Bob Hope — Actor (19)
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Casanova's Big Night (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Casanova's Big Night
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Joan Fontaine …
other title: La grande notte di Casanova / Der Schürzenjäger von Venedig …
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
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Cancel My Reservation (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cancel My Reservation
director: Paul Bogart actor: Bob Hope / Eva Marie Saint …
other title: Prenotazione annullata / Die Ferien des Mr. Bartlett
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
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Alias Jesse James (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Alias Jesse James
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Rhonda Fleming …
other title: Arriva Jesse James / Valentão Era Apelido …
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
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Fancy Pants (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Fancy Pants
director: George Marshall actor: Bob Hope / Lucille Ball …
other title: Ai vostri ordini signora! / Um Conde em Sinuca …
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
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The Paleface (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Paleface
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Jane Russell …
other title: Viso pallido / Blegansigt …
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Variety Girl (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Variety Girl
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Rivista di stelle / Mädchen für Hollywood …
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Favorite Brunette
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Bob Hope / Dorothy Lamour …
other title: La mia brunetta preferita / En skør detektiv …
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Star Spangled Rhythm
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Signorine, non guardate i marinai / Fantasía de estrellas
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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My Favorite Blonde (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Favorite Blonde
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Bob Hope / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Geliebte Spionin / La Blonde de mes rêves …
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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The Iron Petticoat (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Iron Petticoat
director: Ralph Thomas actor: Bob Hope / Katharine Hepburn …
other title: La sottana di ferro / Um Americano em Moscovo …
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
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Joys (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Joys
director: Dick McDonough actor: Bob Hope / Don Adams …
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Cat and the Canary
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Bob Hope / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Il fantasma di mezzanotte / Erbschaft um Mitternacht …
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
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Story of G.I. Joe (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Story of G.I. Joe
director: William A. Wellman actor: Burgess Meredith / Robert Mitchum …
other title: I forzati della gloria / Schlachtgewitter am Monte Cassino …
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.