Bob Hope
Painting by Norman Rockwell for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1954.
Bob Hope was an American actor, singer, dancer, athlete, author and vaudevillian. He was born in London, England, in 1903 and immigrated to America at the age of four, growing up in Ohio. He performed shows for active servicemen and military personnel while working with the USO. He owned a small share of his hometown baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. He lived to the age of 100, dying in California in 2003.
See also the companion to this piece, Jack Benny.
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