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00:02He had a ski jump nose and shifty eyes, and he was far too nervous ever to be a hero,
00:08but moviegoers loved him.
00:09Soldiers overseas couldn't wait for his Christmas shows, and Bing Crosby wouldn't have gone on the road with anyone else
00:16but Bob Hope.
00:17I'm Peter Graves, and this is Biography.
00:54I'm Peter Graves, and this is Biography.
01:04I'm Peter Graves, and I'm Peter Graves, and I'm Peter Graves.
01:30A brief appreciation of over 70 years in the spotlight, so join me now for Bob Hope, Thanks for the
01:37Memories.
02:07I'm Peter Graves, and I'm Peter Graves, and I'm Peter Graves.
02:21Bob Hope has always been in our lives, that he's always been a part of our entertainment, of our awareness
02:29of our troops.
02:30He's always been the man that made fun of our presidents, and he's always been somebody we could count on.
02:37Bob Hope was always there.
02:39He was adorable, charming, sexy.
02:44He had it all, and he used it wisely.
02:48But there's nothing laid back about him.
02:51He's involved in every detail.
02:53He's involved in every thought, and he is conscious of that audience every minute of the day or night.
03:02I think he has a laugh machine in the bedroom, I'm not sure.
03:05I thought I knew how to deal with him, but he was a man that was very tough to figure
03:09out all the time,
03:10because every time I thought I had him all absolutely figured out, he'd surprise me with something else.
03:23Bob Hope was born in London on May 29, 1903, to William Hope, a master stonemason, and his wife, Avis.
03:31At age four, little Leslie Townshope emigrated with his family to the USA, joining other relatives in Cleveland, Ohio.
03:41With six brothers, our home became like a frat house, recalls Hope.
03:47He first dreamed of becoming a boxer, but eventually dropped out of high school to try his luck as a
03:53song and dance man
03:54at a local vaudeville theater, with his first partner in the team of Lynn and Hope.
04:00Nobody knew me, and I couldn't get a date.
04:03And finally, I'd been making about $10 a night, and finally a friend of mine, Charlie Cooley,
04:08introduced me to an agent who said, I'll give you a date at the West Englewood Theater in Chicago,
04:12and would $25 be enough?
04:15And I, he called, because I'd never made that much money.
04:18And I starved in Chicago for quite a while.
04:21In fact, my name was Lester Hope, and I changed it to Bob, because I thought that was more chummy.
04:26He was always known in vaudeville as Rapid Robert.
04:29He had more jokes per minute than anybody else in the world, and most of them his.
04:35Which, uh, we couldn't save for Milton.
04:38A guest spot in Fatty Arbuckle's traveling show led to the mecca of show business New York
04:44as a headliner on the RKO circuit.
04:49Broadway beckoned with a featured role in Ballyhoo of 1932,
04:53followed by leads in Jerome Kern's Roberta,
04:57the Ziegfeld Polly's,
05:00and Cole Porter's Red, Hot, and Blue,
05:03with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman.
05:07During the run of Roberta,
05:09Bob went to hear a late-night set by nightclub singer Dolores Reed.
05:13It was love at first sight.
05:15They married three months later.
05:17Dolores performed on the road with Bob for two years,
05:20then retired from show business,
05:22and voted her time to Bob
05:23and to raising their four adopted children.
05:27But if you wouldn't mind,
05:30I'll go into the chorus,
05:32cause you're sweeter than molasses.
05:37While still on Broadway,
05:38Bob commuted to the Astoria Studios of Educational Pictures in Queens
05:43to make his very first film appearance in Going Spanish,
05:47a 20-minute short subject released in 1934.
05:50He shared this duet with actress Leah Wright.
05:53That's just what I would wish
05:57Cause your rosy lips
05:59Remind me of
06:01A pound of fish!
06:04Ironically, the film's producers canceled Hope's contract
06:07after he joked that
06:09when they catch John Dillinger,
06:11they're going to make him sit through it twice.
06:13Like to be your great boy
06:15Warner Brothers apparently found the film funny
06:17and signed him to seven more short productions.
06:20...would be well seasoned
06:22And never breath or sweet
06:25Cause I bring you candy every day
06:28And nuts to you
06:38During the Depression years in the 30s,
06:41radio reached more than 10 million homes.
06:44Simultaneous with his break into movies,
06:48Hope got his start on the airwaves,
06:49emceeing NBC's Rippling Rhythm Review
06:53with a female sidekick known as Honeychild.
06:57...
06:57Cause I'd been on a couple of shows,
06:59the Atlantic White Class show
07:00and the Woodbury soap show
07:02and the Broma Seltzer show
07:04and didn't score.
07:06A year later,
07:07the Pepsodent show starring Bob Hope debuted
07:09and Tuesday night became Hope Night across America.
07:14Hurry up, Professor,
07:15or we'll miss the train.
07:16Okay, here's the track.
07:17Hope, first I'll load on your suitcase.
07:18I'll get down on my knees,
07:19you pile them up on my back.
07:20Okay, Cloner.
07:21So I decided I had to get the best material
07:24and I picked up some sensational writers
07:26in California
07:27and we got $3,000 for the whole thing.
07:31Put them up,
07:31one on top of the other.
07:32Don't be afraid.
07:33Put them all on there.
07:34Hope, keep piling them up.
07:35There you are, Cloner.
07:35You're down on your knees
07:36with 12 suitcases on your back.
07:37What are you going to do now?
07:38He said as if ad-libbing
07:42the line I had written
07:43and it got a huge laugh
07:46because naturally the boss said it.
07:48So it got a huge laugh
07:50and it went in the script.
07:52That was my first line in the script
07:53and he looked at me and he said,
07:55you didn't know I was that funny, did you?
07:57Go sideways.
07:58Well, no sense wasting a position like this.
08:00Get out the dice.
08:03We were smashed.
08:04In about 10 weeks,
08:05we went to number one
08:06and from then on,
08:07we just flew.
08:12A&E's biography of Bob Hope
08:14will continue in a moment.
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10:49Biography returns to our profile
10:51of entertainment legend Bob Hope.
10:55Bob moved to the Paramount lot
10:57for his feature film debut
10:59in the big broadcast of 1938.
11:03Introducing the song
11:04that was to become his signature.
11:07Thanks for the memory.
11:14By 1940, Bob Hope was an established star
11:17of motion pictures and radio.
