Bob Hope TV Salute--Lucille Ball, Jane Russell, Dorothy Lamour, Rosemary Clooney, Rhonda Fleming

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] like set today we are on a road to Hollywood for a very special reason and everybody here is so excited and so talented and and so beautiful that I'm just gonna name them in alphabetical order and with just a tiny little description like Frances the first one is a redhead Lucille Ball [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we have a blonde Rosemary Clooney [Music] we have another redhead Rhonda Fleming is [Applause] [Music] now we have a genuine honest-to-goodness brunette Dorothy Lamour [Music] we have another genuine honest-to-goodness brunette Jane Russell is Ritter [Music] there's a lot of honest genuine brunettes around if you are a movie buff you all know that those lovely and talented women have something very special in common they were all the leading ladies of a funny gentleman who has written a book the road to Hollywood mr. Bob [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see how different they are isn't it a nice day nice that's worth traveling across town for travels a lot you can come a lot further to see me you know that are you prepared for all the candid comments that are gonna be raised in your behalf or I have a feeling I'm a walking dartboard tonight I have that feeling no love what am I doing here with women's lib what am i doing no woman's women's love not women laughs yeah well you got the loves here I'll tell you okay we're gonna be right back on the road jolly well right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I have to confess something to you the book is brand new and I have not had a chance to read it it's quite impressive looking so I'm just gonna ask you a lot of questions that may sound dumb for somebody who wrote a book the road to Hollywood my 40 a love affair with the movies Bob Hope and Bob Thomas knob chimes oh he's so busy it's a you're lucky you can get him you know he did the Disney book you know Abbott and Costello he's around grabbing more money oh he's a nice man Liz Ray wrote a book she's back on her feet again [Applause] [Music] no I meant there's so much money what is that what screen this audience I think we are isn't that something yeah were you improper audiences huh these people live i cured you they're beautiful people were you impressed with Hollywood when you first came out here not at all not at all I was mad at Hollywood because I made a 1930 I went through here on the Orpheum time I was four years old and and I elbows Berg my writer told our friend the bill pearlberg said watch this guy because he thinks I was fairly funny and I made a test for overt path a and path a news remember the rooster on the top of the balloon Wow Wow here on me yeah anyway I made a test and I thought my hair they are they've got me you know God's gift to Hollywood and I went to San Diego played the orphan came back and I called a pearlberg and I said how about the test he said you want to see it and just by that reading alone I knew that I'd had it you know and I said yeah I said we'll go out the path they it'll be in one of the studios and I went out there and I went to the doorman said what's your name I said Bob Hope he said yeah okay objection number four I was all alone i sat there oh and I came on the screen and my nose came on the screen about 20 minutes before I did i sat there looking at this thing and I saw this test now this was a surefire bit that I did from vaudeville that I knew was great you know and and there I was dying up there you know no laughs or anything naturally and I looked at the thing and when it finished I said the guy said you want to see it again I said no thank you I didn't know how to get out of the studio I want to climb over the wall I didn't want to go out the gate for fear somebody would stab me or something no terrible waste is all that film you would do one default routines that have been successful involve all right and you do them on it on it on a lot like that and the crew is not allowed to laugh if anybody on the crew laughs they had to do it all over some amount but now then that was 1930 and about I went into a show called Roberta and they started flirting with me would you come out to Hollywood and do a picture with Jack okay would you do a picture with Jack Haley Papa Bob and I said no no no I don't need it who needs I don't know who needs I was pouting you know for about seven years until he made me the right offer and I said say I was in a show called Ziegfeld Follies singing can't get started with you with when the redheaded showgirl who would later turned out to be he Vartan and they offered me a big broadcast you know 1930 well that was gonna ask you about that name 1937 with WC v WC Fields Oh what was he like the woman he was wild I'll tell you it was like a little like playing golf with Gleason you know who can remove the small you know alligator off your shirt just by breathing on you but he was wild fields he was really something else and no he you talk about ad-libbing they used to let the camera roll after a scene just for his ad-libs you know and the first time I saw him do it you know he said look at that jump we were on