Key features

• •His career began on the vaudeville stage, where he had third billing behind Siamese twins and trained seals. By the time he took his final bow, he was revered as America s Entertainer. In a career spanning eight decades, Bob Hope did it all from Broadway to Hollywood, stand-up to television. But it was his wartime work for the USO, which started in World War II, that turned the comedian into an ic