Bob Hope

Hope's film career

Hope starred in several one-reel comedies for Warner Bros. and from there his movie career accelerated quickly. As a movie star he was best known for the road movies in which he was paired with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, as well as the movie My Favorite Brunette. He never won any Oscars for these, though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored him five times—with two honorary Oscars, two special awards and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. As host of the Academy Awards - a role he filled numerous times from the 1950s to the 1980s - he once joked about Oscar time, "Or as it's known at my house, Passover."

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Movie star - Road movie - Bing Crosby - Dorothy Lamour - My Favorite Brunette - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Oscar - Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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