11:20But his career took an unexpected turn that year
11:23when he was asked to team up
11:24with a 36-year-old crooner
11:26from Spokane, Washington.
11:28A film written for but rejected
11:30by Burns and Allen.
11:32Bob and Bing set off
11:34on the road to Singapore.
11:36On the way, they would pick up
11:37Dorothy L'Amour.
11:39And together, they would
11:40cavort around the globe.
11:42Boston and Zanzibar,
11:43Morocco,
11:44and Utopia
11:45on their way to Rio.
11:51You mean you're gonna hire those guys?
11:53Why not?
11:53Let's talk to them.
11:54I'll be back in a minute.
11:55Yeah, but they're on key.
11:56Come on.
11:57You gonna break open
11:57the happy brew or what?
11:59Let's go.
12:00Ready?
12:01Let's go.
12:12To the Dixie Hotshot?
12:14Yes, right.
12:17Well, not so hard.
12:18I must go on a diet.
12:20A grape must be a little grumpy.
12:22We'll go again?
12:24Right there.
12:24I'll put it right in there.
12:30Pretty athletic stuff.
12:31That might have happened
12:32to my stomach.
12:33You ready, boy?
12:34I guess so.
12:35We're through here.
12:35Ready?
12:36How about that?
12:40Now, don't miss this time.
12:43What are you looking for?
12:44A light.
12:47Well, you got a light.
12:50Harley, don't call me
12:51hot lips for nothing,
12:52you know, huh?
12:54Hey, let's get out of here.
12:56This joint is haunted.
12:58Bob had his writers,
12:59and we all wrote
13:00all the time
13:01on the movie,
13:02even though there was
13:03a script.
13:03We wrote every day
13:05for whatever they were
13:06shooting the next day,
13:07and Bing had his writers,
13:09and they wrote every day.
13:11And then Bing and Bob
13:13would hide the material,
13:15and then they would
13:16ad-lib it on the set.
13:18They must have got our wires.
13:21Oh, we got to ration
13:22ourselves down here,
13:24you know.
13:24Let's get the box lunches
13:25and head for the high
13:25country, Megatron.
13:26I don't know which way
13:27to turn.
13:27Everything looks so good.
13:29Don't get tied down.
13:30This may just be
13:30the older stuff,
13:31you know.
13:33Oh, no.
13:34What's that?
13:35It's Errol Flynn.
13:35He can't stand it.
13:37The crew laughed,
13:39and that's who really
13:40decided the shows,
13:41the camera crews
13:43and the lighting people
13:44and all,
13:45and they were the audience.
13:46So they're actually
13:48in movies.
13:49We're no different
13:49than television.
13:51They were audience tested.
13:52Oh, go run.
13:53Play with the peasants.
13:54I'll take care
13:54of the royalty.
13:55Do you mind?
13:55Oh, me?
13:56We will always
13:57fight over girls.
13:58What else can we fight over?
13:59We've never had any money.
14:02That's for Washington.
14:04Now, let's be fair.
14:05Let's be fair, Leroy.
14:06If you can't pay,
14:08they give you time.
14:09Now.
14:09Follow me, gentlemen.
14:11Where else?
14:12Coming.
14:13And with Bing,
14:14who is a fabulous comedian
14:16and straight man,
14:18and I'm a fabulous straight man,
14:21you know,
14:21comedians are the best straight men
14:23because they know how
14:24a guy would like to be fed.
14:26All I know,
14:26it was the happiest collaboration
14:29in the history of movies.
14:32I just finished working
14:34in a picture
14:35just the other day.
14:36Yesterday, in fact,
14:37we finished.
14:38Finished doing a picture
14:39called Road to Morocco
14:41with Dorsey L'Amour
14:42and Bing Crosby.
14:44You know, L'Amour,
14:45the girl who sat on a shoestring,
14:46now she wears her costume.
14:49And, of course,
14:49I know you know Crosby,
14:51the singing jockey.
14:52I know you know him.
14:54Oh, he's a grand guy.
14:55I shouldn't say that
14:55because he's a wonderful fella.
14:56I love him,
14:57even though he has got a lot of money.
15:01Hope and Crosby's good-natured rivalry
15:03and shameless ad-libbing
15:05were irresistible.
15:07But they shared a special chemistry.
15:09And their real-life friendship,
15:11including freaking golf games,
15:13continued until Crosby's death
15:15in 1977.
15:19We made a picture in England
15:22called Road to Hong Kong
15:23where we lived together
15:24in Ascot,
15:25being his family,
15:26and my family lived in one wing
15:28and he lived in the other.
15:30He was a swell guy.
15:35As the nation's attention
15:37focused on World War II,
15:39Hope devoted more time
15:41to the war.
15:42How do you do,
15:43ladies and gentlemen?
15:43This is Bob,
15:44just returned from over there, Hope.
15:46Really had a most thrilling trip.
15:48Very exciting
15:49with Francis Langford.
15:50That doesn't sound right, does it?
15:52No, I had a wonderful trip.
15:54Had Francis Langford with us
15:55and Tony Romano
15:56and Jack Pepper.
15:57And we saw all our boys
15:59really doing a sensational job
16:01over there.
16:01He worked tirelessly
16:03to sell war bonds
16:04and raise money for the USO.
16:07Here's a little souvenir
16:08that one of our boys
16:09gave us over in Sicily.
16:10This is a Mussolini mother medal.
16:12A little racket
16:13that Mussolini had
16:14he gave the mothers a medal
16:15for having children.
16:16This particular mother had eight.
16:18That's nice work
16:19if you can get it, huh?
16:21Wait till Crosby sees this.
16:22This may put him out of business.
16:25I was way out in the Aleutians
16:28on this little rock
16:30that the government saw fit
16:32for me to defend
16:34against seals, I guess.
16:35I don't know what I was doing there.
16:38And we had a radio reception
16:42and we heard a command performance
16:45with Bing and Bob
16:47and I never forgot it.
16:49This is Bob,
16:49command performance hope,
16:51telling each Nazi
16:51that's in Russia today
16:52that Crimea doesn't pay.
16:56And now comes the ordinance gang
16:57at 863
16:58with a letter from Sarge,
16:59Everett Hankey
17:00and Corporal Roland Lipton
17:01and this little dilly.
