Bob Hope's Scandalous Life Was Unsettling 

Met him when I was in an orphanage. Sammy Davis and Mr Hope were very kind to us and performed a fantastic show I still remember vividly. Sammy was the best dancer I’ve ever seen in my life.

My dad worked for a few years for Hope, he respected Mrs Hope, but did say Mr Hope always had a girlfriend that visited when Mrs Hope went to Palm Springs!

All Hope's mistresses met the same disturbing fate. They had to sleep with Bob Hope

I have no respect for any man or woman that cheats on their spouse or partner. The one person you are so connected to and and made a vow to love, honor and cherish, but you betray behind their back. Absolute trashy behavior

I catered Hollywood parties in my early 20's. I catered a huge party at Bob Hope's estate in Toluca Lake for his and Dolores's big 50th Wedding Anniversary. I spoke with their florist in a private butler's pantry during the party and he told me how Hope had cheated on Dolores so many times but she refused to divorce him. Then Hope made a speech about how great his wife was and he had to read it off of cue cards his minions held on the floor in front of him! I thought it was so weird that he couldn't think on his own of anything nice to say about her and neededcue cards in his own home!! The whole thing was bizarre.

Back when I was a kid I looked up to guys like Hope and Jerry Lewis. Now I see them and many other actors as they are jerks.

40 years ago the sister of a girl I was dating told me that a friend of hers went on one of those USO overseas tours with Bob Hope. She told me that Bob Hope pressured her friend to sleep with him or he threatened to leave her in Vietnam! I never quite believed this back then, but the more I hear about him the more it seems possible.

In the entertainment industry, it's more surprising to find someone who IS faithful. Being successful requires most performers to be single-minded, egomaniacal narcissists. Those types are not generally trustworthy or faithful.

IN JOAN RIVERS' AUTOBIO SHE SAID B.H. WAS THE MEANEST WHITE GUY SHE EVER KNEW/MET. I BELIEVE HER!

When I was a student usher at IU in Bloomington--I was working at Assembly Hall, when Hope performed there in the early 1970's. My co-workers said old Bob couldn't keep his hands off the female ushers.

Marlon Brando walked by Hope at a Oscar Ceremony an told him. Why don't you take some of the Texaco Millions you receive an retire.😂

Back in the 1970's I had a job making deliveries for a Toluca Lake area liquor store. Went to Bob Hope's, Joanne Worley, Johnathan Winters, Annette Funicello's houses among many others. The really interesting thing was some faded stars of old had interesting stories about Bob Hope. It seems he helped quite a few people develop income properties. And those properties were giving these people a good income after they were no longer performing. Bob Hope may have been famous as an entertainer. But he appears to have acquired more wealth by selling and developing real estate for people.

He was a high level Freemason - that should answer any questions

Eyes wide shut, the Bob Hope mask, that was a subliminal message about Hope.

I was a very young child in the 70`s and my grandmother's sister was a vaudeville dancer who had appeared in 9 movies between 1938-1944. Bit parts with only 1 or 2 lines in 6 of the movies but, 3 of them starred Bob Hope. She unfortunately died of a morphine overdose but not before telling my grandmother all about her affair with Bob Hope!!

You would have to be insatiably hungry for fame and money to date that guy. He wasn’t funny, he wasn’t kind, warm or charming and he most certainly was NOT handsome.

A good friend was around 10 when Hope attended an event featuring kids. He walked up to the comedian and very politely said 'It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Hope. I'm a big fan.' Immediately Hope reacted by yelling to his associates "Get this kid away from me!" One of them escorted my friend off and apologized for Hope's behavior. 'Don't take it personally. That's just how he is.'

🔔 A number of years ago an acquaintance (who had waited on Bob Hope in a restaurant) related that he was a miserable S.O.B. to the wait staff, treating them like they were far beneath His Highness.

'Snide' is the word that comes to mind when I think of him.

If you watch the Bob Hope episode of The Muppet Show, Kermit doesn't cheer after he introduces him. I honestly think Kermit was trying to tell us something with that lack of cheer.

He reportedly had a special suite at the swanky hotel in our town, that had a special back door to let his mistresses out in case his wife showed up. This was reported in our paper when the hotel was torn down

He hired famed architect John Lautner to build hope house , once entering the garage, there were two doors, one for Bob and one for his wife. They each lead to separate bedrooms, separate walk-in closets, separate offices, separate bathrooms.etc ! Strange marriage indeed

Hope was more than an entertainer. He handled those starlets who were under mind control. Marilyn Monroe was one of the "presidential models" used by politicians and handled by him. Frank Sinatra was another handler, that is why they were involved with so many young actresses. They used and abused many women.

