The comedian delivered the commencement address, which was full of the kind of humor that made his fortune. Email: Phone: (310) 825-2148ĭescription GRADUATION-Bob Hope embraces his daughter, Nora, 17, after her graduation from Providence High School in Burbank. His legacy includes a multitude of film roles, a marriage that lasted for 69 years and four adopted children to carry on his name and preserve his memory. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Bob Hope's Long-Lost Son and Only Biological Child, William Shurr, Comes Forward In Shocking Revelation It has been nearly ten years since legendary actor, Bob Hope passed away at age 100. UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. the third child (another son) named Kelly was adopted in 1946 while the. Young Research LibraryĬollection Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives Bob Hope is no more, but his life and the events in it including his many awards. Publication Information Los Angeles Times (Hello, Bob Hope, Tony once called out when his father walked in to meet them in a. The American Legion is the nations largest wartime veterans service organization aimed at advocating patriotism across the U.S. His ushers were George and Stephen McCullagh, also brothers of the bridegroom Anthony and Kelly Hope, the bride’s brothers Thomas Malatesta, a cousin of the bride Donald I m w a 11 e, Angelo lelmini, M i c h a el Nardi, David Drees, Richard Breen and Mortimer Joyce. When he turned 95, the comedian donated his personal papers, recordings of radio and television broadcasts, prints of movies, scripts, photographs, posters and 100,000 jokes to the Library of Congress, along with several million dollars to preserve the collection.Title Bob Hope embracing his daughter, Nora after her graduation from Providence High School in Burbank, Calif., 1964 Date Created and/or Issued June 8, 1964 for short) and the boy William Kelly (known as Kelly). McCullagh’s best man was his brother, John Filippini. He had a dollar bill from comedian Jack Benny and a silver set from the queen of England, along with trophies, plaques, medals, silver cups, keys to cities, state declarations from around the world, military patches, autographed artifacts from global leaders and celebrities, and thousands of photographs. His Toluca Lake office was filled with mementos ranging from a 9-foot replica of an Oscar to a doll handed to him by a child at an airport. “What’s important is not what an award means to me, but what it means to them.” “I’ve been given a medal by my country for leaving it, an Oscar in a year when I didn’t make any movies, and a B’nai B’rith Award for being a Gentile.”īut he never took any of the awards lightly, saying once that it was not so much the receiver that mattered, but the giver.
“Maybe Bob never won a competitive Oscar, but he won the hearts of the members of the Academy, the governors of the Academy and the hundreds of millions who watched the Academy Awards presentations,” Frank Pierson, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said in a statement Monday. In all, he hosted or co-hosted the Academy Award show 18 times. That’s where movies go when they die.” His final turn hosting the program came in 1978, the 50th anniversary of the awards.
He began emceeing the Oscars in 1940, and for years hosted the televised Academy Award presentations, opening his first in 1953 with the line “Television. Linda - daughter Kelly - son Andrew - grandson Phyllis Diller Billy Catizone Milton Berle.
He also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1959. Bob HOPE (1903-2003) and Dolores HOPE (1909-2011). He made several films with good friend Lucille Ball, including 1949’s “Sorrowful Jones,” 1950’s “Fancy Pants,” 1963’s “Critic’s Choice” and 1960’s “The Facts of Life,” which was nominated for several Oscars.Īlthough he never won an Oscar for acting (“At home, we think of Oscar week as Passover”), he was honored four times by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his contributions to the world of entertainment.
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