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"Airplanes" is a song recorded by American electropop artist the Ready Set. The song was released as a cover in the compilation album, Punk Goes Pop Volume 03. . [ 114 ] The song peaked at number 22 on Billboard Rock Digital Song Sales and stayed one week on chart. [ 115 ]
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bob Hope and his 1944 USO troupe visiting a hospital ward in the South Pacific (from left) Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna, Bob Hope, Patty Thomas, and Frances Langford. Bob Hope, Patty Thomas and Frances Langford with GI giving local flowers to them in a 1944 show Patty Thomas and Frances Langford in 1944 on a South Pacific beach, a Naval Base on ...
Hope was paid US$25,000 ($251,815 in 2023 dollars [1]) per week for those episodes he merely introduced, and US$500,000 ($5,036,304 in 2023 dollars [1]) for those in which he starred. Hope's performances consisted of his typical joke- and celebrity-filled blackout sketches. These were usually called Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Special.
My Favorite Blonde is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll. [2] Based on a story by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the days just before the United States' entry into World War II.
Gerardo Luigi Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 21, 1986) was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist who played the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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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.