a boat and we're going across the Atlantic and there was an emergency thing alright he said everybody's jumping out with a boat the women and the children and the men are jumping too and they're kind of looking the little babies that throwing the little babies out look at their bow bow and he kept talking finally looked in the camera says they'll run out of film soon but he was something yeah funny they didn't have that terrible consciousness about budgets I mean people could add live and they could keep letting the film roll they wouldn't let you do but they were hoping you know to get something out of him that was extra in some jewels yeah yeah you got a theme song from that movie that was a big yeah saying a thing called Frank's that's the first thing I heard when I went to the studio I got offered Pasadena and I was a little on the muscle because I said I really don't need this town you know I've been in five shows on Broadway and I got mine I had a my eighty dollars saved up and I say I don't really need this town and I went over to Paramount and Billy Selwyn said you want to hear the song I'm gonna say and I said yeah and he took me in the music room and I heard thanks for the memory and I said yeah it's all I took it home to the Lars who she was at the Beverly Wilshire hotel I played it for us she said that'll sound like much to me that song kept me in pictures you know what well night I sang it was Shirley Ross yeah and Damon Runyon came out I was all right in the picture you know I just did a job a pedestrian job of a leading man and a couple of little scenes with Ben blue and Martha you know Martha Raye but they were they weren't gonna keep me on and Damon Runyon came out with a whole column and said our boy did it one of the greatest presentations of a song thanks for the memory and that thing that song kept me in Hollywood isn't and lovely when you got present-day Minh Runyon and Mark Helens you used to write these remember that yeah sure it you you did a a double take when you met your idol Charlie Chaplin yeah yeah tell them about that that's really stuff well you know I started in show business actually impersonating Chaplin and I actually walked by the firehouse and Cleveland you know with a little mustache and doing the whole bit you know and I loved him naturally like everybody else and I came out here in 1937 and 1939 I did a picture called cat in the canary with Paulette Goddard who was married to Chaplin you know you know I would they I'd thought they were just engaged along too they don't figure to bring it up here I think I don't think we ought to decide I just think series I just want to tell you no no I'm pretty sure they were married I'm right because I'm from Burbank Parcheesi is a felony now let me take [Applause] [Music] canary and I was out of Santa Anita Dolores now out there and we walked into the whatever they call the room you know upstairs and where the celebrities all hang out you know the green Mervyn Leroy was waiting there then and walked in there and here's Charlie Chaplin and Paulette you know and I just played real cool and he said how are you and I said fine nice to see you and he said you know I run the rushes every night you know and so until and so and so can you imagine me now I'm working where there's bride Oh and kinda what a kick I got out of that oh wait real cool no I met him a couple of times after that but you know be cool around something like that because I mean you always thought he was really appraising a little bit in 1927 I watched outside the night outside the 44th Street 3 Ron and in New York I stayed outside for two hours in the doorway just to watch him walk out and get in this car you know any when he went to Iowa I loved it I was looking through the book and you've made a lot of movies you really have sure you never got in high school is that really bug you yeah yeah I'm gonna have next year I'm gonna have Mickey Rooney bronzed and forget the whole [Applause] [Music] [Music] it's better than heaven Velvets go so beautiful just I'm gonna bring one of your leading ladies out with you and she recalls the first time she worked with you that you were a little nervous about the script does that sound familiar doesn't know well we can get the story from her here's Luci [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you start thank you Louie's fantasy bruja thank you very much that lovely yes then that kind of make it hot and that worth can we go now before we do something wrong yeah yeah you were worried about the script on the first film you did with BA but oh yeah we do have these problems don't we I do ask funny questions if you remember the last time you were on the show you complained about my questions no I don't remember well what was it really what you asked me I'm sorry I said that I in the opening just before I brought you out and it isn't important but I said that it isn't important then why go into it what was the first film you and Bob ever did together you and Bob Hope here sorrowful Jones wasn't it I think so right remembered what do you remember most about sorrowful Jones well I was in all first of all and I had taken the part because it was serious and I was assured that mr. hull thought it was a serious piece there