Summary
Bob Hope - Part 2
Bob Hope's recalls encounters with famous figures early in his career and the development of his career from Broadway vaudeville to his first Hollywood screen tests and films. Hope also recalls how he met his wife, Delores Reade.See the full content of this document
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A century of Hope.
While performing in Roberta, his first major role on Broadway, our hero meets a beautiful young singer named Dolores Reade.
PART II. One night while I was in Roberta, my pal, George Murphy, who was doing a fine job of specialty capering in the show, invited me to the Lambs Club. We downed a couple of beers, and he said, "I want you to hear a girl sing. Her name is Dolores Reade. She sings at the Vogue Club." We went over to the Vogue, on 57th Street. It was a little club Bea Lillie had opened. She didn't own it, but she'd opened it. And I heard this girl sing. She had a low, husky voice and she s...See the full content of this document
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