Bob Hope and Grace Kelly Open the 1955 Oscars 

Love how Grace Kelly went on stage to present the award with her tiny handbag hanging from her tiny arm).

This was back when awards shows really were an event to look forward to . Stars dressed to the nines , classy behavior . Nobody acting like assholes for attention

I wish I could go back in time

What a great list of films for '54, their music, actors, and other great attributes.

Watch one of these and then you can't stop.

It a shame that grace kelly had a short career, she would have had an amazing career with more films😢😢😢

It seems Bob hope monopolized the part. Thank you speeches were short back then. Actors didn’t have to bore us with their views on politics or anything else. They were so charming!

you gotta love bob hope with grace kelly both super-stars !!!!!!!

Grace Kelly: top five most beautiful

Bob Hope is as slick as always. Such a great comedian and the best emcee.

I wish times didn't have to change so much and so fast. Movie stars were so talented and glamorous. Now.?not so much :(

i was born that year in sept 28 1955 i remember it was the year , (correct me if im wrong) that Anna Magnani won an oscar for best foreign film the" rose tattoo" i still remember the 1955 chevy bel-air of our neighbor in El Paso tx those were the good old days when people had a lot of class & neighbors care about each other by the way , i was only a toddler in 1958 but always had a vood memory & still do today in 2019 64 yrs later i wish time machines were real so i could go back & put my hands around my mother's neck , she is still around Thank God she's 91...

Thelma Ritter is one of my favorite actresses

Grace Kelly is stunning...she makes my poor country boy heart go pitter pat.

I don't understand how A Star is Born did not get even nominated for best cinematography. It is probably the first really "artistic" color/Cinemascope movie, exponentially more beautiful than Seven Brides!

I MISS THE OLD HOLLYWOOD ⭐️💫

A "no host" Oscar may very well be the norm as is appropriate since we have a "no class" Oscars now. 😥

bob hope is the best

Wasn't she lovely. Wouldn't it be fun to go back in time? Every era has its challenges but 1954 seemed like a great time to be alive, way before my time. People behaved and dressed well in public. Women behaved with grace, men with chivalry. Most of all, people seemed contented, the country was united, the future was bright.

That Hitchcock didn't win directing award for Rear Window is a travesty. The film wasn't even up for best film either but the sappy Three Coins in the Fountain was.

What a magical time; I wish I could of been 21 years in 1939 and lived through the 40's and 50's;

Absolute Class all the way!... Big contract to this year's Oscars where everyone was treated to "Doogie Houser" in his undies.

....note that an overture is used to set the mood, just like they do in Broadway musicals.

There was the great Jeff Chandler in the audience

Sadly they don't have this array of talent anymore.

Since I got this phone I get to see awards shows that I haven't seen before I was born it's a treat to see some of my favorite stars from yesteryear

Such a shame nobody goes to movies much anymore. Perhaps if they made better ones,...

Class, good dressings, no political discussion and jabs. This is what the Oscars should strive to be like.

Rear Window was snubbed for Best Picture.

What a genius. His comic timing is nonpariel.

The Princess would look much better without the purse in arm, as lovely as she is!

Judy Garland was robbed nothing. Grace Kelly deserved winning.

Oscars could u please tell me the name of the woman receiving the Oscar for Thursday's children announced by the enchantingly beautiful Grace Kelly???

Good times! Now they’re absolutely terrible!

Grace Kelly is my great granddaughter

GRACE DIED DO YOUNG. SHE WAS ONLY 52.

I remember seeing Marty at only 6 years old.

Thelma Ritter--"Night Court" in the 1970s!

Damals war noch Frack angesagt - waren das Zeiten :-) und Grace Kelley ....

Bob HOPE’s Jokes are still funny!!

Back then all men looked like retired military officers, and all women looked like glamerous royal family guests. It must be very difficult and expensive to maintain a wife like that.

Note the name of that theater where the Oscars ceremonies were once held. The Pantages family had a very scandalous history. The old man was a Greek immigrant who made good in America eventually owning a theater chain. He stood trial for rape, and separately his wife was tried for vehicular homicide DWI when she swerved into a vehicle occupied by Japanese Americans. Then there was second son Lloyd Pantages. Just use your search engine to see him. I'll just say, he was clean shaven but there were beards everywhere when he was in public.

1955, when the Oscars presented the prototype of the COVID-era ZOOM awards shows.

거의 70년전이군요. 그때나 지금이나 오스카상은 최고중의 최고 였군요. 저 분들 중에 살아 계신 분은 몇 분 안되겠죠? 세월의 무상 함을 일깨워 주는 군 요.

i love grace sm

Была одна актриса, которая за своим почетным Оскаром в тот год даже не пришла, так же, как и не ходила на какие либо другие мероприятия. Это великая Грета Гарбо!

Bob seems very out of place in that era, far ahead of his time. I don't think they were ready for that kind of wit. Bob is doing what Dave, Jay and other talkshow hosts were and are doing today.

crear artist the future princesa dame grace kelly

Today's Orwellian goes to the most political agenda and activism driven movies.

Bob Hope is pretty funny lmao

If I'm not wrong I think this was the 1st or 2nd televised Oscars

Dorothy Dandridge❤ Marilyn Monroe❤ James Dean💙

7:32 🤣 you would get cancelled if you made that joke today.

not a bad actress and a very beautiful woman phisically and which is more important moraly Grace

Was Grace Kelly, engaged to Rainier, then ?

This is when Actors Had Class…….. sadly no more!!

I still say Judy garland was robbed of the best actress Oscar for a star is born I'm sure Grace Kelly won it because she was retiring to marry her Prince like a goodbye gift at Judy's expense

absolutely true judy garland deserved that b oscar ..money talks

Grace Kelly was so beautiful but the Oscar should have gone to Judy Garland.

No politics by Marxist actors/actresses

2:43 What is the name of this aristocrat woman ?

If all those Americans could see America now 😒

Think about today's Oscars, particularly 2019, & what you see is an absence of social grace & respect. Combine this with politics, political agenda, & just lack of class, with Hope absent, & what one has is a nadir in Hollywood. Yes...an Oscar which anyone from 1955-1970 wouldn't even recognize. Protesting by standing in the aisle during the ceremony--this is where Hollywood is as this institution tolerated such behavior. No class now that Hope & Carson are gone.

Was that a laugh track ?

Hey why aren't they preaching to us? What's wrong?!?

Judy Garland was robbed...she should have won

I was born in the wrong era

14:28

Hard to watch … not good bideo

The Oscars have some of the worst writing of any ceremony - and film, for that matter. The six minutes of back-to-back, non-stop quips by Bob Hope - most barely worth even the slightest of smiles - was tiresome and boring. It reminds me of when Billy Crystal hosted one year - same thing. Make a few quips and get on with the show. I’d be willing to bet the audience feels the same way. Enough, already!

sorry,Hope,not my kind.

Bob Hope's humor as emcee is, well, old, and was not even funny then.