing in his white suit, at the peak of his powers, and is the third "Road" picture
My favorite brunette
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75 editions published between 1947 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In this spoof of detective stories, baby photographer Hope substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery
Road to Utopia
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13 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in English and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour
I never left home
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12 editions published between 1944 and 1946 in English and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Road to Singapore
by Victor Schertzinger
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8 editions published between 1940 and 2010 in English and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon (Crosby) comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan (Hope) run to the furthest point they can find on a map - Singapore. On one of their pub-crawls, they discover Mima (Lamour), who is being tormented by her bullwhip-toting dance partner. They rescue her and she becomes their co-habitating caretaker. All is fine until Josh and Ace both fall for Mima, but in the end good friends and true love find their way home
Pioneers of primetime
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5 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in English and held by 533 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A tribute to the icons of early television and an entertaining retrospective on the golden age of television comedy. Includes footage from shows such as "The Milton Berle show", "The Ed Sullivan show", "The Jack Benny show", "The Red Skelton show", "I love Lucy", and "The Honeymooners." Six years in the making, the program features exclusive in-depth interviews with an unprecedented collection of TV's early stars
Road to Zanzibar
by Victor Schert
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6 editions published between 1941 and 2002 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The second of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a couple of scheming carnival performers
The paleface
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6 editions published between 1985 and 2002 in English and held by 447 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A timid frontier dentist finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity Jane as she fights off outlaws and Indians
Son of Paleface
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10 editions published between 1987 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way
The ghost breakers
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7 editions published between 1940 and 2002 in English and held by 376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Larry Lawrence (Hope), a Manhattan radio commentator sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk and Larry are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter (Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle
Fancy pants
by George Marshall
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6 editions published between 1950 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A zany red-head and her mother bring back a bogus butler to frontier New Mexico
The Lemon drop kid
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10 editions published between 1951 and 2001 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A racetrack betting tipster at a Florida racetrack offers some "good advice" and lives to regret it. It's his money or his life when mobster Moose Moran gives him until Christmas to make up a $10,000 error
The road to Hong Kong
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7 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Harry (Crosby) and Chester (Hope) travel to Tibet to search for a drug to restore Chester's memory. Once they find the cure, Chester's memory becomes so good that he accidentally memorizes a secret formula for space navigation. Soon the two meet up with a beautiful spy (Collins) and get slightly sidetracked ... to another planet!
The best of Johnny Carson and friends!
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2 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 301 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Contains 35 episodes of classic television--The Johnny Carson Show , Carson's Cellar, The Johnny Carson Morning Show, Who Do You Trust?, The Jack Benny Program, Bobby Darin and Friends, Frank Sinatra Timex Special, Timex All Star Comedy Show, Caesar's Hour, Colgate Comedy Hour , The Martha Raye Show, Shower of Stars, Stars in the Eye, The Milton Berle Show
Road to Rio
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8 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A pair of down-and-out Hollywood musicians find themselves on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro where they meet a beautiful woman whose sinister guardian is trying to marry her off to a swindler more
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Hope, Leslie T. 1903-2003
Hope, Leslie Townes.
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Hope, Robert, 1903-2003
Townes Hope, Leslie 1903-2003
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