Jacobs, Seaman, 439
Japan, 448
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 364, 387, 414
Pearl Harbor attack and, 177, 181–82, 188
World War II and, 188–89, 194, 209–10, 213–14
Jazz Singer, The, 59
Jeffries, Fran, 413
Jennings, George “Whitey,” 41–42, 45–46
Jeopardy!, 481
John D. Rockefeller: The Cleveland Years (Goulder), 41
John Paul II, Pope, 465
Johnson, Don, 465
Johnson, Henry B., 96
Johnson, Lady Bird, 455
Johnson, Lynda Bird, 379
Johnson, Lyndon B., 350, 371, 379, 386
Vietnam War and, 365–66, 370, 377, 383, 391
Johnson, Margaret, 105
Jolie, Angelina, 16
Jolson, Al, 53, 59–60, 64, 125–26, 188, 243, 267, 274
Jones, Jack, 372–75
Jones, Paul, 232
Jones, Tom, 398
Jordan Ranch, 471–73
Jorgensen, Christine, 289
Joy, Leatrice, 71
Judd, for the Defense, 437
Jungle Princess, The, 151
Kanter, Hal, 11, 158, 331, 346, 437, 476
Kaplan, Peter, 451
Kate & Allie, 433
Kaufman, Samuel, 122
Kaye, Herbie, 151
Kaye, Stubby, 199
Kazan, Elia, 313
KC and the Sunshine Band, 445
Keaton, Diane, 450
Keeler, Ruby, 60–61
“Keep Smiling,” 68–69
Keith-Orpheum circuit, 69–72, 74, 77–80, 85
Keller, Casey, 462
Keller, Helen, 52
Kelly, Gene, 460
Kennedy, John F., 213, 334, 338–39, 341, 365, 383, 430
Kennedy, Robert F., 8, 386, 388
Kennedy, Ted, 338
Kent State shootings, 400
Kerr, Jean, 312
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 467
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 192
King, Alan, 95
King, Larry, 483
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 371, 386–87
King, Peggy, 307
King of Hearts, The, 312
Kirby, Edward M., 402
Kissinger, Henry, 445, 447, 455
Kitty Foyle, 167
Klein, Dennis, 441
Knight, Ray, 111
Koch, Howard, 430–31
Kodak, 387
Koehler, Ted, 102
Korea, Korean War, 6, 272–76, 283, 305, 317, 326, 339, 359, 364, 366, 387–88, 414
Kovacs, Ernie, 460
Kovic, Ron, 396–97
Kozak, Elliott, 13, 90, 160, 444, 446–47
Hope’s television career and, 432–33, 446, 459, 466
Kraft Music Hall, The, 150, 205
Kraft Suspense Theater, 344
Krause, Edward “Moose,” 405
Kreisler, Fritz, 207
Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, 266
Ky, Nguyen Cao, 385
Kyser, Kay, 192
Lachman, Mort, 247, 317, 358, 431
firing of, 432–33
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 376, 380–81
Hope’s finances and, 346–47
Hope’s Moscow trip and, 319–22
Hope’s television career and, 268, 338, 343, 432–33
Laird, Melvin, 393
Lamarr, Hedy, 133, 182, 195, 282
Lamour, Dorothy, 120, 124, 182, 295, 443, 475
and Caught in the Draft, 171–72
Crosby’s disdain for, 242–43
Hope’s relationship with, 287–88
Hope’s television career and, 244, 287, 314
My Favorite Brunette and, 215, 234–35
Road pictures and, 151–52, 154–56, 167–68, 170, 193, 208, 224–25, 242–43, 284, 286–88, 442
L’Amour, Louis, 419–20
Lancaster, Burt, 219
Lande, Andrew (grandson), 436
Lande, Nathaniel Greenblatt (son-in-law), 388–89, 406, 426–27, 436, 473–74
Landis, Carole, 195
Lane, Burton, 126
Lanfield, Sidney, 186, 257, 276
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 330, 337
Hope’s radio career and, 174–75, 206, 219, 222, 238, 245–46
World War II and, 189–91, 195–96, 199, 201–4, 209–12, 219, 486
Langdon, Harry, 100
Larkin, Bill, 317, 319, 321, 343
Larry Sanders Show, The, 441
Lasker, Albert, 123–24
Lassally, Peter, 464
Lassie, 291
Last Christmas Show, The (Hope and Martin), 396, 410, 414
Las Vegas, Nev., 97, 206, 237, 339, 426
Laughing with the Presidents, 479
Laughton, Charles, 255
Lawrence, Joey, 476
Leary, Ted, 65–66
Leave It to Beaver, 313
Lee, Charlie, 277, 343, 399, 432–35, 438
Lee, Peggy, 284
Leeds, Peter, 346
Leffler, Dolph, 70–71
Leisen, Mitchell, 108, 115–17, 147
Lemon Drop Kid, The, 271, 275–76, 281–82
“Let’s Begin,” 91
Let’s Face It, 196
Letterman, David, 445, 461, 476, 485
Lever Brothers, 238–39, 244, 255, 270
Levin, Ira, 352
Lewis, David, 25
Academy Awards and, 330–31
television career of, 284, 289, 312
Liberman, Frank, 11, 110, 242–43, 432–33, 467
