BOB HOPE & DOROTHY LAMOUR - Orig. Vint. Phot. ca.1944
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BOB HOPE & DOROTHY LAMOUR ( ♣ I sell copies ONLY under request ♣ ) A genuine Vintage Photograph from Two Great Comediant s . ♣ Probably Date: 1 944 ♣ Size of the Photograph: 7.20 x 9.5 0 inches (aprox.) Condition of the Photograph: VERY GOOD (Small m arks and folds at the corners and at the edges , as you can see) This is not a Reproduction or a current copy is Real Vintage This photograph, like many others, comes from an Argentinean Newspaper collection I bought some years ago. BOB HOPE : It is hardly necessary to enumerate the accomplishments, patriotic services, charitable donations, awards, medals, and honorariums pertaining to Bob Hope, a man for whom the word "legend" seems somehow inadequate. Never mind that he was born in England; the entertainer unquestionably became an American institution. Hope's father was a stonemason and his mother a one-time concert singer; when he was two, his parents moved him and his brothers to Cleveland, w relatives awaited. Since everyone in the Hope clan was expected to contribute to the family's income, he took on several part-time jobs early in life. One of these was as a concessionaire at Cleveland's Luna Park, w Hope had his first taste of show business by winning a Charlie Chaplin imitation contest. (He later claimed he'd gotten his brothers to strong-arm all the neighborhood kids
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