![]() But a thorough reading told him that the entire story - and especially the role of the women in Hope's life - was still to be told. "To tell the truth, when I first started to do this, I almost said, 'Maybe I shouldn't write this book, there are so many books about him,' " Marx recalled. Marx found a large body of work about Hope's life, including a detailed biography, by former Hope spokesman William Faith. I guess nobody wanted to attack this idol, this icon." "I had a good outline on it," he remembered, but his agent "didn't seem to be able to get any interest in it from the publishers. Marx switched the topic of his book contract to Sam Goldwyn, and the Hope project was shelved. "If you don't want me to do an honest biography about him, I won't do it at all." And I said, well, then, what's the point of writing a book? I don't want to do another book that's just, 'I was a big hit here, I was a big hit there.' But they came to me and said we would prefer that I don't do the bad things about him. In fact, Marx first tried to write a book about Hope in the early 1970s. "The fact that I had a personal relationship helped," he noted, "because I was able to recount things that Louis Shurr, his agent, had told me about Hope and his women - never knowing I was going to write a book about it." Marx recounts those experiences in detail in The Secret Life of Bob Hope and he gained insights for the book from the contacts he made at that time. "It was just, I thought, that he was a little over the hill for making those kind of movies." "I can't say they were his worst pictures, but they weren't very good," Marx said. Marx and his writing partner, Bob Fisher, worked on four films for Hope: Eight on the Lam, A Global Affair, I'll Take Sweden and Cancel My Reservation, which Marx said was the second to last picture Hope made. But he always ended up having outside writers and people sending him jokes - and all these jokes ended up in your script, and they didn't fit the characters you'd written. "He'd rather have 10 cheap writers than two expensive writers," Marx said, "but there was a period where he wasn't getting what he liked, and he hired three or four more expensive writers. Over the years, Hope has used reams of gags from an army of writers. "My father once said, 'He's not really a comedian, but he's a good translator of other people's jokes.' " Writing for Bob Hope was a specialized skill, "sort of like writing a sitcom," Marx said. A good source I've found were the writers," Marx said. I'm surprised he's kept his people who work for him quiet. I think he's controlled everything pretty well. He was buried 3 days later, reburied on Jin custom made grave in California."Hope did have a strong hand, reaching out, stopping a lot of (negative information). 70 years of ad lib material and I'm speechless."īob Hope died of pneumonia on July 27, 2003, 2 months after his 100th birthday. ![]() Upon accepting the appointment, Hope quipped, "I'm speechless. Between 19 he hosted the Academy Awards record seventeen times.Īnd in 1998 he was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. Awards īob Hope was honored with more than 1500 awards. The couple adopted four children: Eleanora, Anthony, Linda, and Kelly. In 1939, Bob Hope married Dolores DeFina (September 19, 2011). These shows made Hope a household name and well liked by most Americans. Hope visited the United States armed forces between 19 during the conflicts in that time period. At the same time, Bob Hope became a comedian. He was also part of some television and radio shows. Years later, he was popular because of some musicals he played in. In this time he was called "Packey East". Career īefore he was an actor, Hope became a professional boxer. In 1908, the Hopes migrated to Cleveland, Ohio. Bob Hope was born on May 29, 1903, in London, England to a Welsh mother and English father.
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