Hope’s womanizing and, 276, 278–79, 353, 474
Liebman, Max, 267
“Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” 102
Lillie, Beatrice, 77, 267, 269, 299
Lindsay, Howard, 109
Lippman, Gordon J., 375
Lipton, James, 447, 449, 457, 463
Hope’s television career and, 444, 446, 469
Livingston, Dodie, 456
Livingston, Jay, 249, 281, 297
Lloyd, Abraham, 24
Lloyd, Harold, 171
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 367
Loews State Theatre, 99, 127–28, 130
Lollobrigida, Gina, 326–27
Lombard, Carole, 182
London Star, 280–81
Loren, Sophia, 326
Loring, Gloria, 403
Lorre, Peter, 235
Los Angeles, Calif., 72, 74, 92, 128, 134–36, 206, 231, 240, 265, 294, 323, 329, 353, 384, 427, 438, 457, 461, 483
Hope’s movie career and, 79, 151, 156, 235
Hope’s newspaper columns and, 227–28
Hope’s radio career and, 134, 143, 271
Hope’s real estate hoarding and, 471–72
Hope’s television career and, 244, 449
World War II and, 181, 184–85, 192
Los Angeles Daily News, 119, 266
Los Angeles Times, 12, 141, 149, 322, 382, 434, 479, 481
Hope’s movie career and, 177, 187, 215, 234
Hope’s real estate hoarding and, 472–73
Louis, Joe, 192
Louisiana Purchase, 176
“Love in Bloom,” 116
Lubitsch, Ernst, 120
Luce, Clare Boothe, 148
Luciano, Lucky, 102
Luckman, Charles, 124, 238–39, 243, 255, 270
Lucky Strike, 123–24
Ludwin, Rick, 454, 469, 476, 478–79
Lukas, Paul, 163
Lunt, Alfred, 220
Lynne, Joy, 99
MacArthur, Douglas, 272–74, 288
McAvity, Tom, 136–37
McCain, John, 409
McCarthy, Joseph, 288–89
McCullagh, Alicia (granddaughter), 474
McCullagh, Sam (son-in-law), 10, 392–93, 406, 474
McDaniel, Hattie, 149
McGovern, George, 400
McIntire, Andy, 278
MacLaine, Shirley, 401, 429–31
McLeod, Norman Z., 241, 249, 297
McMahon, Ed, 464
MacMurray, Fred, 91, 151, 291, 444–45
McNair, Barbara, 384
McNulty, Barney, 290, 342, 366, 370, 381, 469, 476
McQueen, Steve, 329
Madonna, 16
Mahony, Roger Cardinal, 483
Mako, Laura, 451
Male Animal, The, 172
Malatesta, Mildred De Fina (sister-in-law), 93, 143, 230, 349
Malatesta, Peter (nephew), 444–45
Malatesta, Tom (nephew), 160, 230, 302, 349
Malik, Jacob, 318–19
“Mama, That Moon Is Here Again,” 124
Mamoulian, Rouben, 120
Mansfield, Jayne, 317, 329–30, 337
Mantle, Mickey, 307
Margaret, Princess of Great Britain, 309
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 364, 381, 457–58
Korean War and, 273–74
Vietnam War and, 364, 381, 408
World War II and, 174, 183, 206, 210–11
Marks, Larry, 247
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, 433
Marshall, George C., 240
Marshe, Vera, 85
Martin, Dean, 271, 398–99, 423
movie career of, 284, 286, 312
television career of, 283–84, 289, 312, 371–72, 393, 439
Marx, Arthur, 94, 96, 420, 473–74
Marx, Groucho, 9, 156, 184, 234, 237, 464, 484
Marx Brothers, 5, 53, 74, 79, 120, 241, 484
Masterpiece of Murder, A, 465
Mather, Samuel, 35
Mathers, Jerry, 313
Maxwell, Marilyn, 265, 272, 274
Hope’s movie career and, 271, 281, 296
Hope’s relationship with, 276, 278–79
May, Elaine, 335
May, Joe, 97
MCA, 348
Meese, Ed, 456
Menuhin, Yehudi, 144
Meredith, Burgess, 200
Merkel, Una, 170
Merv Griffin Show, 413
Miami, Fla., 2, 94, 156, 172–73, 207, 252, 389, 459–60
Michel, Robert, 445
Middleton, Ray, 90–91
Midnight Cowboy, 401
Mikoyan, Anastas, 325
Miles, Tichi Wilkerson, 399
Miles, Vera, 316
Milland, Ray, 302
Million Dollar Legs, 120
Minnelli, Vincente, 107
Mischer, Don, 475
Mitchell, Don, 401
Mitchell, John, 393
Mitchell, Margaret, 148
Mitchell, Martha, 393
Moiseyev Dance Company, 323
Moncrief, Will, 254
Money from Home, 120
Monsieur Beaucaire, 5, 223, 227, 232–34, 249–50, 276, 297, 448, 450
“Moonlight Becomes You,” 193
Moore, Archie, 308
Morgan, J. P., Jr., 141
Morgenthau, Henry, 141
Morrow, Bill, 158
Morrow, Onnie, 342
Mortal Storm, The, 164
Moscow, 288, 304–5, 318–23, 325, 355, 447, 450
“Mother Had Hopes” (Jim Hope), 27, 36, 39, 75–76
Motion Picture Herald, 279
movies, 46, 59, 74, 91–92, 231, 263–66
