BOB HOPE MONTH PART 1

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, May 2, 1998

BOB HOPE SHOW (3-16-48) Guest Fred Astaire and Bob recreate their days as starv­ing vaudevillians in this broadcast from Wood­land Hills, California with comics Jerry Col­onna and Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen, the mayor of Woodland Hills), singer Trudy Irwin, and Les Brown and his Band of Renown. Pep­sodent, NBC. (30:00)

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (10-7-48) “Elmer the Great” starring Bob Hope in the Ring Lardner story about a home-run hitting baseball player. James Hilton is host. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (28:06)

COMMAND PERFORMANCE #179 (6-14-45) Hostess Ann Rutherford presents Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, Gloria DeHaven, Jerry Colonna, King Sisters, Chu Chu Martinez. It’s “sup­pressed desires” night on Command Perfor­mance and Hope wants to be Lauren Bacall; Ladd wants to be Betty Grable; Rutherford wants to be Gary Cooper; DeHaven wants to be Bob Hope! AFRS. (30:00)

BOB HOPE INTERVIEW (6-26-46) Chicago broadcaster June Merrill interviews Bob Hope who is in town to appear at the Chicago Coli­seum in a benefit performance for LaRabida Sanatorium. WJJD, Chicago. (8:42)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (4-5-43) “The Road to Morocco” starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Ginny Simms in a radio version of the 1942 Paramount film. Bing sells Bob to a slave trader in mysterious Morocco. Hope and Crosby rec­reate their original roles in this version of their third “Road” picture and together they sing “Road to Morocco.” Cast includes Verna Fel­ton, Janet Waldo, Denis Green. Cecil B. DeMille hosts. Lux Soap, CBS/AFRS. (17:20; 24:45; 13:30)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-17-55) Guest Bob Hope joins Jack and the regulars, Mary Liv­ingstone, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Bob Crosby, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Sportsmen, Mel Blanc, Joe Kearns. Jack and Bob go out on a picnic with the CBS telephone operators Gertrude and Mable (Bea Benadaret and Shirley Mitchell). Lucky Strike, CBS. (26:30)