was a remake of Little Miss marker which was one of the great great pictures and I was very anxious to work with Bob and terrified but it was a serious piece and it was you know when they told me about it they said Mr Hope was going to do the remake just the way it was and all that and then we got on the set and he would he he'll he was having a lot of conferences with his writers and I wasn't any part of them I was in my dressing room and whatnot and they came in with some changes and I said uh does mr. Hope know about these they said Oh naturally or you wouldn't be getting them and I said well these are jokes and in a very important scene and Bob doesn't even know what I'm talking about probably anyway true Bob don't you hit me I said but I don't want I don't want to do the scene with jokes it's a very important serious scene I said well now it's not that important mr. hope I said no oh no I said well then you go tell him I said all right I mean a little did I know I was walking into the Lions Den I had no idea and they just they couldn't believe that I said well all right I'll go in and talk to me and I rap rap rap mr. hold me I come in he said yes like right in I told him and he said that he looked just like that [Laughter] I said come in and lie down no [Applause] [Music] nice you look tired understanding yes June ah yes of course that's about that little story is that I wish we could make a few more sour for Jones yeah you didn't come around our way yes baby but it it was all the things that we put in this like Bing you know there's a how the road picture started we had a born white [Applause] [Music] No you mean a second time [Applause] you know that Bing and I used to get together every more not his first leading lady there was something beautiful thing called Hartman and Butler two guys that wrote picture called flight to Singapore you know and Bing and I used to get these scripts and my guys I was on radio at that time and I used to hand on the script they come in with these jokes and I get Bing in my room and say hey what about this what about this one so we'd go on the set and Wakko you know and it actually made the road series because we did nothing what I didn't want no in that scene and I had the guts before out of pity that's before you were directing them that's true it was so amazing that I that's why they said my gut she's out of her mind you know but let her go she'll find out but he came out and he said okay we'll try it that way you know what about fancy pants she worked with he different on that I almost killed him but I didn't mean to no but we really put him through the wringer we had a great director that both of us adored George Marshall god bless him and he know I'm and Bob had a lot of physical things to do and he really well no he didn't he didn't like it that much but for George he would do anything any of us would but he got hurt terribly on that thing and and George Marshall taught me to rope and ride I know what you call him railroad ties would you call him down a railroad ties and on a horse going down and really roping him on a one of those carts that you pump on a row it was unbelievable that I did it but he taught me and I got him I almost killed him then on a barrel ya fell over the barrels he did everything that was that was asked of him but he wound up with a few sprain things that I think he still has [Applause] [Music] you made facts of life now but you ended up in the hospital on that one didn't you yeah oh we loved making that oh that was the most adorable movie there's a picture thank you I think that movie it's a classic why were you in the hospital on it I did a stupid thing I was stepping into a boat and the assistant manager or what do you call it assistant to director offered his hand and I ignored it like that and took the little leap into the boat and fell five and a half feet straight down on my high on this side of my head and we only had about three weeks to go on the picture and oh that's it well yeah well it was bad and Mary what no I didn't realize you never Kinetics well I finished all right I haven't finished something no I haven't of course not it's just that Bob and I were so wrapped up in this picture and I had to go to a hospital and be gone for a month and that's all I wanted to tell you he just did they stopped production they had you mind if I cut in no because we made this at Lucy's studio you know she owned the general studio that was a Desilu studio and she owned it and we wasn't it wasn't her it was a United Artists picture and we were just renting that thing and they had a big stockholders meeting of desi Lou and Lucy went to it at noon and all the stockholders came back to the set were their statements under their arms and watched us do this one scene where we're walking on the plane and as we the guy said action this little old gal pulled out a bell in the house sounded like a concrete mixer and I and the assistant director went over almost broke her arm and said lady you cannot take movies on this set of this see she said I've got ten thousand dollars in this company I'm gonna shoot whatever [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've had so many wonderful boy what about critics choice that was one you did