Crosby’s career in, 5, 14, 81, 88, 100, 115–16, 120–21, 150–58, 167–71, 177, 187, 193–94, 208, 218, 224–25, 235, 241–43, 270, 284–88, 352, 355, 419, 421–22, 442
Hope’s career in, 4–6, 14–15, 79–83, 100–102, 105, 107–8, 111–12, 116–28, 130, 135–40, 145–58, 161–64, 167–73, 175–77, 185–89, 192–97, 200, 207–8, 210, 214–15, 218–19, 221, 223–27, 232–36, 241–43, 247, 249–50, 253–60, 263, 269–72, 275–76, 279–88, 290, 293, 295–98, 300–302, 304–5, 307, 310, 312–19, 324, 328–29, 332–34, 341–42, 351–55, 371, 378–79, 399–400, 407, 409, 419–22, 426–28, 431, 436, 442, 448, 450, 472, 476, 484, 533–35
Hope’s Moscow trip and, 304–5, 319
Hope’s radio career and, 124, 173, 186
Hope’s son and, 437–38
Hope’s womanizing and, 253–54
shorts and, 100–102
television and, 254, 266, 269, 283–84, 290–91, 293–94, 301, 314, 334, 351, 355
vaudeville and, 79, 81, 120, 186, 284
World War II and, 5, 147, 164, 166, 171, 181–82, 185–88, 194–95, 215, 399
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 148, 176
Mrs. Miniver, 195
Muir, Florabel, 219
Muppet Movie, The, 421
Murdock, Toots, 76–77
Murphy, George, 91–93, 100, 378
Murray, Ken, 78
Muskie, Edmund, 400
Myers, Richard, 483
“My Blue Heaven,” 88
My Favorite Blonde, 136, 185–88, 207, 235
My Favorite Brunette, 215, 234–36, 249, 282, 450
My Favorite Spy, 282
My Man Godfrey, 156
“My Mom,” 87
Nabors, Jim, 409
Nagel, Conrad, 293
National Unity Week, 391–92
Navy, US, 2, 222, 325, 426, 446, 465
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 336–38, 368, 373–74, 385, 388, 393, 467
Vietnam War and, 408–9
World War II and, 174, 183–84, 192, 206, 210
NBC, 86, 92, 244–45, 356, 413, 425, 436, 469
censorship issues and, 216, 237, 403–4
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 317–18, 330, 364, 369, 394, 397, 403–4, 414
Hope’s Moscow trip and, 318–19, 323
Hope’s movie career and, 310, 420–21
Hope’s ninetieth birthday and, 475–76
Hope’s radio career and, 4, 7, 103, 111, 121–22, 129, 131, 136, 165, 189, 213, 216, 219, 223, 237, 239, 255, 271, 291–93, 295
Hope’s seventy-fifth birthday and, 444–45
Hope’s stage shows and, 264–65
Hope’s television career and, 5, 14, 255, 267–69, 271, 283, 288–90, 293, 298–300, 305, 309–10, 314, 317–18, 323–24, 328, 330–32, 338, 342, 354, 364, 369–70, 376, 394, 397, 403–4, 414, 426–27, 433–34, 454–55, 463, 465, 470, 475–78, 482, 484
Vietnam War and, 364, 369–70, 376, 392, 394
Nelson, Ozzie, 130
Nesbit, Evelyn, 52
Netland, Dwayne, 359
Never Say Die, 139, 145, 147, 151
New Times, 451
New York, 1, 12, 34, 41, 54, 65, 82, 96, 105, 122, 134–35, 139, 204, 220, 236, 240, 248, 252, 287–88, 293, 295, 297, 318, 323, 328, 332, 334–35, 346, 349, 373, 405, 408, 427, 442, 450, 476, 480
Hope’s benefit appearances and, 111, 215, 463
and Hope’s courtship of wife, 94–95
Hope’s father’s emigration and, 31–32
Hope’s movie career and, 101, 111–12, 119–20, 156–57, 172, 187–88, 196, 281–82, 313–14, 316, 352–53, 419–21
Hope’s radio career and, 89, 111, 121, 129–30
Hope’s residence in, 83, 98, 106, 108, 110, 143
Hope’s stage shows and, 4, 140–41, 159, 264–65, 275, 284, 313–14
Hope’s television career and, 267–68, 271, 446
Louis Shurr and, 99–100
vaudeville and, 52, 58–59, 62, 64, 67–68, 70–72, 74, 76–78, 85, 87–89, 104, 127–28
see also Broadway theater
New York Daily Mirror, 119, 219
New York Herald Tribune, 85, 95, 103, 126, 200, 250, 254, 264
New York Radio Guide, 104
New York Times, 11, 91, 141, 206, 238, 259, 306, 387, 480, 484
Hope’s Broadway career and, 108, 110–11
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 365, 404
Hope’s movie career and, 125, 138, 234, 315, 371
Vietnam War and, 378, 402, 404
Nicholls, Andrew, 464–65
Nichols, Iva D., 340
Nichols, Mike, 335
Niesen, Gertrude, 107
Night at the Opera, A, 242
Ninotchka, 148
Honor America Day and, 400–401
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 393–95, 415
Hope’s relationship with, 3, 389–91, 408, 411–13, 415, 422–23, 428–29, 456
presidential campaign of, 408, 411, 413
