Bob Hope: Classic Comedy Collection.
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Published
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, 2014.
Format
DVD
Language
English
UPC
025192178610

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General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Thanks for the memory: Based on a play by Albert Hackett and Francis Goodrich.
General Note
Never Say die: Based on a play by William H. Post.
Creation/Production Credits
Give me a sailor: Photography, Victor Milner; art direction, Hans Dreier, Earl Hedrick; editor, William Shea; sound recording, Harry Lindgren, Richard Olson; interior decorations, A.E. Freudeman; costumes, Edith Head; dances, LeRoy Prinz; musical adviser, Phil Boutelje; musical direction, Boris Morros; music and lyrics, Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin.
Creation/Production Credits
Thanks for the memory: Director of photography, Karl Struss; editor, Alma Ruth Macrorie; music, Boris Morros.
Creation/Production Credits
Caught in the draft: Director, David Butler, produced by B.G. DeSylva, story and screenplay by Harry Tugend. Give me a sailor: directed by Elliott Nugent, screenplay by Doris Anderson and Frank Butler.
Creation/Production Credits
Sorrowful Jones: Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp; music, Robert Emmett Dolan; editor, Arthur Schmidt.
Creation/Production Credits
Paleface: director of photography, Ray Rennahan; music, Victor Young; editor, Ellsworth Hoagland.
Creation/Production Credits
The cat and the canary: Director of photography, Charles Lang; editor, Archie Marshek; music, Ernst Toch.
Creation/Production Credits
The ghost breakers: Director of photography, Charles Lang; editor, Ellsworth Hoagland; music, Ernst Toch.
Creation/Production Credits
My favorite blonde: Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; music score, David Buttolph ; editor, William Shea.
Creation/Production Credits
The paleface: Director of photography, Ray Rennahan; editor, Ellsworth Hoagland; music, Victor Young.
Creation/Production Credits
Never say die: Photographed by Leo Tover ; editor, James Smith ; musical director, Boris Morros, Screenplay by Don Hartman, Frank Butler and Preston Sturges ; produced by Paul Jones.
Participants/Performers
Give me a sailor: Martha Raye (Letty Larkin) and Bob Hope (Jim Brewster). With Betty Grable (Nancy Larkin), Jack Whiting (Walter Brewster), Clarence Kolb (Captain Tallant) and J.C. Nugent (Mr. Larkin). Bonnie Jean Churchill (Ethel May Brewster); Nana Bryant (Mrs. Brewster).
Participants/Performers
Thanks for the memory: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth.
Participants/Performers
Sorrowful Jones: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot. Paleface: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian.
Participants/Performers
Caught in the draft: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour.
Participants/Performers
The cat and the canary: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal.
Participants/Performers
The ghost breakers: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson.
Participants/Performers
Nothing but the truth: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold.
Participants/Performers
My favorite blonde: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll ; with, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Victor Varconi, Lionel Royce, Walter Kingsford.
Participants/Performers
The paleface: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong.
Participants/Performers
Never say die: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray.
Description
A collection of 10 classic movies staring Bob Hope.
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Give me a sailor: Jim enlists Letty to help him win over her sister is he helps set her up with his brother.
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Thanks for the memory: A stay-at-home author and his working wife discover their domestic roles are not clear cut in this comedy of errors.
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Never say die: A gold-digging widow tries to trap a millionaire into a hasty wedding.
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Caught in the draft: Hope plays a gun-shy movie star who gets drafted. He pulls through and ends up a hero and wins the heart of the colonel's daughter.
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Sorrowful Jones: A rotten gambler learns a lesson about parenthood. The Paleface: "Painless Peter Potter" (Hope) runs into Calamity Jane (Russell).
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The cat and the canary: "Wally vows to protect an heiress who must spend the night in the haunted mansion of her late eccentric, millionaire uncle in order to inherit his fortune."--Container.
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The ghost breakers: "Ghosts and gags collide when a radio personality finds himself marooned on an island with a pretty traveler in a haunted castle filled with earthly and unearthly foes."--Container.
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Nothing but the truth: "After betting his colleagues that he can go 24 hours without telling a lie, a young stockbroker finds himself in hot water with his girlfriend and several influential people.--Container.
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My favorite blonde: It's all aboard for intrigue, laughs and romance as Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll contend with German spies during a daffy but dangerous cross-country chase.
Description
The paleface: "Timid correspondence school dentist 'Painless' Peter Potter unwittingly marries sharpshooter Calamity Jane who is hot on the trial of a dangerous renegade gang in the Wild West."--Container.
Description
Never say die: Comedy about a millionaire hypochondriac who thinks he has only one month to live.
System Details
DVD; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital stereo.; region 1.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Whiting, J., Kolb, C., Bryant, N., Nichols, A., Lamour, D., Whiting, J., Raye, M., Butler, D., De Sylva, B. G. 1., Tugend, H., Nugent, E., Anderson, D., Lanfield, S., McLeod, N. Z., Demarest, W., Russell, J., Armstrong, R., Sondergaard, G., Hope, B., Ross, S., Grable, B., Lamour, D., Goddard, P., Hartman, D., Butler, F., Starling, L., Archainbaud, G., Anderson, D., & Nugent, E. (2014). Bob Hope: Classic Comedy Collection . Universal Studios.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jack Whiting et al.. 2014. Bob Hope: Classic Comedy Collection. Universal Studios.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jack Whiting et al.. Bob Hope: Classic Comedy Collection Universal Studios, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Whiting, Jack, et al. Bob Hope: Classic Comedy Collection Universal Studios, 2014.

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