Inside Bob Hope's Difficult Final Days

No one in the history of show business has ever had a career like Bob Hope.

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Whether it’s the length of his career, the quality, the originality or the variety. Bob Hope is truly a one of a kind legend, who we will not see the likes of again. He was a legend amongst legends. Born on May 29th, 1903, he was a British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete and author. He was born in the Eltham district of southeast London, arrived in the United States with his family at the age of four, and grew up near Cleveland, Ohio.

Bob Hope’s astonishing career spanned nearly eighty years, with Hope appearing in more than seventy short and feature films. Fifty four of those feature films had Hope as the star. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show nineteen times, which is more than any other host, Hope appeared in many stage productions and television roles. If that’s not enough, he also wrote fourteen books. The song Thanks for the Memory was his signature tune. Bob Hope even had a crack at being an athlete, with a brief career as a boxer in the late 1910s.

He began his career in show business in the early 1920s, initially as a comedian and dancer on the vaudeville circuit, before acting on Broadway. Hope began appearing on radio and in films starting in 1934. He was praised for his comedic timing, in which he specialized in one-liners and the rapid-fire delivery of jokes that were often self-deprecating. He was a huge component in establishing modern American stand-up comedy.

Between 1941 and 1991, Hope made fifty seven tours for the United Service Organizations, entertaining active duty American military personnel around the world. He also appeared in numerous television specials for NBC during his career and was one of the first users of cue cards. Hope retired from public life in 1997. But as sad as it sounds, the greater the life, the harder the fall. Bob Hope’s final days were difficult purely because of the greatness of the man.

Join us as we take a look at his final decade, how he deteriorated and the impact he left on those who knew him best.

Inside Bob Hope's Difficult Final Days