together Yonex choice yep talk about that no yeah why we why don't we tell him how we tried to sell it though why don't we tell him how he tried to get out of it no we didn't try to get out of it we do we went out on the road we we did a thing in New York trying to sell that picture you know no matter how you try to sell a picture if it's not there you're not gonna sell it because the people sell a picture you know I don't know how this this what is this which I thought was a story of my life thing got started all of a sudden they liked it Zingo you know and the word says you got to see it and lining up date o'clock in the morning but anyway we wanted to sell and they talked Lucy and I are going back to New York and having a few openings a few openings 11 openings in one day diner in New York do you but I said I did weapon in 11 theaters we were sitting in a bus trying to hustle this piece of film drunken barber that was our only flop though let's forget all right listen I finally got the money back on TV yeah I think yesterday it listen this next lady was one of your co-stars in here comes a girl she has a few interesting things to say and she's been on a lot of you tell us you sure her she is one of my favorite people in the whole world great please welcome one of my favorite singers to Rosemary Clooney [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how glad the many ladies from millionaires to caddies would be to catch a me but you had such persistence you brought down my resistance [Music] and it was swell you're my big and brave and handsome Romeo how I want you I shall never [Music] it's not that you're attractive but oh my heart grew active when you came into view [Music] I've got a crush [Music] [Applause] [Music] hear me cry I never had [Music] that I could fool with could you cool could you care for a cunning cottage we could share the world will plug my machine because [Music] my baby yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how are you yes yes it's a pretty song oh yeah that's for you my friend thank you baby always have thank you would you like to talk about the plot of you're kind of a girl would you like to talk about it it was that was a page-by-page that's what one of our beauties really one of the beauties Critics Choice I mean worse no no no no no I think it I think but just about same oh I tell you I think this wins it him sooner the plot was that Bob was you delivered coal you remember that your father delivered coal and you were I was worried about the energy crisis and those days and I was a chorus girl and he wanted to be in the show cuz you were in love with the star doorman wrote that didn't I think so I think so because and also he kept changing we love Tony Martin and Arlene doggerel he'll come that's a bad as bad a title is that yeah you know you know how you always have Bing Bing had it being had a couple of doozies you know and I used to always I forget the one I used to lay on him whenever we get hey let me tell me about that so on its own you'd say here coming to girl OH that's quite your strongest memory then an elephant stepped on my foot I was trying as your you know I loved you but you didn't pay any attention to me until the last and it was last seen such a lot of girls anyway anyway we had a pygmy elephant that was in the show and and I wrote a message on the back of one of his ears and got past Bob who was taking the Stars place if you believe I love this really do you love it and and then he was taking the Stars place he wanted to be in the Stars what these were walking idiot cards the waiters had them as they passed me I was up on the stage doing the thing and they had the idiot cards walking by and they pin one and an elephant's a bright piece of material yes one on chorus girls yeah backside I believe yeah right and and as so as I was I was going past him with the ear facing him the elephant did a little jedidah and my my slippered foot yeah yes it's gone by now no but I've been a camel spit in my iron and the picture you can see it on the lake show any camels camel spit in my eye and I said the buck you're gonna take that over said no that's it there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is your star co-star in paleface and it's logical follow-up the son of pale faith and hers is a face you will not easily forget ever miss Jane Russell [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] lipstick on him Jane y'all got lipstick on all that but now you're gonna cover him Dolores speak to him when he gets home Oh she'll speak to him sharply oh well then it's okay she's in the green house in Dallas getting beautiful oh yeah what was it like making we've heard about what was it Rosie what was your big focus and be careful here come the barrels yes don't forget expel base was that fun yeah it was a ball Oh in that a relief party I thought she was gonna talk now is a marvelous experience for me because I had only made two pictures before that and I'd had three directors on each picture and pale pale face was the first picture that I only had one director and the script never changed and it was the same from beginning to end and we finished on schedule we just had forgot to tell her we put we put the jokes in before the