17:03The dear command
17:04enclosed please find peace
17:05off top of Stuka Dive Bomber
17:07for which you will please
17:08have Lana Turner
17:09come out and fry us
17:10a three-inch porterhouse steak
17:11smothered with onions
17:12and let's hear it sizzle.
17:14Just to prove
17:14there's no request
17:15too large, fellas,
17:16here she is,
17:16Lana Turner.
17:25Hello, fellas.
17:26Hi, Bob.
17:28Say, have the FBI men
17:29found a steak yet?
17:30Yes, it's backstage.
17:31But, Lana,
17:32this is dangerous.
17:33If this audience sees steak,
17:35they'll come right up here after it.
17:36Oh, I don't know.
17:37They've seen ham all evening
17:38and you're still here.
17:51Right now, I'm vacant.
17:56Bob enlisted
17:57Hollywood's brightest stars
17:59to support the men
18:00and women in uniform.
18:20Thank you, buddy Grable.
18:21Thank you, girls.
18:22Aren't they pretty?
18:23You'd think having beautiful girls
18:24around like that all the time
18:25would bother a fellow like me,
18:26but I'd really...
18:31Anyway, I want to thank that couple
18:32for waiting until after
18:33the number was over
18:34before coming in.
18:35That's for...
18:36Say, unless my recognition
18:37signals deceive me,
18:38it's that famous couple
18:40from 79 Whistful Vista,
18:42River McGee and Molly.
18:49You go right on with the show,
18:50Mr. Hope.
18:51We don't want to interrupt.
18:52If this thing gets too much
18:53for you, bud,
18:54just call on me.
18:55What can you do, son,
18:56besides not straighten out
18:57a closet?
18:59I do card tricks,
19:01play the mandolin.
19:02I can master a ceremony
19:03as good as anybody.
19:04Dan?
19:05No, I'll sit this one out.
19:08Don't you get it, Molly?
19:09He says...
19:09Ain't funny, McGee.
19:13Well, I'm doing my radio show
19:14at Sunset and Vine,
19:16and the producer said
19:18they want you down
19:18at March Field next week.
19:20And I said,
19:21what's March Field?
19:21He said,
19:22it's Air Force Base
19:23in Riverside.
19:24I said, why?
19:25He said, well,
19:26they just want you down there
19:27in a wonderful audience
19:28and tell them so.
19:28And the next week,
19:30I found myself on a bus
19:31with Francis Langford
19:32and Jerry Colonna
19:32and Skinny Ennis
19:33and the band,
19:34and we went down
19:35and did a show
19:35for these guys
19:36and they were so wonderful.
19:38I said, how long
19:39has this been going on?
19:40You know?
19:40They just lifted
19:41the whole scene
19:42and the next week
19:43we went down
19:44to San Diego
19:45Naval Base
19:45and then we went
19:46to Camp Pendleton
19:47and Camp Han
19:48and then in December
19:49the war started
19:50and then it became dramatic.
19:52So we did five straight years
19:54all around the world
19:55just doing shows
19:56for troops, you know?
19:57And it's the greatest thing
19:59that ever happened to me
20:00because it's just wonderful.
20:03A&E's biography
20:04of Bob Hope
20:05will continue
20:06in a moment.
20:08An aging actress
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22:40Biography returns
22:41to our profile
22:42of entertainment
22:43legend Bob Hope.
22:50In movies
22:51both with and without
22:52being,
22:53Bob had become
22:54one of the top
22:55box office stars
22:56in America
22:56by the end
22:57of the 40s.
23:00Perhaps the quintessential
23:01Hope film
23:02is the 1947
23:03comedy classic
23:04My Favorite Brunette.
23:06It showcases
23:07the trademark qualities
23:08of Bob Hope
23:09audiences have come
23:10to love.
23:12As a kiddie photographer
23:13who would rather be
23:14a dashing private eye,
23:16Bob epitomizes
23:18the average Joe
23:19who finds himself
23:20in over his head.
23:26Watch the birdie!
23:27Watch the birdie!
23:29There you are.
23:30Another masterpiece.
23:32Ronnie Jackson,
23:33Private Eye.
23:34What I didn't see
23:35was the small print
23:36underneath.
23:37Rest in peace.
23:41Yeah, well,
23:41don't worry
23:42a pretty little head
23:42about it, baby.
23:43You catching a rattler
23:44for shy right now?
23:45Hi, Sam.
23:48What's on your mind, Ronnie?
23:49I mean, look, Sam,
23:50it came today,
23:51license and everything.
23:52Now can I be your partner?
23:53I told you before,
23:55stick to watching the birdie
23:56and you'll die of old age.
23:57Oh, yeah,
23:57but I was cut out
23:58for this kind of life.
23:59All my life,
24:00I wanted to be
24:00a hard-boiled detective
24:01like Humphrey Bogart
24:02or Dick Powell
24:03or even Alan Ladd.
24:06Madame la Baroness
24:06is in the living room.
24:08Oh.
24:08Shall I announce you?
24:09Never mind,
24:09I'll take it from here.
24:10May I help you
24:11with your open code?
24:12Yeah.
24:14Great screen villains
24:15such as Peter Lorre
24:17repeatedly outwit
24:18Bob's on-screen naivete.
24:22Very amusing.
24:25For here beside you
24:29I'm forever one
24:35I'm not here
24:37Despite his constant ogling
24:39of his female co-stars,
24:40Bob Hope got more laughs
24:42than leading ladies.
24:44Who won't be beside you
24:50Till there's no more time
25:00Quick, quick.
25:02First, I must know this.
25:04Are you a man
25:04who is afraid of danger?
25:06No, you can get
25:06as close as you like.
25:08Baby, we're in this together.
25:09I'm with you
25:10till my dying breath.
25:11Please, you mustn't.
25:12Yeah,
25:12better not leave
25:13any fingerprints.
25:14Stinking out, stranger?
25:15In the movies
25:18Bob worked with a
25:20bravado matador strut
25:23But we knew
25:25the audience
25:26that
25:30underneath that bravado
25:32and underneath
25:33that strut
25:36lurked a coward.
25:39We laughed at him
25:41because we identified him
25:43because most of us
25:44are cowards.
25:45Ronnie,
25:48I think you're
25:49a very brave man.
25:50I know a sniveling card
25:52when I see one.
25:54How you sniff?
25:55But I've no one else
25:57to turn to.
25:58Won't you help me?
