Bob Hope Collection: 1938-1946
Overview
Ten-disc set includes: Give Me A Sailor (1938)This lively musical-comedy stars Bob Hope and Jack Whiting as brother sailors Jim and Walter Brewster, who meet sisters Nancy and Letty (Betty Grable, Martha Raye) while on leave. Walter has the hots for Nancy, but so does Jim, who tries to fix his brother up with Letty. Songs include "What Goes Here in My Heart?," "A Little Kiss at Twilight." 80 min. Total. BW/Rtg: NR Thanks For The Memory (1938)Out of a job, writer Steve Merrick (Bob Hope) decides it's time to knuckle down and finish the Great American Novel-while keeping up the house-as new bride Ann (Shirley Ross) returns to modeling to be the breadwinner. Between his disastrous domesticity, interfering neighbors, and some mutual jealousy, will the new arrangement leave them on the rocks? Romantic farce co-stars Charles Butterworth, Otto Kruger, Hedda Hopper. 75 min. BW/Rtg: NR Never Say Die (1939)Loony millionaire John Kidley (Bob Hope), under the mistaken belief that he only has one month to live, marries a tycoon's daughter (Martha Raye) so that she will inherit his money and be able to wed her true love. What will happen when John's diagnosis is corrected? With Andy Devine and Gale Sondergaard. 82 min. Total. BW/Rtg: NR The Cat And The Canary (1939)Take one gloomy mansion in the Louisiana bayou, add a group of relatives gathered for a will reading and marked for elimination by a mysterious killer, and sprinkle in some classic Bob Hope one-liners, and you get this lively updating of the "old dark house" chiller. Paulette Goddard is the heiress who catches wise-cracking actor Wally Campbell's (Hope) eye. Third film version of the 1922 stage play co-stars Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery. 75 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Ghost Breakers (1940)Radio crime show host Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) went on the run after after getting mixed up in the murder of a mobster (Anthony Quinn), and wound up sharing a stateroom with Cuba-bound heiress Mary Carter (P
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Details
- Format: DVD (NTSC Region 0)
- UPC: 9337369021645
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: G
- Release Date: August 2020
