Bob Hope talks about stage shows & radio & censorship

Add "&fmt=18" for the high-resolution version. Bob Rosengarden is briefly heard playing a song called LET'S BEGIN. Which Bob sang in a musical called ROBERTA.

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[RegisPhilbinFan]

bob hope, what a guy

[TheFrontrowkid]

Bob Hope was bucked off a mechanical horse he was riding while making the movie, Fancy Pants, at Paramount. I believe he sustained back injuries and had to spent time in the hospital. He mentions this incident in his autobiography, "Have Tux, Will Travel."

[Onlymusical]

@TheFrontrowkid Timothy White, the young reporter who interviewed Hope in the awe-inspiring article "The Road Not Taken" for Rolling Stone Magazine in '81 (when Rolling Stone was great), died of a heart attack long before Hope's death. Goes to show you that you never know. Hope's mother, by the way, had also lived to see the Big One-Oh-Oh. Hope is reviled in many quarters today for not bowing down to Johnny Carson when Carson was booted but only Hope acted sensibly and kept it in perspective.

[Onlymusical]

@indigoDroog I thought they were on the Smithsonian exhibit site ("Bob Hope and American Variety"), a vast trove, but I just spent a couple minutes looking around there and didn't see them, which doesn't mean they aren't there. I'm not sure where they are offhand since it's been several years but they exist and shouldn't be hard to find. The Cavett interview was largely forgotten then Timothy White rebroke the astonishing story in a great article ("The Road Not Taken") in Rolling Stone c. 1981.

[indigoDroog]

@Onlymusical where did you find the photos?! please link it, id love to see :)

[Onlymusical]

"They didn't show me a mirror for about 7 weeks." There are early photos of Hope before the accident in which he resembles the Hope we know but his nose and chin are normal. The difference is stark. He looks like his own cousin or something before his face was destroyed and rebuilt. He never talked about this dreadful accident publicly before this interview with Cavett. Crosby once alluded to some life-changing experience for Hope in Reader's Digest back in the '50s but didn't explain it.

[TheFrontrowkid]

In his autobiography, "Have Tux Will Travel," Hope tells the story about getting hit with a rock while defending his dog, but he claims that his nose was like that since he was born. He makes no mention about the accident about falling out of a tree.

[Impowers]

This is the only time that Bob Hope talks about the accident that destroyed his face in his teens, although I think it happened a couple of years later than he indicates. I thought journalist Timothy White broke that story in "Rolling Stone Magazine" back around '81 in a great article entitled "The Road Not Taken" but here's Hope a decade earlier on a Cavett show, glossing over it but nevertheless mentioning it for the first time. It had been one of his darkest secrets.

[MeztizaAngie]

he is great

[diddeliduddi]

I like old bobby, :D but how come dicky seems so nervously diffident all the time?