MissGoddess
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[nobr]That Pooh, silly old bear, was such a hunny, but my tippy top favorite character was Tigger! :x [nobr]
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I just got a copy on deepdiscount.com
Amazon has it available, too.
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[nobr]He's kind of dressed the way guys do today, shirt untucked. But for a casual look, I Iike him best a little more "dolled up"
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Love your inventive "ratings system", Danny!
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I found a paperback edition that is apparently "brand new" at half.com for a reasonable price and just went with that. I look forward to reading it, after I've finished Brian Aherne's A Dreadful Man (hilarious).
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I'm tempted just to get the one with Maureen's commentary anyway, becasue that is something priceless in itself.
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[nobr]I thought this one was cute:
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Unfortunately, I've never seen They Got Me Covered.
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My pleasure, BHF! (great pix!) And I do mean it was a pleasure. I just started reading a little about his life and was so impressed at all the territory he covered (literally and professionally) and I thought he deserved a thread a thread all his own.
What impresses me the most is the feeling of joie de vivre he exudes, a genuine sense of life and I think that's why he lived so long. Sometimes, it seems only mean people hang around forever, but he (and George Burns) proved that wrong.
I love the Road pictures, too, and my favorite is actually The Road to Utopia, though the first one, The Road to Singapore, holds a special fondness for me.
I will always try to stop what I'm doing if a Bob Hope movie comes on TCM, because it's worth it share a laugh or two with him.
Thanks for the memories, Bob!
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> Bob Hope was hilarious but I'm a fan more of his
> radio work and his early TV work.
> To listen to him improvise in those radio shows was
> often much better than the script.
I'd love to listen to some of his radio shows and I can just imagine how quick he was. I like the little short they air on TCM sometimes, with Lana holding up a sizzling steak to the microphone so the boys overseas can hear.
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Whew! The publisher of that book just got a brand spankin' new customer because I'm off to Amazon to look for a copy!!
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Webb's "Waldo Lydecker" has so many wonderful lines, especially whenever he sees or even thinks about Vincent Price's "Shelby": "...a male beauty in distress." Lol! He was a unique figure in Hollywood films, irreplaceable.
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Anyone a fan (besides me and BobHopeFan1940)?
I see My Favorite Brunette is currently airing on TCM (I've always wished it could be restored---the print quality is rather poor) and that, along with The Ghost Breakers, The Lemon Drop Kid, The Princess and the Pirate, and Bachelor in Paradise are among my favorites by this happy man. He brought so much joy into the world, and seemed to enjoy a relatively pleasant life---a long pleasant life.
Trivia:
An American legend, Bob Hope was actually born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903 in London, England. He was the 5th of seven sons.
One of his first "performances": Imitating Charlie Chaplin in front of a Cleveland, OH firehouse in 1909.
One of Bob's occupations as a youth in Cleveland was as pool hustler. :0
Another odd job was a brief stint as an amateur boxer, under the name "Packy East". Bob gave up boxing when he was "not only carried out of the ring but into the ring."
When Bob finally made it to Broadway, it was in some of the biggest hits of the 1930s including: Roberta, Ziegield Follies with Fanny Brice and Red Hot and Blue with Jimmy Durante. The latter show led to his first picture, The Big Broadcast of 1938.
It was when Bob appeared on the "Capital Family Hour" radio show that he made his first, fateful appearance with Bing Crosby.
Bob introduced two Academy Award-winning songs: "Thanks for the Memory" with Shirley Ross in The Big Broadcast of 1938, and "Buttons and Bowes" from The Paleface (1948).
Paramount planned the first "Road" picture, The Road to Mandalay (later changed to The Road to Singapore) not with Bob, Bing & Dot but as a vehicle for George Burns and Gracie Allen. Because Burns and Allen were unavailable, Paramount tapped Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie and only because they also were overbooked, did the classic trio sign on.
Although Bob appeared in an early television program for an experimental CBS station in as early as 1932, it was not until 1950 that Bob did his first of many specials. His first guests: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Beatrice Lillie and Dinah Shore. It began a 60-year relationship with his network, NBC.
Bob's first "entertaining the troops" appearance would be in 1941 and would take him through various combat theaters in World War II, Vietnam, Beirut and the Persian Gulf. In 1997 in New Orleans, he and his wife were present as a naval ship was christened USNS Bob Hope (AKR 300), the first of a new class of ships; the Air Force followed by naming a new C-17 the "Spirit of Bob Hope".
Besides numerous awards and accollades in the U.S., in 1998 Bob received from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II an honorary knighthood: Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE).
Bob Hope is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's most honored entertainer with more than 2,000 awards and citations for humanitarian and professional efforts, including 54 honorary doctorates.
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Laura is one of my all-time favorite movies and I even got to see it last year on the big screen. I think all the actors and actresses are perfectly cast. It's probably my favorite performance by both Dana Andrews and Gene Tienery. I could watch it daily.
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Love your post, NZ and totally AGREE.
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I might get Von Ryan's Express, especially if there is a commentary.
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I hear they are doing a restoration of TQM for another dvd release, but I still would like to have the one with Maureen's comments.
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I like Raft in Scarface, Manpower, They Drive by Night and Some Like it Hot. He's a bit stiff but that's his style and it doesn't really bother me. At one point, before he came to Hollywood, he was a "taxi" dancer for a while. That struck me as so incongruous! But, apparently, he really was an excellent dancer. You never can tell.
I'm hoping your trip to Morocco is a pleasant one!
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It sounds like an ideal role for him. I'm looking forward to seeng how George Raft is in it, too, since he can either be very effective or bit wooden. I would imagine this was one of his livelier performances.
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Peter & Audrey in HTSAM:
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Another studio shot for HTSAM:
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I'll check the schedule to see it's coming up again.
Coming of Age
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Ah, yes. That's one of the high-priced bios I looked at. Hopefully I can find an affordable copy one day. The other option is of course the library, but I rarely go there, unfortunately.
However, I am vastly enjoying Brian Aherne's book so far, it's hilarious! I think he found just the right "voice" to tell his stories about George: bemused, amused and tolerant. Anyway, I'm laughing-out-loud constantly at that rogue's antics!
Isn't it rather amazing that Zsa Zsa is still around? I'd love for Osbourne to get her on TCM to start "reminiscing"....but her tales might be too Hungarian Paprika for TCM's audience! Lol!
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