25:59No.
26:01Please.
26:02Oh, no, you don't.
26:03What kind of a sucker
26:04do you take me for?
26:05Just because you're a girl
26:07and I'm a boy
26:08and you're throwing
26:09those big blue eyes at me
26:10and you let me
26:11put my arms around you
26:12and you let me
26:13hold you close,
26:14even closer,
26:15you think you can get me
26:16to do anything you want?
26:22What do you want, baby?
26:23And I want to thank you
26:24for saving my life.
26:26Oh, it was nothing.
26:27And I did it.
26:28I knew I had it in me.
26:29Hope's continual optimism
26:31gave him his universal appeal.
26:33Yeah, that's it.
26:34Ronnie.
26:34And sometimes,
26:35private eye.
26:35Even the girl.
26:36Oh, Ronnie.
26:37No.
26:37I think you'd better stick
26:38to taking baby pictures.
26:40Oh, I forgot to tell the executor.
26:42It's all off.
26:43Harry.
26:44It's all off.
26:46It's all off.
26:50Yes.
26:59Well, he'll take any kind
27:00of a part.
27:12The guys didn't feel threatened.
27:14They could bring
27:14their best girlfriends
27:15to see a Bob Hope picture
27:18because the laughs
27:20mitigated the threat
27:22to be liked by
27:24the guys
27:26and the gals.
27:30Well, I hear from
27:31we don't cotton to folks
27:32what cotton to other folks
27:33gals that don't cotton
27:34to folks that cotton to them.
27:36That's cotton talk, see?
27:38I apologize, mister.
27:41Oh, you do?
27:42Well, then beat it
27:43the whole kit and caboodle of you.
27:45That's caboodle talk.
27:51I love coffee.
27:52I love cream.
27:52Here comes the captain.
27:53Another team.
27:54Yahoo!
27:55Yahoo!
27:58Help!
27:58Where are you?
27:59Up here, Junior.
28:01Up here.
28:01Don't go away.
28:02I'll be right there.
28:08Why don't you come over here?
28:09I just met a bee
28:10that wants to tell us
28:11all about the birds.
28:18I didn't aim to be late,
28:19but I was busy.
28:20I was sashaying my mavericks,
28:22ran in my stray buckboards
28:23till I was plum horn swoggled.
28:26By the time I got to my car,
28:28some plum had done
28:29swoggled my horn.
28:30I loved them.
28:31I enjoyed them.
28:32I hopped a lot of stuff from them.
28:34You know, we all stole them.
28:37In the late 40s,
28:38the golden age of radio
28:40was fading.
28:41The American audience
28:42was tuning into a new media,
28:44television.
28:45And Bob was there
28:46literally at its birth.
28:48Bob joked that he felt
28:49compelled to get into TV
28:51before Milton Berle
28:52used up all his material.
28:53This is my third.
28:55I've had three shots
28:55on television.
28:57Fortunately, they all miss me,
28:58but I must say,
29:00I must say,
29:01I'm getting used to this racket.
29:02I'm beginning to like it.
29:03I mean it.
29:04With the camera angles
29:05and the makeup,
29:07the lighting
29:08and all the technique,
29:09it's something.
29:10You know, it takes time.
29:11After all,
29:12Faye Emerson
29:12wasn't built in a day.
29:15I was with Bob
29:16when we made the transfer
29:18from television,
29:20from radio to television.
29:21And in those days,
29:22all television
29:23came out of New York.
29:24And so we would go
29:27about once a month
29:28to New York
29:29and we would do
29:30a television show.
29:31We did.
29:31And he only did specials.
29:34I'm honest,
29:35decent, loyal,
29:35upright,
29:36and true blue.
29:37I'm kind to animals,
29:38help old ladies
29:39across the street,
29:39and I don't drink,
29:40smoke, swear, or gamble.
29:42I'm known hereabouts
29:42as Lonesome Tex.
29:46When I was six years old,
29:47I shot a man.
29:48When I was eight years old,
29:50I shot another man.
29:52When I was 12 years old,
29:53love came into my life.
29:55So I shot a woman.
30:00Is he gone?
30:02I'd like you to meet a man
30:03who's made a tremendous
30:04contribution to the
30:05Makeup Artist Ball
30:06this year,
30:06one of Hollywood's
30:07most outstanding
30:08and versatile stars,
30:09my good friend
30:10James Cagney,
30:11right here.
30:24Thank you, Robert.
30:25And I also want to thank
30:26the makeup people
30:27for inviting me here tonight.
30:28See, without them,
30:29I couldn't be here.
30:30Just what you're looking at
30:31is all makeup.
30:33The real me is home in bed.
30:35Your good friend Bob Hope
30:37was here about 10 minutes ago,
30:39and since then,
30:39I think he's played
30:40two army camps,
30:41a couple of benefits,
30:41and a round of golf.
30:42Here he comes again,
30:43America's number one comedian
30:44and goodwill ambassador,
30:45Bob Hope.
30:58Oh, who'll sign
31:01his commitment papers with me?
31:04Let's put Skitch Away Week.
31:06What the comedians
31:07of Bob's generation
31:09had and still have,
31:12in contrast to some
31:13of today's,
31:14even the best
31:14of today's younger ones,
31:15is a certain air
31:17of authority.
31:18You knew that a professional
31:19was even walking on stage
31:21before the show started.
31:23That had nothing to do
31:24with the fact of age,
31:25because Bob,
31:27like everybody else,
31:27was born at the age of zero
31:29and went through
31:30all the standard numbers.
31:32But when those guys,
31:33the Bob Hope generation,
31:35Milton, Danny Thomas,
31:36whoever,
31:37when they were 30 and 40,
31:38they had that air
31:39of authority,
31:40which today,
31:41as I say,
31:41many of the 30s
31:42and 40-year-olds
31:42do not have.
31:43You really do set
31:44a fantastic pace.
31:45You always seem
31:45to be on the move.
31:46Come to think of it,
31:47you're the only thing
31:47I know that's faster
31:48than buffering.
31:49Don't you ever get
31:49any rest at all, man?
31:51Pardon?
31:52I say,
31:52don't you ever get
31:53any rest?
31:53Oh, yes.
31:54Last week,
31:54I was on the Como show.
31:57Bob has these
31:57wonderful little secrets.
31:59He has trained himself
32:00to fall asleep
32:01with these tiny
32:02little catnaps.