Vietnam War and, 3, 390–91, 393–95, 400, 404, 409, 411–16, 422
No Applause—Just Throw Money (Trav), 68
North Africa, 326–28
World War II and, 194–96, 200–205, 213, 236
Nothing But the Truth, 172–73, 175, 188
Novena Notes, 216–17
Now and Then, 480
Nugent, Elliott, 145, 172, 235
Oberon, Merle, 184
O’Brien, Margaret, 218
O’Connor, Donald, 290
O’Donnell, Bob, 69–70
O’Donnell, Emmett “Rosie,” 273, 382
O’Dowd, John, 253
O’Dwyer, William, 268
Off Limits, 296
O’Hara, Maureen, 325
Oistrakh, David, 321
Oklahoma!, 196
Old Grey Mayor, The, 102
“Old Friend,” 480
“Ol’ Man River,” 88
Olson, Culbert, 184
Olson, George, 94
“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” 393
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 344
100 Years of Hope Humor, 482
Onion, The, 3
On the Beach, 331
On the Road to Vietnam, 370
On the Road with Bing, 443
O’Reilly, Tom, 206
Original Amateur Hour, 86
O’Shaughnessy and Leibowitz, 427
O’Shay, Kathleen, 54
Osmond, Marie, 467
Oswald, Gerd, 317
Outlaw, The, 249
Ozzie and Harriet, 271
“Pagan Love Song,” 73
Paige, Janis, 291, 336–38, 348, 366, 368
Palace Theatre (Chicago), 65, 75, 87
Palace Theatre (Cleveland), 75–76
vaudeville at, 62, 67–68, 77–78, 80, 90
Paleface, The, 5, 236, 243, 249–50, 258, 272
Paley, William, 254–55
Palladium Theatre, 279–80, 288–89, 298, 339, 442, 446
Palmer, Arnold, 353, 356, 358–59
Palmer, Lilli, 279
Palm Springs, Calif., 247, 263, 299, 310, 359, 428–29, 450, 458, 466–67, 477, 480
Hope’s golf tournament in, 15, 356–57
Hope’s residences in, 13, 236, 328, 365, 378, 392, 424–25, 451–52, 481–82
Hope’s movie career and, 136, 186, 207, 224–26, 232, 285–86, 313, 332–34
Paramount Pictures, 93–94, 115–16, 220, 264, 278, 280, 298, 437
Hope’s disputes with, 214–15, 218–19, 234
Hope’s movie career and, 14, 100, 112, 116, 119–20, 123, 126–28, 139, 150–53, 156, 161–62, 171, 176, 186, 189, 192–93, 195–96, 214–15, 218–19, 223–26, 232, 234–35, 241, 249, 255–56, 258, 271, 275–76, 283–84, 295, 300–301, 355
Hope’s television career and, 244, 283
World War II and, 183–84
Paramount Theater:
Hope’s movie career and, 172, 188
Hope’s stage shows and, 140–41, 264–65, 275, 284, 313–14
Paree, Paree, 101
Parent Trap, The, 419
Paris Holiday, 316–19, 324, 332
Parker, Frank, 104–5
Parsons, Louella, 236, 276, 301, 328
Pasetta, Marty, 443–44
Paulin, J. Dennis, 481–82
Payton, Barbara, 253–54, 303, 353
Peaches and Herb, 447
Pearl Harbor, 177, 181–83, 186, 188, 210
Peck, Gregory, 386
Peers, Donald, 281
Peleliu assault, 210–11
Pepper, Jack, 196, 201, 203, 219, 226, 348
Pepsodent Show, The, 129–37, 141, 143–45, 158, 164–66, 173–75, 187, 191–92, 194–95, 206–7, 213, 215–17, 219, 222–23, 226, 235, 237–41, 243–48, 255, 259, 293, 343
Perlberg, Bill, 79
Perón, Juan, 308
Perret, Gene, 438–40, 461, 467–68, 470
Persian Gulf, 467–68
Pettis, Jack, 94
Philadelphia, Pa., 61, 91, 108, 184, 217, 413
Philadelphia Story, The, 167
Philip, Prince of Great Britain, 339, 391, 434–35
Philippines, 188, 275, 364, 366, 381
Pischel, Dohrmann, 365
Picton, Percy, 27
Pilot, 215–16
Playboy, 423
Play It Again, Sam, 462
Pointer Sisters, 467
Poland, 141–42
Poor Richard Club, 217
Popov, Oleg, 321
Porter, Cole, 4, 83, 101, 108–10, 196
Potomac Investments, 471–73
Potter, Dan M., 405
Powell, Colin, 468
Price, Roger, 219
Price, Vincent, 297
Pride, Charley, 409
Prince of Wales Theatre, 8, 279–80
Princess and the Pirate, The, 208, 215
Prinze, Freddie, 433
Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell, The, 399
Proctor’s, 70–71
Pryor, Richard, 3
Pulver, Lilo, 354
“Put It There, Pal,” 224
Pyle, Ernie, 203
Queen Mary, 141–43, 219, 239, 279
Quinn, Anthony, 154
Academy Awards and, 149–50, 218
censorship issues and, 136–37, 165–66, 189, 216–17, 236–37
Hope’s career in, 4, 6–8, 10, 15–16, 23, 63, 80–81, 85–87, 89, 99, 102–6, 111, 121–24, 128–37, 140, 143–45, 150–51, 156, 158–60, 164–66, 173–75, 177, 182–89, 191–92, 194–97, 199, 204–9, 213–17, 219, 221–23, 226–27, 235–41, 243–48, 251–55, 259, 265–66, 269–71, 274–75, 279, 283–84, 289–93, 295, 297, 328, 330, 342–43, 431, 485, 535