picture I knew all the jokes before I got but you had three directors on the other pictures butter and that haystack we lost him in the haystack there now well the writer directed the haystacks and we have a mixture of that I'd like you to explain what Bob can explain this thing oh that's a great shame yeah well he was obviously chicken you know story of my life mm-hmm you have an Academy Award winning song from that weapons in bows yeah almost had me record on that too yeah you know that that buttons and bow did more for that picture because that was on that hit parade for about 20 weeks before the picture was released and you had the one remember you tried to act like you forgot what's your name again you did have that marvelous thing and that did that really pushed that picture right up that open at the Paramount New York and that was it can let me did Santa paleface dinner yeah was that fun - oh yeah great did you find nutty people we had dough Norman McCloud on on the play operation no the cloud talk softer than you you know I know you don't talk about it for this kind of money but softer than you and he'd say now the next scene Bob I'd say yes noisy let me hear about it what is it and they say well the next scene selling that and we were up doing a big thing on this stagecoach you know I finish and I it was about five o'clock and they'd like to have you work till 5:30 you know get a little extra footage and I said how do you feel and she said I don't feel too good and they had a double stage at Paramount know a big thing going on and I said well folks I said let's quit like that's it for the day and we started to walk out and they told me the next day that Norman McCloud stood there after I got about 50 yards away and said you'll come back here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you just tell my story to tell that would you come back here Bob the crew just fell apart we all went home you you have a song though that you could be appropriate for the reunion with folks everybody thinks that I did buttons and bows in the picture but I didn't you say that's my statement saying at the Academy Award right but I have a song that I think would be appropriate right now okay okay maybe seems like Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] you to top with and it's still through [Music] miles around you still the thrill that it was the day I found you in that Hastings [Applause] [Music] dinner date and flowers just like are fading out for hours I always have to do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Bob UN being used to fight over who got the girl we never fought he didn't much I wonder and I thought it was his last chance oh very sweet about that yeah that is nice of you well in this particular utopia the finish where I got the girl and he came to visit us and looked in the crib at the baby and it looked like him nobody ever thought we'd get away with that - that was buddy - ogres joke and nobody ever thought we could get away with it that's that honey burly poor no sure well he he'd beat you to one of the leading ladies one of you and she did Connecticut King Arthur's Court and then co-starred with you in the great lover Rhonda slim [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] possession today for the world haven't we shirt pardon my back good evening [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you get the best chair you don't have the gorgeous and the totem pole Oh someone else is coming tonight do you remember the first time you met Bob I certainly do yes I had been working in a Connecticut Yankee with Bing Crosby and because Bing had had used me and put my name up over the title with his because he never liked star alone Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming and in Connecticut Yankee which was my first big break and big thrill so of course Bob had to use me you see that was just all her was too it's so sight unseen I mean I didn't see him I guess he had seen me somewhere I met him I think the first day of this on the set of the great lover yeah I don't think you rehearsed or anything so I think I don't think we're we've never met before you came into reverse we just the great lover just there we were in each others arms and it was something I'll tell you well it was interesting too nice not fair because see Bing was very easygoing and he just didn't care a hoot about rehearsing which was very tough on me because I hadn't had any experience so I had planned to be a singer and dancer picture with Bing Bing whoo now while we're sitting here getting ready to do a scene he he's telling jokes and of course that just blows my mind because I can't remember my line when they say action so I had to learn to work that way now when I started with Bob I thought well here we're gonna go again you know very very funny wonderful comedian who's dead serious he is so serious it's a serious business he really wanted to rehearse it and rehearse it and rehearse it I wonder why [Applause] [Music] [Applause] very careful with my love stuff these aren't my own lips these are Max Factor loners what did all that rehearsal make you nervous or turn you on or what how did you read well of course I liked it because I hadn't had any experience as I