32:03He can sleep
32:03sitting up,
32:04standing up.
32:05He can sleep
32:05sitting on a pile
32:07of drums
32:08and get a wonderful
32:10little catnap.
32:12I share that ability
32:13with Bob to...
32:14In fact,
32:15I just did it
32:15right there
32:16for your very eyes.
32:17One of Bob's
32:18favorite co-stars
32:19on the silver screen
32:20was Lucille Ball.
32:21They brought their
32:22movie magic
32:23and enduring friendship
32:24to the small screen,
32:26often as guest star
32:27for each other,
32:28as on this
32:29Bob Hope show.
32:29You know,
32:30I knew Lucy
32:31long before Desi did.
32:32In fact,
32:32I've often wondered
32:33what would happen
32:34if she married me
32:35instead of Desi.
32:36What would it be like
32:37if I were the husband
32:38and I love Lucy?
32:40Let's see, huh?
32:41I know one thing.
32:42She wouldn't be doing
32:42those crazy things
32:43if I were her husband.
32:46What do you got,
32:47a hollow clipper?
32:49Now, don't eat too fast.
32:50I'm tired of burping you.
32:55Ricky, baby!
33:01Oh, honey,
33:02I'm so glad you're home.
33:04I missed you terribly
33:05today, darling.
33:06The house was so lonesome
33:07without you, sweetheart.
33:09You're the most
33:10wonderful husband
33:11in the whole world.
33:12Did you miss me today, Ricky?
33:15See?
33:15Yeah.
33:17It was a marvelous
33:18learning experience
33:20working with Bob Hope
33:21because you learned
33:21more about comedy
33:23and basic comedy
33:24and how to tell jokes
33:25in any form
33:26from him
33:26than from anybody
33:27that I can think of.
33:28The chemistry
33:29was great.
33:30You know,
33:30the comedy
33:31was so much fun
33:32and he put me
33:33under contract
33:34for seven years
33:35and I did specials,
33:36you know,
33:37his NBC specials
33:38with him.
33:39I did some more,
33:40I think,
33:41Chrysler Theaters
33:41and several movies
33:42and it was like
33:43going to the greatest
33:46university of comedy.
33:48I learned so much
33:49about timing from him.
33:52A&E's biography
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33:54in a moment.
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36:08Biography returns
36:09to our profile
36:10of entertainment legend
36:12Bob Hope.
36:15As frequent host
36:16of the Academy Awards telecasts
36:18from the 40s
36:19to the 70s,
36:20his favorite running gag
36:21is centered on the one award
36:23he never did win,
36:24the Oscar.
36:25I think that was one
36:26of the great running jokes
36:27in Hollywood history,
36:29the equivalent of Jack Benny
36:30being 39 years old.
36:33There's so much politics
36:35in these awards.
36:35Imagine nominating
36:36Marlon Brando,
36:37Gary Cooper and Rock Hudson
36:39for the Best Actor Award
36:40and leaving me out.
36:42So what do you think of that?
36:47Well, that makes it unanimous.
36:51In 1987,
36:53Hollywood was 100 years old.
36:55Her royalty gathered memorabilia
36:58for a time capsule.
36:59I finally get my hands
37:00on a real Oscar
37:01and I have to lock it away
37:03for 100 years.
37:05Bob's easygoing manner
37:06and quick wit
37:07made him a much-sought-after MC
37:09for beauty contests
37:11and variety shows
37:12of all kinds.
37:14Would you mind
37:15kneeling for a minute?
37:16Kneeling where?
37:17Right here.
37:18Really?
37:20So that I might night you.
37:22Robert of Hope?
37:23I haven't done this
37:23since I was in the Paramount office.
37:25Oh, yeah.
37:29I don't know how I'm going to sit.
37:30The other way around.
37:31Oh, yes.
37:33There's a bad angle for me.
37:37Just kidding.
37:38Don't stay over there.
37:39Stay over there.
37:42Robert of Hope?
37:42I'm a little mad with this, huh?
37:45I love the grand-exalted
37:48apple polisher
37:49of all the world.
37:50Oh, no!
37:52Oh!
37:53Well, somebody help me up.
37:54Don't stand there.
37:59Thank you, Queen.
38:02Is that finished
38:03your ceremony?
38:04Well, right now
38:05you've got the script
38:05out of the way.
38:06Come here.
38:06Let's talk it over.
38:08I want to tell you
38:09that I saw your picture
38:10in the Washington paper
38:13and with Mr. Barclay
38:15and our wonderful
38:16vice president
38:17and I thought maybe
38:18that today you'd like
38:19to talk to a younger man,
38:21huh?
38:21Oh, yes.
38:23Now you really
38:24put me on the spot.
38:25You're from Iceland?
38:26I am.
38:26And it's about time
38:27you thaw out.
38:28So I thought...
38:28I did yesterday.
38:30You did?
38:32I thought that after all
38:33I did make the trip
38:34down here from Washington
38:35and I've seen
38:37this kind of country
38:38before.
38:39I read the account
38:40in the papers
38:40of what happened
38:41to the vice president
38:42and although I'm...
38:43I haven't any official
38:45office or anything...
38:47That's all right.
38:49Okay.
38:51Is that the best
38:52you can do?
38:54Look at all the people.
39:01We may turn this
39:02into a baked apple festival.
39:06You like to get
39:07in pictures?
39:09I can fix it for you.
39:12Of course,
39:13you won't be a star
39:13right away.
39:16Bob paved the way
39:17for the Carsons
39:19and the Jay Leno's
39:21to do the topical
39:23political joke
39:27and it was very,
39:28very important
39:30and Bob was one
39:31of the first to do it.
39:32I don't remember
39:33anybody else
39:33doing it before Bob.
39:36Boy,
39:36they're really
39:37campaigning,
39:38aren't they?
39:38And the things
39:39the candidates say
39:40about each other
39:40while you think
39:41they were actors.
39:42I've never heard
39:42such words.
39:45Nixon says
39:46every family
39:46will have two cars,
39:47three TV sets
39:48and only work
39:49four days a week.
39:50But Stevenson's
39:51gone him one better.
39:52He's trying to fix it
39:52so the Republicans
39:53won't have to work
39:54at all.
39:55Well, how about that?
40:04How about that?
40:05A four-day week
40:05with three days off.
40:06Imagine three days
40:07of playtime.