Hope’s movie career and, 121, 156, 235
monologue emphasis in, 122–23
television and, 244, 255, 266, 269, 283, 289–90, 292
World War II and, 173–75, 177, 181–85, 188–89, 194–95, 199, 204–9, 213, 219, 222–23, 227, 238–39, 274
writers in, 8, 63, 105, 123, 129–30, 132–37, 144–45, 152, 158, 174, 177, 186, 197, 205–6, 245–49, 259, 343
Radio City Music Hall, 80, 251, 419, 421
“Radio’s Seven Deadly Sins” (John Crosby), 275
Radio Stars, 106
Rainger, Ralph, 116
Rapp, Johnny, 343
Rathbone, Basil, 297
Ray, Leah, 100
Ray, Ted, 281
Raye, Martha, 120, 124, 126–27, 138–39, 188, 195, 308, 350, 374, 455
Reagan, Ronald, 7, 294, 389, 411, 438, 455–57, 460, 466–67
Red, Hot and Blue, 109–11, 480
Redgrave, Vanessa, 443
Reed, Ted, 115
Reese, Algernon, 328
Reilly, Alvin E., 363
Reilly, Dorothy, 363–64
Reiner, Carl, 268
Remarque, Erich Maria, 142
“Reunited,” 447
Rhodes, Jean, 307
Rhythm Romance, 139
Richard Boone Show, The, 344
Richman, Harry, 102–3
Rickey, Carrie, 288
Riesner, Dean, 316
Rinker, Al, 88
Rio, Eddie, 226
Rippling Rhythm Revue, The, 111, 121–22
RKO Theater of the Air, 86
Road pictures, 5, 81, 150–58, 186, 210, 241–43, 270, 284–88, 409, 421, 450
The Road to Hong Kong, 285–87, 352, 355
Road to Morocco, 171, 193–94, 200, 450
Road to Singapore, 151–58, 162, 167–70
Road to the Fountain of Youth, 287, 442
Road to the Moon, 285
Road to Tomorrow, 287
Road to Utopia, 207–8, 215, 224–26, 241–42
Road to Hollywood, The, 314, 443
Robards, Jason, 344
Roberta, 90–93, 95–96, 98–100, 102, 127, 196, 268, 324, 342, 378, 398
Roberti, Lyda, 90
Robertson, Frank, 213
Rockwell, Norman, 42, 296, 434
Rodgers and Hammerstein, 196
Rodgers and Hart, 60
Roffe, Edward, 409
Rogers, Will, 7, 53, 123–24, 234, 241, 338–39
Rogers, William, 383
Romano, Tony, 189, 196, 201, 209, 212, 219, 330, 486
Romanoff, Michael, 102
Rooney, Mickey, 149, 188, 195, 220, 296, 483
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 132, 184, 198, 201, 207, 268
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 82, 136, 165–66, 207, 219
World War II and, 166, 177, 214
Root, Johnny, 46
Roots, 6
Rose, Jack, 235, 250, 256, 300, 316
Rosenzweig, Barney, 437–38
Rosequist, Mildred, 47–48, 74, 98
Ross, Shirley, 116–19, 125–27, 137–39, 476
Rosten, Leo, 9
Royal, John, 267
Royal Albert Hall, 219–20, 403
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 393
Ruggles of Red Gap, 255
Runyon, Damon, 120, 125–26, 235, 256–57, 271, 281
Russell, Jane, 272
Hope’s movie career and, 249–50, 282, 314
Hope’s stage shows and, 264–65
Russell, Lillian, 53
Ryan, Irene, 245
Saint, John D., Jr., 202–3
St. Denis, Ruth, 265
St. John, Jill, 366, 368, 375, 396, 409, 445
Salk, Jonas, 435
Sanders, George, 312–13
San Diego, Calif., 2, 72, 79, 97, 150, 174, 183
Sanford and Son, 413
San Francisco, Calif., 49, 143, 158, 224, 283, 334–35, 365, 442
Hope’s radio career and, 222–23
World War II and, 184, 189, 210
Saphier, Jimmy, 311, 348, 431–32, 439
Hope’s radio career and, 122–24, 129, 292
Hope’s television career and, 298, 324, 332, 338, 399, 411
Sarnoff, Tom, 310
Saturday Evening Post, 91, 296, 324, 454
Saunders, Mary Jane, 256–58
Sax, Sam, 101
Say When, 102–3
Schertzinger, Victor, 151–53, 167, 193
Schickel, Richard, 17
Schildkraut, Joseph, 233
Schneider, Romy, 393
Schulberg, Budd, 344
Schwartz, Al, 130
Schwartz, Sherwood, 130, 132, 134–37, 157, 174
Schwarzkopf, Norman, 468
Scott, John L., 234
Scourby, Alexander, 338
SCTV, 462
Secret Life of Bob Hope, The (Marx), 94, 473–74
Selleck, Tom, 483
Selznick, David O., 148–49, 166
Serling, Rod, 344
Setzer, Marvin, 190–91
Sesame Street, 447
Sevareid, Eric, 460
Seven Little Foys, The, 300–302, 312–13, 316, 334
Shales, Tom, 444
Shavelson, Melville, 467
Hope’s movie career and, 135, 256, 287, 300, 316, 407, 442
Hope’s radio career and, 130, 134–35, 145
Shearer, Norma, 141
Shields, Brooke, 457–58, 462, 469–70, 483
