Bob Hope in his Joke File vault. Annie Leibovitz. Copyprint, July 17, 1995. Courtesy of Annie Leibovitz. About this image
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Bob Hope was among the 20,000 vaudeville performers working in the 1920s. Many of these performers were, like Hope, recent immigrants to America who saw a vaudeville career as one of the few ways to succeed as a "foreigner" in America. Bob Hope practiced the arts he learned in vaudeville and perpetuated variety entertainment traditions in stage musical comedy, motion pictures, radio, television, and the live appearances he made around the world in support of American armed forces. In addition to the material relating to Hope’s long career, this exhibit also includes memorabilia from early vaudeville to the later variety and comedy shows.
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General
- Span Dates
- 1886-1998
- Bulk Dates
- 1920-1980
- Major Language(s)
- English
- Repository
- General Collections, Manuscripts Division, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Music Division, Prints and Photographs Division, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Library of Congress.
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 200
- Contents
- Scripts, Correspondence, Photographs, Drawings
