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Bob Hope Theaters,
355
,
398
,
459

Bob’s Leading Ladies,
287

Boehm, Sidney,
436

Bogart, Humphrey,
285
,
308
,
462

Bogart, Paul,
420
–21

Bohemia,
49

Bolger, Ray,
308

Bolshoi Ballet,
320
,
323

Bolton, Martha,
439

Bonnie and Clyde,
387

Boone, Pat,
401

Booth, Shirley,
293

Borden, Al,
342

Born on the Fourth of July,
396

Boston, Mass.,
10
,
79
,
107
,
159
,
184
,
215
–16,
252

Hope’s Broadway career and,
99
,
102
,
109

Bowes, Major Edward,
86
–87

Boxoffice,
217

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!,
378
–79

Boyer, Charles,
141

Boyle, Richard,
395

Boys Industrial School,
42
–43

Brackett, Charles,
294

Bradley, Omar,
295

Brady Bunch, The,
135

Brando, Marlon,
313
,
330
,
453

Brice, Fanny,
4
,
107
–8

Bride Wore Blinkers, The,
419
–20

Bringing Up Baby,
156

British Columbia,
302
,
329
,
341

Broadway theater,
62
,
79
,
172
,
176
,
236
,
254
,
264
,
279
,
293
,
297
,
312
,
337
,
352
,
444

Great Depression and,
82
–84

Hope’s career in,
4
,
23
,
60
–61,
66
,
80
,
83
–85,
88
,
90
–93,
95
–96,
98
–103,
106
–11,
119
–24,
126
–27,
151
,
196
,
268
,
342
,
378
,
398
,
421
,
447
,
476
,
480
,
535

Hope’s movie career and,
100
–102,
107
–8,
120
–21,
126
,
196

Hope’s radio career and,
123
–24

Hope’s vaudeville career and,
84
–85,
90

Broccoli, Albert “Cubby,”
353

Brooke, Eleanor,
312

Brooklyn, N.Y.,
70
–71,
100

Brown, Joe E.,
79
,
189

Brown, John Mason,
91

Brown, Les,
264
,
272
,
401
,
435

Hope’s Christmas tours and,
259
,
326
,
330
,
366
–68,
372
–73,
381

Hope’s radio career and,
238
,
245

Browning, Tod,
59

Bruce, Lenny,
3
,
335
,
484

Bruner, June,
219

Brush, Charles F.,
35

Bryant, Anita,
336
,
338
,
366
,
369
,
371
–72,
379
,
381

Buckner, Simon,
190

Buck Privates,
171

Bunker, Ellsworth,
385

Bunker, Wally,
136

Bureau of Sunday Censorship,
79

Burke, Billie,
107

Burke, Johnny,
152
,
167
–68,
193
,
224
,
229

Burke, Rory,
229
,
277
–78

Burns, George,
9
,
74
,
143
,
156
,
243
,
464

movie career of,
79
,
100
,
120
,
126
,
287

radio career of,
7
,
86
,
133
,
165
,
255

television career of,
398
,
445
,
455
,
475

Bush, George H. W.,
438
,
468
,
470
,
477

Bush, George W.,
482
–83

Bush, Prescott,
295

Butler, David,
171
,
193
–94

Butler, Frank,
151
–52,
167
,
186
,
193

Butterfield, James,
280

Buttons, Red,
483

“Buttons and Bows,”
249
,
273

Byrne, George:

Broadway career of,
60
–61

Hope’s partnership with,
55
–61,
63
–64,
69

Caesar, Sid,
267
,
279
,
289
,
312
,
323
–24,
483

café society,
83

Cagney, James,
184
,
218
,
300
–301

Cahn, Sammy,
286

Caine, Michael,
280

California Federal Savings,
466
,
474

Calling All Tars,
102

Call Me Bwana,
352
–53

Call Me Lucky
(Crosby and Martin),
296

Campbell, Glen,
401

Cambodia,
400
,
407

Canby, Vincent,
484

Cancel My Reservation,
419
–21

Cantor, Eddie,
79
,
162
,
167
,
239
,
243
,
279
,
289
,
425

Capitol Family Show,
86

Capitol Records,
227
,
249
,
271

Capitol Theatre,
85
,
87
–89,
104
,
122
,
150

Capone, Al,
73

Capra, Frank,
182

Capstaff, Al,
173

Captain China,
264

Caranchini, Silvio,
337
,
342
,
376

Carlin, George,
3

Carmichael, Hoagy,
138

Carol Burnett Show, The,
439

Carpetbaggers, The,
371

Carr, Justine (cousin),
349

Carr, Vikki,
422

Carroll, Carroll,
205

Carroll, Madeleine,
133
,
141
,
186
–87

Carroll, Sidney,
201

Carson, Johnny,
7
,
310
,
433
–34,
436
,
441
–42,
444
–45,
455
–56,
460
–61,
463
–65,
470
,
475
–76