There are still a lot of little "Bobs" (and grandson Bobs) running around out there. A special on Bob Hope that I saw with friends just a few years ago had them asking me in an agitated way to replay an interview scene in the show. I soon got what they meant when I replayed it and saw sitting very near to Bob in some movie theater seats a so-called "adopted" relative of his, named Tony. Turns out that Tony was a younger but almost identical match for Bob. Now since when do adopted kids look practically the same as their adopted dad? Since never, that's when!

Look into what Cathy O’Brien had to say about Bob Hope. He wasn’t just a bad husband, he was an absolute monster.

I read that Bob Hope was doing a concert in the Philippines, when a fan, a local woman, tried to give him a little sculpture she had made for him, he apparently looked down his nose at her and said "what the hell would I want something like that for" and walked away.

I was a circus performer in the 70s. I worked with him at the Minnesota State Fair. I swear to God, his TV appearances must have involved heavy audience coaching and laugh tracks because for his entire run at the fair the large grandstand audiences just sat silent. Hardly a single laugh. Half his act was begging for applause, which got the only laughs. Personally, I have never seen the attraction.

Stanley Kubrick paid tribute to Bob Hope in the movie eyes wide shut . There’s a scene a man is wearing a mask that has Bob Hope’s distinct profile.

Bob Hope was a sex addict like many performers, such as Al Jolson, Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and countless musicians. When you perform you can get very high almost to the point of hysteria. To calm down, performers often go to alcohol and sex. I've met many musician-groupies and actor-groupies. To this day, I don't understand them. Maybe there's a woman somewhere who can explain why so many girls throw themselves at these performers when, ordinarily, they are as modest and prudent as other women.

I always had the impression Bob Hope was reading cue cards and that paid writers provided his material. I never thought his delivery was funny.

He had a big ego. Like so many big stars, and they never know when to retire. They also don’t know how to “keep it in their pants”. All part of the ego getting fed.

Hopes reaction to Bing Crosby's death was fairly normal. The death of someone who has a strained relationship is often worse than a contented love .

I worked with Bob from 86-91. I think you all saw the movie Eyes Wide Shut. He told me “I couldn’t be handled”. He also made me an offer, nothing to do with show biz but then the show biz entertainment complex is now prefaced with the word ‘military entertainment complex’. Hope chose me from all the women in Canada to work with. There were always women with Bob but more CIA men then groupies. You left out all the rabbit holes.

I think he went on all those USO tours because he didn't like being at home, and he slways like to have all those starlets along.

My mom worked for Bob Hope at his Toluca Lake home and said that the security guard would tell my mom, on a daily basis, "Well, there he goes to meet up with one of his women!" If memory serves me right I think he would meet them for dinner at The Lamplighter" in the SanFernando Valley...after that?...who knows where they'd go? She told me she never once saw or met Delores Hope. Mrs. Hope had the Palm Springs home and he had the Toluca Lake one. I had been to the TL house once to pick up my mom and noticed that the furnishings were old and shabby and the area rugs thread bare in places. She told be that besides his womanizing, he was notoriously cheap.. But he was nice to her which is more than I can say of an actress she worked for later on who was a real "Mommie Dearest"...and I'm not talking about Crawford...you guess.😅

I'll hold off on my judgement of Bob Hope until I achieve perfection myself. He gave me great joy watching his movies, still does.

Hope was famously disliked in Hollywood. His writers HATED him. He paid them poorly and never gave them credit. The idea that any old-school Hollywood stars were 'faithful' is silly - they were all on the road or on location banging everything in sight. I doubt their wives had any illusions about it. Even George Burns confessed posthumously that he cheated on Gracie. He knew she knew - they never discussed it - he sent her a mink coat, and they never discussed it. According to Burns, it was a one-time slip.

He'd never get a second look from me.

I met an old show girl, back in the early 1990s, who worked with Bob and she told me stories about the dalliances of "Uncle Bob", on tour.

An affair or two can be forgiven. Living a bachelor life & just checking in with the wife once in a while is a COLLABORATION. If Mrs. Hope wasn't just in it for the money & the famous last name, she sure did a good imitation of it.

In Eye's Wide Shut, Kubrick had guards to the mansion/orgy scene wearing Bob Hope masks. He did it for a reason but died suddenly before he could explain.

Bob Hopes humour was 1940s and as kids we never could get enough of them. We re enacted the scenes walking home. Abbot and Costello were of the same class/era.

carson was no saint either

I always thought he was somewhat creepy.

Another reason people should never, ever look up to a person!

I enjoyed this expose very much. One note: as you used the word several times "dalliance" is pronounced DALLY-ants, not duh-LI-ance. Again, though, I enjoyed this video. Looking forward to seeing more from you!!

I don't like for people to venerate those who cheat on their spouses. It shows a definite lack of character - in the person who cheats & those who venerate him.