40:08Our next Secretary
40:09of Labor
40:10may be
40:10Zsa Zsa Gabor.
40:13Yes, Bob was
40:14certainly one of the
40:14first.
40:14Will Rogers, of course,
40:15had done that
40:16long before him
40:17and if you go back
40:18into the last century
40:19there were people
40:20like Artemis Ward
40:21who would occasionally
40:21comment on the news
40:23of the day
40:23and so from time
40:24to time
40:25in his lectures
40:25at least did Mark Twain.
40:27So we can't say
40:28that Bob created that
40:29but he became
40:29the chief exponent of it
40:31and years later
40:32Johnny Carson
40:33would do the same thing
40:34and do it very much
40:35in the Bob Hope style.
40:36Since the president
40:37got that raise
40:38you know
40:38we all have to keep
40:39our noses
40:39to the grindstone
40:42and with Margaret's
40:43singing lessons
40:43that all costs money
40:44you know.
40:46Are you rolling?
40:49Wish I was.
40:52Ladies and gentlemen
40:53I'm very thrilled
40:53to be here in Washington.
40:55I'm here every year
40:56to be near my money
40:57and I want to say
40:58that
41:04we'll be playing
41:05in such a wonderful
41:06foursome here
41:07with General Bradley
41:09Dr. Middlecoff
41:10and the dentist
41:12of course
41:13this is the first time
41:14I've played
41:14with a dentist
41:14I understand
41:15that when he gets
41:16on the green
41:16the putt
41:17he looks at the hole
41:17and says
41:17open a little wider
41:18please.
41:26Back you fools
41:27his charm
41:28and popularity
41:29allowed him
41:30to throw barbs
41:31at public figures
41:32one day
41:33and share a game
41:34of golf
41:34with him
41:35the next.
41:45Golf
41:46has always been
41:46Hope's favorite
41:47form of relaxation
41:48a game that
41:50despite his clowning
41:51of course
41:52he took very seriously.
41:54That was putting
41:55I hope to tell you
41:56who says Bob Hope
41:57who says it
41:58in Phantom Mind
41:58as a Duke smiles.
42:02Bob receives
42:03the Golf Writers
42:04Association plaque
42:05which prompts
42:06more hijinks
42:07from the irrepressible
42:08Mr. Hope.
42:09Come to Papa
42:10he knows best.
42:12Though maintaining
42:13a breakneck schedule
42:14no one has been
42:16more generous
42:16with time
42:17talent
42:18and money
42:18than Bob Hope.
42:20I'm honored
42:21to be the chairman
42:21of the Mailman's
42:22March
42:22in memory
42:23of Eleanor Roosevelt.
42:24She was one
42:25of the world's
42:25great ladies.
42:26These are our
42:27two poster kits
42:28for the Easter Seal
42:29campaign.
42:30This is
42:31are you Ronnie?
42:32No.
42:32I'm Ronnie.
42:34That's a pretty good
42:35guess wasn't it?
42:36Well
42:36and your name
42:37is what?
42:38Ronnie.
42:39You're Ronnie
42:39and you're
42:41Ronnie.
42:42And you're
42:43Bonnie.
42:44Bonnie.
42:45Bonnie.
42:46They're both
42:46Bonnie.
42:47You're putting me
42:47on aren't you?
42:49I think you're
42:50having me.
42:51I'm in
42:51you're cutting me
42:52up.
42:52I'm sitting
42:53between two
42:53comics here.
42:54And this is
42:55Miss Kay Bar
42:56that has done
42:58a wonderful
42:58lot of work
42:59for the Easter
42:59Seal campaign
43:00all these years.
43:01And we just
43:02presented the
43:03president
43:04with this book
43:05of Easter
43:06Seal stamps
43:07from the past
43:0830 years.
43:09And the boys
43:10went in and
43:11stood on their
43:11heads for him.
43:14Among his
43:14many honors
43:15was a gold medal
43:16from Congress
43:17presented by
43:18President Kennedy
43:19in 1963
43:21declaring Bob
43:22Hope
43:23America's
43:23most prized
43:24ambassador
43:25of goodwill.
43:27It's been
43:27one of the
43:28rarest honors
43:29given to Americans
43:30and it's a great
43:31pleasure for me
43:32on behalf of
43:32the Congress
43:33to present this
43:34to you.
43:35I've got a splendid
43:36picture of you.
43:41I hope I
43:42have a chance
43:42to present it
43:43to you
43:44on behalf
43:44of the people
43:44of the United States.
43:45Thank you
43:46very much
43:46Mr. President.
43:48That's very nice.
43:48I suggested
43:49to Senator
43:50Simon
43:50that I should
43:51have had
43:51a nose job.
43:54But he said
43:55there would have
43:55been less gold.
44:00I actually
44:01don't like to
44:02tell jokes
44:03about a thing
44:04like this
44:04because it's
44:05one of the
44:06nicest things
44:06that's ever
44:07happened to me
44:07and I feel
44:08very humble.
44:10Although I think
44:11I have the
44:11strength of character
44:12to fight it
44:13I want to say
44:17that I also
44:17played in the
44:18South Pacific
44:18while the
44:19president was
44:19there
44:21and he was
44:22a very gay
44:22carefree young
44:23man at that
44:24time.
44:24Of course
44:24all you have to
44:25worry about
44:25then was the
44:26enemy.