Carter, Jack,
483

Carter, Jimmy,
435
,
444
,
447
,
450
,
455
–56

Carvel, Tom,
461

Casanova’s Big Night,
297
–98

Casper, Billy,
356

Cassidy, Hopalong,
266

Castle, Vernon and Irene,
48

Castro, Fidel,
336

Cat and the Canary, The,
5
,
139
,
145
–48,
150
,
158
,
162
–63,
172

Caulfield, Joan,
233

Caught in the Draft,
5
,
171
–73,
188
,
296

Cavett, Dick,
2
,
450
,
461

CBS,
237
,
269
,
455

Lucille Ball’s retirement and,
478
–79

radio and,
86
,
104
,
106
,
185
,
216
,
254
–55,
292

television and,
245
,
283
,
289
,
308

Cernadas, Alberto,
236

Chamberlain, Hazel,
54

Champion,
265

Chandler, Happy,
199

Chaney, Lon, Jr.,
235

Chapin, Dwight,
391
,
411

Chaplin, Charlie,
4
,
40
–41,
139
,
164
,
187
,
234

Charles, Ray,
398

Charo,
445

Chase, Mary,
62

Chesterfield,
270
,
283
,
291

Chevalier, Maurice,
120
,
220
,
298

Chevrolet,
305
,
308
,
324
,
330

Chicago, Ill.,
86
,
97
,
111
,
123
,
130
,
135
,
143
,
151
,
156
,
215
–17,
326
,
334
–35,
386
,
406
,
408
,
428

Hope’s stage shows and,
140
,
158
–59,
161

Hope’s vaudeville career and,
53
,
58
,
61
,
65
–66,
68
–69,
72
–73,
75
,
81
,
87
–88,
153

Chicago Tribune,
65
–66,
207

China, People’s Republic of,
275
,
447
–50

Chrysler,
356
,
432

Hope’s television career and,
344
–46,
397
–98

Churchill, Winston,
198
–99

Church of the Covenant,
38

Clark, Petula,
398

Clarkson, Geoffrey,
259
,
435

Clay, Lucius,
252

Cleopatra,
331
–32

Cleveland, Ohio,
2
,
4
,
13
,
55
,
90
,
96
,
98
,
140
,
215
,
226
,
228
,
231
,
245
,
276
,
302
,
311
,
328
,
392
,
424
,
432
,
457

economy of,
34
–35

Hope’s childhood in,
1
,
175

Hope family’s early life in,
36
–50,
57
,
76

Hope’s father’s emigration to,
30
–33

vaudeville and,
46
,
49
–51,
57
,
59
,
64
–65,
70
,
74
–76

Cleveland Indians,
228
,
311

Cleveland Plain Dealer,
47
,
49

Cleveland Press,
45
–46

Cliburn, Van,
422
,
467

Clinton, Bill,
467
,
475
,
477
–78,
481
,
483

Clooney, George,
16
,
485

Clooney, Rosemary,
290
–91,
297
,
398
,
427
,
443
,
480

Clubland,
280

CNN,
480

Coburn, Charles,
153

Coca, Imogene,
267
,
289

Coelho, Tony,
350
–51,
383

Coffey, Andrew,
477

Cohan, George M.,
53
,
90
,
300
,
339

Colbert, Claudette,
184

Colbert, Stephen,
485

Cold War,
6
,
240
,
252
,
269
,
287
,
289
,
314
,
338

Hope’s Moscow trip and,
304
–5,
319
–20,
322
–23

Vietnam War and,
382
–83

Colgate Comedy Hour,
283
–84,
289
–90,
306

College Swing,
120
,
126
,
130

Collins, Joan,
286

Colonna, Jerry,
229
,
305

Hope’s Christmas tours and,
326
,
330
,
365
–66,
368
–69,
372
,
374
,
379
–80

Hope’s movie career and,
154
,
242

Hope’s radio career and,
130
,
132
–33,
144
,
164
,
206
,
222
,
238
,
245
,
293

Hope’s stage shows and,
140
,
158

Vietnam War and,
368
–69,
372
,
374

World War II and,
189
,
191
,
196
,
209
–12,
219

Colonna, Robert,
229
–30,
245

Come Back, Little Sheba
,
293

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