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Hope continued to act, in addition to stand-up comedy USO performances for American military personnel that were stationed overseas. Hope's last starring role in a theatrical feature film was the 1972 comedy Cancel My Reservation; his final starring role in a film was the 1986 made-for-television movie A Masterpiece of Murder). He retired in 1998.
Hope made a guest appearance on The Golden Girls, season 4, episode 17 (aired February 25, 1989) called "You Gotta Have Hope" in which Rose is convinced Bob Hope is her father. In 1992, Hope made a guest appearance as himself on the animated Fox series The Simpsons in the episode " Lisa the Beauty Queen " (season 4, episode 4). [ 56 ]
The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker for a bet. When her father does not return, he learns that caring for a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle.
Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Birthday Party at West Point (5/25/81) Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Look at the New Season: It's Still Free and Well Worth It! (9/27/81) Bob Hope's All-Star Celebration Opening the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum (10/22/81) Bob Hope's Stand Up and Cheer for the National Football League's 60th Year (11/22/81)
Paris Holiday is a 1958 American comedy film starring Bob Hope, which was directed by Gerd Oswald, and written by Edmund Beloin and Dean Riesner from a story by Hope. The film also features French comedian Fernandel, Anita Ekberg and Martha Hyer, and a rare appearance by writer/director Preston Sturges.
The story of the Foy vaudeville family. Bob Hope had played Eddie Foy Sr. in the 1955 film of the same name. In this Chrysler Theatre presentation, Eddie Foy Jr. plays his own father (reprising the role he played in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy), Mickey Rooney plays George M. Cohan, and the Foy children are played by The Osmond Brothers.
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Bob Hope was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Unusually for an American film, Bachelor in Paradise had its World Premiere at the Coliseum Theatre in London's West End on November 2, 1961, with a personal appearance from Bob Hope (although Hope himself was born in Britain).