Hope and Crosby worked together on Paramount Pictures’ “Road” movies for YEARS! All the films are packed with great gags, and I don’t think anyone could watch any of them without laughing. But to the film industry, they’re NOT known as the “Road to…” Pictures. They are known as simply “The Road Pictures”. And the word “dalliance” is pronounced “DAL-ee-ance”.

When my husband was in a children's hospital in the fifties. Bob Hope stopped by the hospital and visited with some of the children there. He has a picture with Bob and some other children that were staying there at that time. At least he did charitable work, trying to make up for his faults.

Christmas Eve 1964 Bob Hope, Les Brown, and some others sat down right next to us at the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon. We wound up fixing Les up with a date. Hope was very congenial and many in the military appreciated his Christmas USO shows. Sorry to hear of his flaws. Guess he had a very patient wife in Dolores. Good info in this video.

Years ago I read a biography about Hope and it mentions that Hope could sleep anywhere. After hearing about all of these lovers, I guess the man could actually sleep anywhere.

Why is it that the funniest people are often the most depressed?

Never ever thought he was marginally funny...

He had that alert stare of someone looking to the main chance.. a reactive attitude where he could present his ego in the best light..responding with innuendo and slight asides I always thought of him as a product of the post war Hollywood star machine.all manufactured sincerity masquerading as showbusiness gloss😢

Rosemarie Frankland, Welsh actress, model, and beauty queen didn't pass away until 2000, at age 51, and it was said it was due to depression. Many actresses get depressed as they get older because they aren't offered the roles they once wete offered.

I could never understand why he was popular because he wasn't an outstanding comedian, and a dubious private life was not unusual in Hollywood.

Hopeless was a sex trafficker... it has come out from one of victims who is well known

Even one affair in a Marriage is abhorrent! Despicable behaviour from this Man!

I've heard even worse about him. Truly wicked. I won't watch anything with him in it.😡

Sad to find out people that were well thought up were actually monsters😢

What the video doesn't relate. Investments: 1. His brother, Jack Hope, was his business manager. Knowledgeable about tax laws, he had Bob do a number of 1031 exchanges all across the San Fernando Valley, ending up with about 18,000 acres on the Ventura County line. 2. In the 1930s when Bob and Bing made money, Bing spent his money and Bob invested in Texas oil properties. 3. Bob did have a three hole golf course on his property. About 8 full time guards. It was the only spot of county land in the area and that was no mistake - avoiding city property taxes.

We don't know these people. Off camera they could be anything. Even evil.

I saw Bob Hope in a private nightclub In a booth with a young woman in 1980 San Diego California. He would have been 77 years old at the time. Everyone left him alone & minded their own business. But I thought about his wife & that she probably didn’t have a clue.

Bob Hope is like a rabbit hole his secrets run deep. One is the fact that his father was a Stone Mason, WINK! WINK! Mason get it. In the movie Eyes wide shut by Stanley Kubrick, (may he rest in peace) and some say was warned not make this movie and now is dead a short time after the movie's release. In the movie there is scene where Tom Crues sneaks into this strange costume party the man that greats him is wearing a mask that looks just like Bob Hope. Stanley Kubrick did thing for a reason.

Hope was one of the biggest phonies in Hollywood and a real turd the way he treated people. His snide looks and remarks were evident in his monologues. Always a biting, sarcastic humor.

Re Dolores, "when a man marries his mistress, he leaves a vacancy in that position". She knew the score and enjoyed the ride of fame and riches. The concept of monogamy is strange to many people of power and fame. To them it's not living the lie at all. It's "just business", or more bluntly, none of your fking business.

Johnny Carson hated his guts.

Wow that was some spicy hot tea on Bob. I never knew he had such a checkered past.

It's always the ones with the goody-two-shoes image you have to watch out for. With actors, usually there's in inverse relationship to the characters they are known for and the reality of their lives.

Hope was a very unamusing free mason with dark connections. He outlived his welcome.

In the early 1980’s, my mom babysat the child of a doctor and his wife in NoCAL. The mother of the wife would often come by to visit her granddaughter while my mom was there babysitting, and they got to talking. Long story short…the grandmother explained that though her daughter knew she was an adopted child, what she didn’t know is that she was the child of Bob Hope and some starlet. My mom said there could be no denying, since the woman’s daughter bore a striking resemblance to Hope, especially the famous “ski slope” nose. Hope apparently fathered quite a few illegitimate children, which is why I find it ironic that he and his wife adopted their four children. I was peripherally acquainted with one of Hope’s adopted children, who spoke very highly of Bob and Delores as parents, only complaining that their Christmases were never like the Hollywood ideal presented in all of Bob Hope’s many Christmas shows, simply because Hope was never home for the holidays with the family. So, though he may have been a major womanizer, among other things, Hope must be given credit for his outstanding efforts to entertain servicemen who couldn’t be home with their families. I never cared for him as a cue-card reading stand up, but I still love watching him in movies. Woody Allen, another notorious womanizer, credits Bob Hope’s comedic timing in movies to his own delivery, and if you think about it and watch both of them, you can really see it. No one is perfect, and perhaps those who give a great deal to others often feel entitled then to take what they want, particularly from people wanting to give to them, which explains why so many women were willing to throw themselves at a man who, imo, was about as far away from a sexy man as one can get!