said I hadn't been to New York and pounded the pavement and and so I needed that rehearsal and Bob was wonderful he would he would he would work with me and give me suggestion to the night L died another great story because this is all a lot of con yeah you know that dough the great story about this was Troy post remember Troy post I'm the second Detroit post the guy that checked your lips when you did a song that's right here to signify the Kami when you did a song and make sure that you moved your lips with a pre-recording you know if you said I love her you have to say I love you and everything and that's the way we did a song together we did we did a song together what was it was that Thousand violins something like that anyway we sang it like this back and redo it redo it because we were over doing the lift you know it was a hangover from the other scenes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] about the girl that that in the middle of our love scenes they first off they put a as we know you know Jamie and I put that rose down your cleavage you see and then as you start to kiss there's the girl to stop watch and she's checking to be sure your lips are right together and you can only kiss for a few seconds now he's making a picture called the great lover that's some hot scene how would you sum up bob sex appeal well thank you thank Rhonda just try to remember I'd like my money I want to get the hell out of here [Applause] Oh to remember is that it's with the picture the picture wasn't yesterday and the man in that picture thank God I thought you'd heard something I thought you did what was the question again Oh God you sum up Bob sex appeal how did you get the name rapid Robert [Applause] there I go I'll have to send out my circular letters again all I can say there was a problem you can explain that as a lover Bob really tickled me he can't we get away from all this Yeah right he's it and the read this up Anita Brian will be my enemy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the party is complete we have just been joined by a lady very important in Bob Hope's life and I'm sure that if there are any facts we have left uncovered she can assist us in this well it's a most exciting lady and I think that's what she can do what will be really exciting is that she can fill us in on there on the real Bob Hope and contribute to the lawsuit anything you want to add to this little saga we have been spinning well just go right ahead dinah the only thing is you said I could fill everybody in on things that the other girls didn't say to Bob but I'm afraid that we couldn't be on the air if I Tobi's kind of thing but you'll have to excuse me all of you and lovey chiffons and everything else and I ran over here because Bob keeps me working all the time I just finished cleaning out his pool and I came [Applause] they moved away she got tired there applause machine was too long no I had to leave the neighbor I had to leave the neighborhood because remember you know my husband and I would go to bed at a reasonable hour at night and the doorbell would ring at 1 o'clock in the morning and there was Bob with about five or ten of the press and everything else and I would come out with my hair like this and grease all over my face and everything else and he'd knock and he'd say and I'd open the little peek hole and I say who is that and he'd say don't you recognize the nose so anyway I just decided I had to get out of the neighborhood to get some rest and there was there no there weren't the neighborhood is when I moved in because Bob was driving along with one of his staff one day and and they said to him Dottie and bill just bought that house and Bob says oh oh there goes the neighborhood you you've helped it you know the mailman's wearing a sarong now did you wear a sarong for the first movie with crosby and hope wrong impression about that I did South Sea Islands take juice before I did the road pictures you asked her for a date she'd climb a tree and get you one did it open Crosby break you up when you work with them they had to be funny working together well now that the road pictures are all over with him everything I can say something that I used to say very quietly that I should pay to work in a road picture was so much fun that's what we're all about I used to call myself the highest-paid straight woman in the business and I was where they thought they were nice honest said always the same though the two of them together it's always the same diamond always different huh well every minute was different I'll never forget and I think Bob will take the words right out of my mouth when I start to tell this story about the first Road picture I had learned all of my lines and my script and I was ready to know everything that day when the camera roll look at him laughing I know and I was in the middle as usual and all of a sudden they turned the cameras and nothing like was in the script nothing at all being in this area Bob in this there and it just went on and on and on and finally what did I say Bob what did I say I don't think it's printable I don't know what you say oh you always tell this story you said that I said when can I get my line in what did I say I don't know I said Troy your