Shop Talk, 102
Showbiz Today, 480
Show Boat, 60
Shubert, J. J., 107–8
Shurr, Louis “Doc,” 226, 229, 276, 311, 348, 431
Broadway and, 99–100, 109, 122
Hope’s movie career and, 100–101, 111–12, 119, 122, 127, 161–62
Hope’s radio career and, 99, 104, 122
Shute, Nevil, 331
Sicily, 201–5
Sidewalks of New York, 60–61, 65–66, 80
“Silent Night,” 369, 388, 395, 458
Siller, Ray, 414–15
Silverman, Fred, 455
Silvers, Phil, 308
Sinatra, Frank, Jr., 339
Sinatra, Frank, Sr., 17, 237, 278–79, 286, 323, 411, 422, 446
Academy Awards and, 429–31
Hope’s television career and, 270, 324
Sisk, Fred, 351
Sitting Pretty, 100
Six Degrees of Separation, 349
Six Hits and a Miss, 130
Six of a Kind, 120
radio career of, 237, 239, 255
television career of, 5–6, 312, 330, 343
Skirball, Jack, 101
Skolsky, Sidney, 166
Sledge, Eugene B., 210–11
Smiles, 80
Smiling Eyes, 56–57
Smith, Al, 60
Smith, Alexis, 316
Smith, Cecil, 322
Smith, Don, 372
Smith, Kenneth D., 401–2
Smith, Walter Bedell, 252
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” 91–92
Smothers Brothers, 408
Snyder, Robert, 64
Sojack’s Dance Academy, 46–48
Solomon and Sheba, 326
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 344
Somers, Bruce (son-in-law), 474–75
Somers, Suzanne, 474
Sommer, Elke, 378
Son of Paleface, 282–83
So This Is Peace (Hope), 227
Sotzing, Jeff, 464
Sound of Music, The, 447
Southern Methodist University, 92, 355, 398, 406–7
Soviet Union, 194, 240, 272, 288, 290, 325, 331, 336, 338, 354, 412, 450
cultural exchanges between US and, 319, 323, 447
Hope’s Berlin show and, 251–52
Hope’s movie career and, 304–5, 314–15
Spain, 106, 287, 326–28, 409, 442
Sparks, Randy, 326
Spellman, Frances Cardinal, 373
Spencer, Stu, 457
Spies Like Us, 421
Spotlight Revue, 231
Sputnik, 320–21
Stagecoach, 148
stand-up comedy, 3–4, 6–7, 69, 123, 334–35, 424, 461, 476, 484
Stanwick, Barbara, 62
Starlighters, 238
Star-Spangled Revue, The, 268–70
Star Spangled Rhythm, 195
Star Wars, 6
State Lake Theater, 140
Steinbeck, John, 200
Stengel, Casey, 356
Sterling, Robert, 354
Sternberg, Josef von, 120
Stevens, Connie, 393, 395–96, 401, 467
Stewart, Blanche, 144
Stewart, D. Travis, 68
Stewart, James, 163, 167, 176, 182, 279, 330, 468
Stockdale, Mrs. James B., 408–9
Stone, Butch, 367
Stone, Dorothy, 101
Stone, Lewis, 195
“Stormy Weather,” 102
Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The, 149
Strathearn, Hugh, 217
Strauss, Robert, 306
Stump, Bob, 481
Sullivan, Norman, 130, 259, 343, 432
Sunshine Boys, The, 60, 421–22
Sutherland, Donald, 404
Swift, David, 419
Symington, Stuart, 250–51, 258–59, 295, 377, 393, 407
Sydney, Ann, 366
Tailor Maids, 272
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” 372
Talbot, Ken, 319–21
Talbott, Harold, 305
Taliaferro, Walt, 266
Tarkington, Booth, 232
Tashlin, Frank, 232–33, 250, 276, 281–82, 399
Taylor, Maxwell, 367
“Teamwork,” 286–87
television, 8, 292, 304–14, 333, 341, 474
Academy Awards and, 293–95, 330–31, 443–44
fund-raisers on, 283–84
Hope’s career in, 3–6, 14–15, 49, 81, 95, 128, 243–44, 255, 265, 267–71, 274, 279, 282–84, 286–91, 293–301, 304–12, 314, 316–26, 328, 330–32, 334–35, 338–40, 342–48, 351, 354–55, 363–64, 369–70, 374–77, 380–82, 385–86, 392, 394–99, 403–4, 410–11, 413–15, 423–24, 426–28, 431–36, 439–49, 454–55, 457–59, 461, 463–66, 468–70, 472, 475–79, 482, 484, 536
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 317–18, 326, 330, 394–97, 403–4, 414–15, 458
Hope’s golf tournament and, 356–57
Hope’s Moscow trip and, 304–5, 318–23
Hope’s seventy-fifth birthday and, 444–45
movies and, 254, 266, 269, 283–84, 290–91, 293–94, 301, 314, 334, 351, 355
production costs in, 343–44
specials on, 3, 5–6, 14–16, 49, 243, 267–71, 282, 286–87, 289, 298–300, 305, 307, 309–10, 313, 317–24, 326, 328, 332, 338, 340, 344, 346–47, 355, 364, 369–70, 374–77, 380–82, 385–86, 392, 394, 397–99, 403–4, 410–11, 414–15, 423–24, 426, 432–36, 439–41, 443–50, 454–55, 457–58, 463–66, 468–69, 472, 475–79, 482