There was a older woman on Twitter around 2018 who tried to tell people she wss sold to Hope when she was 11 yrs old by her father ,when he went on his USO shows he would send her to stay with friends like Frank Sinatra ,never communicated with her but tells me why in the movie Eyes Wide Shut there was someone wearing a Bob Hope mask,he had that one young child ,he didn't need another woman after buying a 11 yr old child

Hope had to be the "un-funniest" A list comedian in history. I remember back in the mid sixties (I was like 7 or 8) he'd have these NBC comedy specials on all the time. It was obvious to me even at that age that he was reading cue cards, none of the jokes were remotely funny, and neither was he. It was a complete mystery to me why this guy had a tv show and why he was so revered, he totally sucked!

Wow, so many of them fooled us for a long time.

I've been reading hundreds of comments below. If the two books mentioned, 'Trance-formations' and 'Thanks for the Memories' are not enough; there's more material on the books focusing on Laurel Canyon; we're not talking about a typical range of evil; we're talking about accusations of behavior so vile it defies the imagination. Please do not dismiss the severity of the issues.

If you think that's bad...Brice Taylor's 1999 book Thanks For The Memories ... The Truth Has Set Me Free! The Memoirs of Bob Hope's and Henry Kissinger's Mind-Controlled Slave

Exposés like this one burst the bubble of growing up in the sixties. I prefer to know little about the personal lives & POLITICS of people that entertain me. The truth is usually so ugly it prevents me from watching them again. I try to live my life so that my wife & children will never be shocked or embarrassed about who i̲ was. By the way, the word is: “dAl iance” not Da līance. 😊

Thanks for the video -- I enjoyed it enormously!

He often came to NZ to go fly fishing. He was always whistling out to girls no matter his age or theirs.

My mom saw him film Buttons and Bows. She said he cursed the whole time in between takes. Back then, i was shocked! Lol

And one of Bob Hope's best friends was none other than Billy Graham ...... this was left out of the video. Bob Hope was well known in the Hollywood area as a sex machine.

i met Bob when i was 17 at hogates in Dc he was about 90 he ask me when i walked to his table while he was eating how did you no who i was i tokd him i been watching you since i was a kid he told me you good young man gave me signatufe on napkin it disitergrated i cried

What a disgusting and devious person. How many died because of his lies and disaappointment of young women and their famlies and other friends who suffered the loss.

Read "Thanks for the MEMORIES" by Brice Taylor. She was a sex slave who's handler was Henry Kissinger and Hope was her owner. You can find free PDFs of the book online.

"DuhLIEance" 😂 It's actually _dally-ance,_ rhymes with "Sally"+ ance.

My father ( North Africa to VE Day ) pointed out that Hope insisted on a guarantee that he be kept out of combat zones. His favorite was Marlene Dietrich, who put on a show like nothing else in the world and repeatedly performed under fire.

Secret? Back then no one didn’t know about Hope’s escapades.

The party scene in eye's wide shut was a huge clue and many missed it or didn't believe it

There was always something creepy about this guy.

He was wicked read the book, "Thanks for the Memories" author was a MKUltra victim from an infant up and Bob Hope was one of the wretched that abused her.

As an Englishman, I can only apologise for the fact that we allowed him to escape and settle among you. He was quite revolting, desperately unfunny and somewhat pathetic.

LOL 100 years old and no Burial plan... Now that's hopeful.

Fantastic video. Over the years l have heard about Hope's escapades but your video was even more complete and really made some good points. All of the other stuff aside when Hope was incredibly wealthy and could have just retired he risked his life going into combat zones to entertain the troops which was an extremely brave thing to do. As far as his wife was concerned she was a realist who enjoyed an unbelievable life. It's not just about the money, it's the contacts and the access she maintained by remaining Mrs. Bob Hope forever, smart lady.

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That was NOT Dorothy Lamour sitting between Crosby and Hope. Br careful.

Well, his name was finally removed from the Burbank airport.

Why do you think family guy made Quagmire look like him?😂

maybe so, but I always appreciated his unparalleled efforts for our troops, especially during Vietnam 👏👏

How can you be sad, if the person Your working with you can't stand???

Thanks!