sarong we'll get back to you [Applause] you know the wonderful thing about that North is you always used to play the South Sea Island Maiden and so you if you said me South Sea Island maiden that Buick I mean you get a laugh with that right away with those two wins you and John Hall would show up they didn't give me a chance to save me the only Ray Milland and a few of the other ones gave me a chance to do that and those South Sea Island pictures how did you get in the first road picture I don't remember all I know is that I ended up why don't you tell the truth you are [Music] tell the truth I will tell the truth about something of tickle German I will tell the truth so awful I didn't audition you so Harvey on the airfield chance to finish oh you're the lady of my did did you audition for the raise it true you are very large very big I saw her I was in a show on brother I saw I was down in Greenwich Village at a speakeasy and I walk by one speaking one Fifth Avenue I was at a speakeasy I walked by one Fifth Avenue and I heard this voice and I looked in and this gorgeous thing was leaning against the glass Pole Santa star yeah Dorothy most beautiful thing the next thing you went up to the Navarre hotel the next thing I knew you were in Hollywood he is still not saying this story he usually tells that when I was leaning against the pole singing that he used to throw pennies at me I tell you Rhonda it has it hasn't finished her story has a finish for her story she said it's not fair because you're tickled why he tickled me [Laughter] I think you should but in the great lover he decided oh I should leave it oh yeah alright then you can tell what it was like working with Bob all these years what was it like who's working what the hell is that the audience walk [Applause] okay just a my step big here [Music] the walls of that fence small studio you don't want to talk about working with Bob Oh certainly I just said you couldn't top what you two already I just leave it alone yeah I just hate to negate anything that Rhonda said because my experience with Bob has not been that he was over anxious to rehearse oh oh right now we got the connotation from Rhonda we know exactly what went on there and why no there's the evidence it's right nothing you can do about it [Music] what kind of jury is this with me I had trouble always getting him to rehearse I mean no no I even did USO shows where you wouldn't rehearse with me that's right Lucy but I couldn't agree more some of the road pictures what used to happen they didn't like to do production stills after that I swear to you there's a picture out of the three of us on some kind of a mule or something and they had to to put in somebody else's bodies and our heads because they wouldn't do productions to us am i right no no not me I don't want to be thank God we got around this we were doing it kill and we got away from sex I was losing [Applause] I know one time I scared him to death oh yeah we gotta hear this story this is true now you won't believe this it's just we were working the Paramount in New York and we were doing a what eight nine shows a day seven seven shows seven yeah it was 9 on the outlaw okay and he would stay at the Waldorf which was very grand you see but I had to get my sleep so I would stay in some old flophouse right across from the stage entrance you mean you don't think they'd sleep at the Waldorf so what I do is I would get up and throw a fur coat over my old flannel nightgown and I would roar out the door and into the stage door and then I would get into the zippered you know the sequin thing and then I'd finally eventually get back to them when'd you make up coming across the street so one day I over one day I overslept and I got in the stage door and I could hear him announcing me on stage and less bound Browne and the boys are all through the coat off and she didn't have anything we go to hospital I came in the wings and I threw my coat open and here's this long flannel nightgown and I said I'll be right with you know he really called a couple more jokes and then I came running out in the street any time at the fair matter because those shows would start at Phyllis Diller yes but Jim I know I didn't go to earplugs to believe she's in a plane we went to weave an Easter hunt to do a couple of shows uh you know what see that she gets on the plane and she gets a coat she lays down on the floor of the plant and sleeps that's pretty good under your seat people walk all over ya get sleepers sooner or later that'll teach him my sleep good time in Chicago at the Chez Paree [Music] of course well we were both in Chicago and we didn't know it was he I didn't know he was there he didn't know I was there and we went to the l-shape hurry and I think I think Jim your father and I walked in oh all right name dropper so anyway Bob came over to our table and some lady from way across the room walked over and may I do this to you yeah no I'll do it even the woman came over and she said did like this and that and she said Julia this is it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] basil I'm here with Dorothy Lamour in Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming and Rosemary Clooney and Lucille Ball and our Island Bob Hope and all