Vietnam War and, 364, 369–70, 374–77, 380–82, 385–86, 391, 394–97, 403–4, 410–11, 413–15, 434, 458
Temple, Shirley, 171, 256, 258
Templeton, Dick, 106
Templeton, Fay, 90
Ten Commandments, The, 308–9
Terry, Ellen, 27
Thailand, 188, 366, 372, 380–81, 385, 388, 393–94, 409–10, 414
Thanks for the Memory (movie), 127, 137–39
“Thanks for the Memory” (song), 2, 5, 108, 115–19, 125–28, 131–32, 137–38, 142, 212, 282, 380, 422, 442, 445, 463, 469, 476
That Certain Feeling, 312–14
Thaw, Harry K., 52
“There’s No Business Like Show Business,” 330
They Got Me Covered (Hope), 15, 175
They Got Me Covered (movie), 189, 195
39 Steps, The, 186
Thomas, Patty, 305
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 259, 330, 337
Thomas, Ralph, 315
Thompson, Edgar A., 123
Thompson, Llewellyn, 320
Three Stooges, 250
Thule Air Base, 305–6
Thurber, James, 172
Ticonderoga, USS, 373–74
Time, 110–11, 176, 227, 345, 387, 401, 484
Hope’s movie career and, 171, 258
Times of London, 10
Toluca Lake, Calif., 263
Hope’s residences in, 8, 13, 128, 157, 161, 228–30, 242, 246, 278, 300, 345, 347, 349, 376, 389, 392–93, 411, 424, 439, 446, 472, 481–82
Tonight Show, 310, 433–34, 436, 441–42, 446, 463–65, 470, 475
Towering Inferno, The, 429
Towns, Jack (uncle), 24
Towns, John (grandfather), 24
Towns, Sarah (grandmother), 24
Townsend, Peter, 309
Trammell, Niles, 237
Tranh, Nguyen Van, 409
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, 112
Treacher, Arthur, 279
Troxell, Grace Louise (first wife):
divorce of, 95–96
Hope’s partnership with, 68, 70–74, 79, 94–95, 97
True Grit, 401
Truman, Harry, 219, 240, 245–46, 251, 264, 274, 288, 435
Truska, Avis (niece), 424
Tucker, Sophie, 53
Tugend, Harry, 171
Turner, Ted, 465
Turrell, Harry, 66
Tush, Bill, 480–81
Twelve O’Clock High, 258
Twentieth Century-Fox, 305, 323, 384, 437
“Two Sleepy People,” 138
Tyre, Norman, 311
Ulanova, Galina, 321
Umqualia the Spanish Queen, 63
Unger, Leonard, 409
United Artists, 285–86, 316, 319
United Provision Company, 76, 231
United Service Organizations (USO), 6, 188, 194–97, 199–200, 210, 214, 226, 326, 374, 376–77, 382, 402, 413, 444, 451, 456, 458, 460
Universal, 127, 253, 310, 344, 349, 376, 388
Valentino, Rudolph, 232
Van Heusen, Jimmy, 167–68, 193, 224, 286
Variety, 139, 141, 159, 295, 339, 440, 482
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 259, 388, 404
Hope’s movie career and, 164, 176, 282, 297–98, 301, 314, 355, 421
Hope’s radio career and, 104, 124, 132, 145, 238, 292
Hope’s television career and, 299, 308, 314, 330, 342, 355, 466, 479
vaudeville and, 53, 59, 68, 71–73, 75, 79, 87, 89, 99
Variety Clubs International, 390
“Varsity Drag,” 102
vaudeville, 196, 251, 300, 307, 365, 388, 421
“Antics” shows and, 75–77
Cleveland and, 46, 49–51, 57, 59, 64–65, 70, 74–76
Crosby’s career in, 88–89, 150
emceeing in, 54, 61–63, 65–66, 78, 84, 88
ethnic stereotypes in, 52–53, 61
Hope’s Broadway career and, 80, 84–85, 102, 111
Hope’s brothers and, 231–32
Hope’s career in, 3–4, 6–7, 12–13, 17, 49–81, 84–90, 94–95, 98–99, 104–5, 111, 120, 122–23, 127–28, 130, 150, 153, 231–32, 264–65, 267–68, 272, 299, 311, 315, 335, 339–40, 343, 348, 351, 426
Hope’s movie career and, 79, 81, 120, 186, 284
and Hope’s partnership with Byrne, 55–61, 63–64, 69
and Hope’s partnership with Durbin, 49–50, 51, 53–55
and Hope’s partnership with first wife, 68, 70–74, 79, 94–95
and Hope’s partnership with second wife, 98–99
Hope’s personal appearances and, 226–27, 279–80
“Keep Smiling” and, 68–69
Keith-Orpheum circuit in, 69–72, 74, 77–80, 85
Veeck, Bill, 228
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 2–3, 15, 221, 272–73, 338, 359, 390–97, 426, 434, 444, 450
Academy Awards and, 430–31
as beautiful thing, 405–6
casualties in, 367, 375, 394, 396, 405, 407, 412, 431
and demonization of Hope, 407–8, 411
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 6, 364–88, 393–97, 401–4, 408, 410–11, 413–15, 457–58
