BOB HOPE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/06/1953 - HFSID 36107
Price: $180.00
BOB HOPE
Bob Hope sends a typed letter of thanks for being on the stage in
Cleveland.
Typed Letter Signed: "Bob H.", 1p, 7¼x10½. No place, 1953
November 6. To Socialist leader Norman Thomas, New York, New York. In
full: "This is just a note to thank you for sitting on the stage at my
television show (such as it was) in Cleveland. I hope you weren't too
disappointed. We had a tremendous problem in putting on the show in that old
hall. The acoustics and lighting were both bad and the producer was thrown off
completely in his timings. You saw what happened. I am very grateful to you for
consenting to be up there. Thanks, again. Sincerely," NORMAN THOMAS
was the Socialist Party's presidential nominee six consecutive times from
1928-1948. BOB HOPE (1903-2003) was born in England, moving with his
family to the U.S. when he was four. A popular vaudeville performer from the
1920s, he starred in Broadway musicals of the 1930s, including Roberta
and Red, Hot and Blue. Among the most popular of his 53 films were the
"Road to ..." movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, beginning with
The Road to Singapore (1940). He won three honorary awards from the
Academy of Motion Pictures (1940, 1944, and 1965). Seven months before Pearl
Harbor, he appeared in the first of his shows for American servicemen, a
tradition he would continue through a Persian Gulf tour in 1991. His success
as a comedian continued unabated from radio to television with the long-running
Bob Hope Show (1950-1967) and with guest appearances continuing
through 1992. A well known philanthropist, friend to Presidents, and avid
golfer with his own tournament (the Bob Hope Desert - later Chrysler - Classic,
begun in 1960), Hope has made an enduring contribution to American culture.
Fold creases not near signature. Staple holes at upper left blank corner. Fine
condition.
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