44:32America owes
44:33a great deal
44:33to Britain
44:35the common
44:35law
44:36our language
44:37and many
44:38of our
44:38political
44:39institutions
44:40but we are
44:41particularly
44:42indebted to
44:43Britain
44:43for giving us
44:44Bob Hope
44:46not only because
44:47he is a great
44:47humorist who has
44:48given joy to
44:49millions of his
44:50fellow citizens
44:50and to others
44:51throughout the
44:51world
44:52but because he
44:53is a fine
44:54human being
44:55who has
44:57never failed
44:57to respond
44:58in helping a
45:00good cause
45:00wherever it is
45:01any place in
45:02America or in
45:03the world
45:04we are proud
45:06to claim him
45:06as an American
45:08citizen
45:09and I am proud
45:10to know him
45:11as my friend
45:14in a moment
45:15Bob Hope's
45:16famous USO
45:17shows
45:18stay with us
45:20why take another
45:21cold and flu
45:22season lying
45:23down
45:24at the first
45:25sign of a
45:25colder flu
45:26take Choracetan
45:27it relieves
45:28your runny nose
45:28congestion and
45:29fever fast
45:30and even helps
45:31stop them from
45:31getting worse
45:32or C and D
45:33the sooner
45:34the better
45:35here daddy
45:36oh uh
45:38honey
45:39I can't wear
45:39that tie
45:40I'm an insurance
45:41man
45:41but it's
45:42Wausau insurance
45:42right
45:43you always say
45:44Wausau isn't like
45:45other insurance
45:46honey
45:46you do say that
45:47I know I say that
45:48business insurance
45:51when I
45:52pension
45:54casualty
45:55and proper
45:56proper tea
45:57honey
45:57mmm
45:58nice tie
46:00Bob
46:05today
46:05there should not
46:06be a place
46:07where your business
46:08plan ends
46:08and your information
46:09strategy begins
46:10the two
46:11should be one
46:12IBM services
46:14can help you
46:15pull them together
46:16we have management
46:17consultants
46:17to help you
46:18decide what to do
46:19systems consultants
46:20to show you how
46:21technical experts
46:23to do the job
46:24for you
46:24even an IBM
46:26organization
46:26who run
46:27your systems
46:28there's never
46:29been so much
46:29help from one
46:30place before
46:31there's never
46:32been a better
46:32time to do
46:33business
46:33with IBM
46:45finally someone
46:47understands all
46:48pain is not
46:49the same
46:51introducing new
46:52aspirin-free
46:53Bayer Select
46:55yes
46:56aspirin-free
47:01Bayer Select
47:02not one
47:03but five
47:04different
47:04aspirin-free
47:05products
47:05for five
47:06different
47:06kinds of
47:07pain
47:07sinus
47:08headache
47:09night time
47:10menstrual
47:11and arthritis
47:11pain
47:12because all
47:13pain
47:13is not
47:14the same
47:20it's a deadly
47:21serious game
47:22of hide
47:23and seek
47:23that the
47:24New York
47:24Daily News
47:25called
47:25the kind
47:26of docu-thriller
47:27you won't
47:27be able
47:28to resist
47:28Spies
47:29is terrific
47:30a flat-out
47:31winner
47:31raised the
47:32Chicago Tribune
47:33from industrial
47:34espionage
47:34to assassination
47:35this is the
47:36covert realm
47:37of the
47:38Shadow Warriors
47:38and their
47:39next target
47:40could be you
47:41no one
47:42who watches
47:42the series
47:43will ever
47:43again feel
47:44the nation
47:45is secure
47:45Spies
47:47following
47:47American
47:48Justice
47:48Wednesday
47:48on A&D
47:51Biography
47:52returns to
47:53our profile
47:54of entertainment
47:54legend
47:55Bob Hope
47:57over the
47:57decades
47:58Hope has
47:58remained
47:59faithful
47:59bringing
48:00home
48:00to the
48:01service
48:01men
48:02and
48:02women
48:02for the
48:03holidays
48:03I think
48:04that Bob
48:04Hope
48:05expresses
48:06and feels
48:07what most
48:08Americans feel
48:09which is
48:10that
48:11once you're
48:12involved
48:12in a war
48:14then it's
48:14the job
48:15of the people
48:15in the country
48:16to support
48:16the fighting
48:16men
48:17Bob put
48:18himself
48:18on the
48:18line
48:18put his
48:19life
48:19on the
48:19line
48:20to
48:21entertain
48:21their
48:22kids
48:23who went
48:24out
48:24and put
48:24their
48:25lives
48:26on the
48:27line
48:27I did
48:28probably
48:2910 or
48:3012 of
48:30his
48:30Christmas
48:31tours
48:31starting
48:32in I
48:33think
48:33in 1956
48:35and we
48:36went a lot
48:37of interesting
48:37places
48:38Bob had
48:38promised
48:39Dolores
48:40that wherever
48:41he was
48:41on Christmas
48:42Eve he would
48:42go to
48:42midnight mass
48:43and he
48:43always did
48:44and all the
48:45years that I
48:45was with him
48:46and instead
48:47of going to
48:47the pulpit
48:48like priests
48:48normally did
48:49in those days
48:50and still do
48:51he walked
48:52down the
48:52aisle
48:53and in his
48:54flowing robes
48:54he walked
48:55up and down
48:55the aisle
48:56and he was
48:56giving this
48:57sermon
48:57and Hope
48:57turned to me
48:58and he said
48:58boy this guy
48:59has really
49:00got a thing
49:00going
49:00that's pretty
49:01good
49:01I've never
49:02seen anybody
49:02work like that
49:03and I leaned
49:04over to Bob
49:05and I said
49:05he has to
49:05work here
49:06Bob
49:06we took
49:07his PA
49:07system
49:08we were
49:09the first
49:11people
49:11the first
49:12group of
49:12entertainers
49:13ever to
49:13go to
49:13Vietnam
49:15and I
49:15went with
49:16him and
49:16that was
49:16very very
49:17scary
49:17it was
49:18frightening
49:19touring
49:19because we
49:20really were
49:21into unknown
49:21territory
49:22but you
49:23felt if you
49:24were with
49:24Bob Hope
49:24what was
49:25going to
49:26happen to
49:26you
49:26here was
49:26a man
49:27who'd
49:27been through
49:27almost
49:28every war
49:29and
49:30had come
49:31through
49:31at unscathed
49:32and you
49:32really felt
49:33that the
49:33army
49:33wouldn't
49:33put
49:34Bob Hope
49:35in a place
49:35where he
49:36was going
49:36to get
49:36shot
49:36wrong
49:37I mean
49:38we did
49:38a couple
49:39of times
49:39get out
49:40of our
49:40planes
49:40and find
49:41that they
49:41had bullet
49:42holes in
49:42them
49:42I've been
49:43in the worst
49:44situations
49:45in the world
49:46with him
49:46we've been
49:47shot at
49:47we've been
49:48down in
49:49enemy country