Hope’s politics and, 368, 375, 377–79, 381–83, 391–92, 394, 402, 404–5, 413, 429, 435
increased bombing of north in, 411–14
Nixon and, 3, 390–91, 393–95, 400, 404, 409, 411–16, 422
opposition to, 3, 368, 370–72, 375, 377–79, 381, 385–86, 388, 391–93, 395, 400, 404, 407–8, 430, 435
peace talks in, 387, 409–10, 413–15, 422, 430
prisoners in, 395–96, 407–10, 413, 415–16
and withdrawal of US troops, 391, 410, 413, 430
Village People, 446
Vinger, Sandy, 474
Vogue Club, 92–94
Voice of the City (Snyder), 64
Vonnegut, Kurt, 450
Walkabout, 437
Walker, Marshall, 61
Walrath, Florence, 143
Walsh, Howard “Happy,” 45–46
Walt, Lew, 381
Warhol, Andy, 450
Waring, Fred, 207
Warner, Harry, 142
Warner, Jack, 378
Warner, John, 444
Warner Vitaphone, 101–2
Washington, DC, 184, 195, 304, 319, 341, 377, 379, 422, 438, 457, 477
Honor America Day in, 400–401
Hope honored in, 2, 460, 481–82
Hope’s benefit appearances and, 219, 375
Hope’s seventy-fifth birthday and, 444–45, 460
state dinners in, 434–35
White House Correspondents’ Association dinners and, 207, 264, 295
Washington Post, 402, 428, 444
Watch the Birdie, 102
Watergate scandal, 423, 428–29, 434
Wayne, John, 229, 279, 401, 422, 435
Wayne, Josie, 229
Webb, Harry, 73
Welch, Raquel, 380, 384–85, 483
Welch, Robert, 227
Welk, Lawrence, 356
Welles, Orson, 218
Wellman, Manly Wade, 437
West, Mae, 120
Westerner, The, 162
Westmore, Wally, 119
Westmoreland, William C., 368, 372, 379, 382, 385, 393
What’s My Line?, 329
Whedon, Glenn, 206
“When the Moon Comes over the Mountain,” 189
“Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day,” 88
Where There’s Life, 235
White, Stanford, 52
White House Correspondents’ Association dinners, 207, 264, 295
White House tapes, 412, 428–29
White Oak Ranch, 232
Whiting, Jack, 127
Whiting, Margaret, 271, 292–93, 305–6
Whitney, Dwight, 351
Whitney, Jock, 318
Who Fears the Devil?, 437–38
Wiere Brothers, 241
Wilder, Patricia “Honey Chile,” 104–6, 236
Hope’s movie career and, 105, 125, 137
Willard, John, 139
William Morris Agency, 58, 61, 188
Hope’s Christmas tours and, 336–38
“Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?,” 316
Wilson, Earl, 384
Wilson, Pete, 473
Hope’s Broadway career and, 103, 108, 421
Hope’s movie career and, 101, 121, 162–63, 421, 436
Hope’s radio career and, 103–4
Winfrey, Oprah, 16
Wings, 294
Winter Garden Theater, 107–8
Winters, Shelley, 450
With the Old Breed (Sledge), 210–11
Wizard of Oz, The, 133, 144, 148
Women, The, 148
Wood, Natalie, 355
Woods, Rose Mary, 428
Woodstock, 398
Hope brothers in, 43–44
World War II, 2–6, 9, 135, 141–42, 166–67, 181–92, 228, 234, 241, 244–45, 258–59, 275, 295, 305, 343
comparisons between Vietnam and, 375, 381–82
end of, 219–20, 222–23, 226, 232, 272
entertaining troops in, 2–3, 6, 15–16, 18, 182–83, 185, 188–92, 194–221, 227, 236, 250, 273, 330, 334, 341, 485–86
fiftieth anniversary of VE Day in, 478
Hope’s newspaper columns and, 217–18, 220
Hope’s souvenirs from, 214, 221
movies and, 5, 147, 164, 166, 171, 181–82, 185–88, 194–95, 215, 399
Pearl Harbor attack and, 177, 181–83, 186, 188
radio and, 173–75, 177, 181–85, 188–89, 194–95, 199, 204–9, 213, 219, 222–23, 227, 238–39, 274
raising money and, 167, 182–84, 192, 206, 208, 213–15, 217, 219, 223, 358
Wuthering Heights, 148
Wyler, William, 182
Wynn, Keenan, 420
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 300
Yates, Charlie, 299
“Yesterdays,” 90
Ying Ruocheng, 448
You Bet Your Life, 237
“You Don’t Have to Know the Language,” 241
“You Do Something to Me,” 101
Young, Loretta, 127
Young, Roland, 258
Young, Whitney, 405
Young Widow, 149
Your Hollywood Parade, 123–24, 130
“You Do Something to Me,” 101
You’ll Never Get Rich, 308
“You’ve Got Something,” 110
“You’ve Got That Thing,” 101
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 80, 82–83, 93, 107
Ziegfeld Follies, 60
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, 107–8, 447
Zoppi, Tony, 340