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Article: Thanks for the memory.(Editorials)(Bob Hope dead at age 100)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2003
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Byline: The Register-Guard
There were certainly better singers over the past century than Bob Hope. And better actors. But for sheer breadth of a show-business career, Hope, who died Sunday at the age of 100, outshines them all.
From his start in vaudeville in the 1920s to his last television special - "Laughing with the Presidents" - in 1996, Hope was a certified star on Broadway, in films, on radio and on television.
Just a list of the entertainers with whom Hope worked says as much about his versatility as it does about his longevity. There was Fatty Arbuckle in vaudeville. And Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour in the famed and funny "Road" ...