49:50we've been
49:51in disasters
49:51we've been
49:52land made
49:53every kind
49:53of a landing
49:56on aircraft
49:57carriers
49:57and take
49:59off some
49:59decks
50:00and hospital
50:02planes
50:03and hospital
50:03ships
50:04and that
50:05man
50:05is fearless
50:06Bob
50:07whenever he
50:08went on one
50:08of these
50:08trips
50:09had one
50:10focus
50:10and his
50:11focus
50:11was
50:13talking to
50:14the troops
50:14entertaining
50:15the troops
50:16we've been
50:16to england
50:17to germany
50:17then to creek
50:18then to thailand
50:19vietnam
50:19korea
50:20and alaska
50:20and we're
50:21going to keep
50:21on going
50:22until we
50:22find howard
50:23hughes
50:25his whole
50:26point was
50:27there to
50:27raise their
50:28morale
50:29they said
50:29why do you
50:29make these
50:30trips
50:30i want to
50:31tell you why
50:32i know
50:32everybody
50:32on the stage
50:33makes these
50:34trips
50:34because of
50:35you and
50:35the way
50:36you are
50:38at the end
50:39of each show
50:39we would
50:40sing silent
50:41night
50:41and we would
50:42ask everybody
50:43in the audience
50:44to join us
50:44to sing
50:45silent night
50:47and i'll tell
50:48you it brought
50:48tears to my
50:49eyes every
50:50time that it
50:50happened
50:50because 5,000
50:52troops or
50:52more sitting
50:55on the ground
50:55in danger
50:57uncomfortable
50:58singing silent
50:59night with
51:00smiles on their
51:01faces really
51:01meant something
51:02about christmas
51:03and i meant
51:03something about
51:04the united
51:04states
51:06have a great
51:07christmas and
51:08we pray that
51:08you'll be home
51:09soon
51:09i couldn't get
51:13up in the
51:13morning without
51:14something to do
51:15my god
51:16you know
51:17there's so
51:17many
51:18laughs around
51:19when you're
51:20doing something
51:21and it's
51:21interesting
51:22and as long
51:23as i feel
51:23good
51:23i'm gonna
51:24do that
51:25i really think
51:26he's done
51:26more for more
51:27americans than
51:28any other
51:29single human
51:31being in the
51:31history of this
51:32country
51:32he's given
51:33up what
51:3440 years of
51:35his life
51:35every december
51:36to go and
51:37visit the
51:38troops
51:44but it's bob
51:46hope as a
51:46personality
51:47it's bob
51:48hope hosting
51:48the oscars
51:49it's bob
51:50hope above
51:50all traveling
51:51all around
51:52the world
51:52so tirelessly
51:53so indefatigably
51:54for the
51:55uso
51:55entertaining
51:56american
51:57troops
51:57and genuinely
51:59expressing i
52:00think the
52:00basic patriotism
52:02the desire to
52:03serve the
52:04country that
52:04most americans
52:05feel bob is
52:07a special seat
52:11in the history
52:12of our country
52:14in the 20th
52:14century
52:15somewhere he's
52:16going to be
52:17mentioned
52:18where a lot
52:19of us
52:19are not going
52:21to be mentioned
52:21he's sort of
52:22the irving
52:23berlin of comedy
52:24or the john
52:25wayne of comedy
52:26the coca-cola
52:27of comedy
52:27whatever
52:28he's a national
52:30institution
52:30he only fired
52:31me i believe
52:32seven times
52:33in all
52:34and so
52:37he said
52:38to me
52:38why did you
52:40tell
52:40why do you
52:41tell people
52:42that i fired
52:43you seven
52:44times
52:44that's not
52:45nice
52:45and i said
52:46well you
52:47did fire
52:48me seven
52:48times
52:49maybe more
52:50he said
52:51i don't think
52:52more
52:52he said
52:53but you
52:54shouldn't
52:54say that
52:55to people
52:56carol
52:57brunette's
52:58people
52:58her writers
52:59all say
53:00these wonderful
53:01things about
53:02her
53:02and i said
53:03oh if i
53:04worked for
53:04carol brunette
53:05i'd say
53:05the same
53:06thing
53:07he never
53:08he always
53:09broke up
53:09with that
53:10he had
53:11he had
53:11a terrific
53:12sense of
53:12humor
53:12while firing
53:14me
53:14and i hope
53:15that when i
53:15mention my
53:16name
53:16they smile
53:16a little bit
53:19he has kept
53:20on going
53:20he says
53:21because he
53:22enjoys so
53:23much
53:23the warmth
53:24and acceptance
53:25of an audience
53:31you know
53:32thank you
53:32very much
53:33thank you
53:34boy
53:34this is a
53:34marathon
53:34isn't it
53:35that's why
53:36that's what
53:36i like about
53:37tv
53:38it's the only
53:38place where
53:3920 million
53:39people can
53:40watch you
53:40have a
53:40nervous
53:40breakdown
53:42you know
53:42the iron
53:42curtain
53:43boys
53:43thought they'd
53:44thrown a
53:44sunday punch
53:45when they
53:45backed us
53:46up to
53:46puissant
53:46but they
53:47forgot one
53:48little detail
53:49ever since
53:50plymouth rock
53:51americans have
53:52had something
53:52to fight for
53:53and yes
53:54die for
53:54if necessary
53:56it's 10,000
53:57miles from
53:58west
53:58chad
53:58to juan
53:58san
53:59but the
54:00flame of
54:00freedom
54:00in the
54:01human breast
54:02defies all
54:02distance
54:03and brings
54:04men together
54:04in a fight
54:05for the
54:06common ideal
54:07of free
54:08and democratic
54:09world
54:09under god
54:25the
54:36change
54:37and
54:37and
54:39on
54:40here
54:54meet
55:10Bob Hope's famous joke vault is a kind of national treasury of humor.
55:15But it's Hope himself, after a lifetime spent performing in the midst of battle zones,
55:20who qualifies as a national treasure.
55:23Hope's gift for boosting troop morale didn't go unnoticed by enemy forces.
55:27For example, during the first of his nine tours of Vietnam,
55:31a powerful bomb went off across from his hotel.
55:34Captured Viet Cong papers later confirmed that Hope was indeed a target
55:38and only escaped the blast because of faulty timing devices.
55:43Of course, when it came to timing, the Viet Cong should have known better than ever to try to outdo
55:48Bob Hope.
55:49Thanks for the memories, and thanks for joining us on Biography.
55:52For A&E, I'm Peter Graves.
56:08This is Michael Palin.
56:09Join me on a fantastic journey to the very ends of the earth,
56:13poll to poll, Sunday, here on A&E.
56:17Now stay tuned for Say Amen Somebody, next on A&E.
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