these bright that's right you feel that you know all of these girls pretty well I sure do and I adore them all I know they're all I have a number of mortgages that we ask you do know about that I know it's got to be something you've shown everybody else'll air so it's got to be no it's not a lyric and they're gonna spear me once again no I have a simple comment Haiti you're gonna rip off like this at this money any money if I we don't you we could donate this to a good charity there's no these are compliments and I just want you to figure which wire girls surely said this about you girly diamond as a dancer one of these girls described you as hard-working who do you think said that as a dancer as a dancer that's what everybody gotta be Lucy no no we're out should I dance without no it's a dancer I'm a hard worker as a dancer you are a hard worker one of these hurry up I'll also say that I know Rosie so that you don't even remember here come the girls we danced in literature on a ferry boat which was also waiting in the wings with the elephant don't let her make a bride here back [Applause] Oh yes we did dance routine yes we did clapper sound yeah break she said you were a hard workers that's a hard to play out of we don't know when the reason that you were a hard worker guess the reason I don't blame him I can't there was a no the thing is that you were doing a strip radio show a television show personal appearances and a picture when you could make it you know so when you got there then you'd have to learn the bass routine really quick I remember well really worked hard to do any good so we can get out of the show ladies here said that he knows three steps and he's used them for 30 years alive five steps five steps and using five steps you would you like to venture a guess as to who said that yes that is Lucy you know something you know how funny that is but you know that I taught dancing in Cleveland did you yes I thought you were a boxer monkeys that's how I became a dancer I did I thought dancing on 63rd Street and John roots dancing at Kut yeah I thought tap dancing yeah what you taught wrestling after the great lover [Applause] I'll never tickle you again oh just thinking about it this leads us to sex appeal right the most sex appeal of any male star in pictures who said that my agent you don't think of yourself as Hank Sofia yeah I know I know I do every time I shaved I'm convinced of it I think I'll wave now elope or said daddy said that only these girls these girls have had their share never tickled me ya know but you know I was working at the time with with stars like Tyrone Power and I don't know Ray Milland and I don't know how many of it but I don't know in my younger days what did you know well that's probably why I made this tape is because I did [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] we were talking about Bob Hope as a kisser it says whipped well guess Bob yes Bob who do you keep the game going play one of them critter said it Jane Russell wet kisser better send you a check very juicy one funny story but a kissing scene we had one time in my favorite brunette well Bob and I and I don't know whether thing to there night we'd shoot gum you know and then bro yeah for put the gum under I tell you the cameras would go on we give her like this so we had a love scene one day and I put bubble gum under my tongue and I had it all done just right and just as we're in this love scene the cameras are rolling the bubble came out that way what rather his nose I'm not a hell of an actor the step 5 what i have to go through to make $1 a song that was associated with you i didn't realize till you said it today but this song was in one of your Broadway shows oh I have planned it earlier and perhaps if I do goof up the lyric you'll understand it's because I have a song it's an hour and a half this is called I can't get started with you I do too Vernon Duke blowing around in a plane revolutions in Spain [Music] instead I can't get started with you here comes alive around the golf course I'm under fire [Music] asked me to stop [Music] so sure flex still I can't get no play [Music] lyrics I write up you ski [Music] yeah the side of you three [Music] it I've been consulted by Jimmy C and Robert asked me to tea with Queens of all our cuts but I can't get start you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's our lady with the washing we're sarong what do you want to say what you said about Dorothy in the book and you remember some of the lovely things no good these are all my dogs I love all these people you know and I don't care you know if they want to pick on dad I don't actually how many pictures did you wear a sarong in a six at about 55 pictures and that's all and that's what everybody remembers a physical harmony at six I know I stole the safety pin and - no but it's you gotta find it did you ever go on location for any of those Road pictures with Bob well I don't know about the road pictures but I remember we were on location one time one of the pictures I did with Bob because I did other pictures besides the road pictures of thought I'm not doing a Bob Hope on you pardon me girl but anyway we were on location I think it was out near Santa Anita and Bob had just come to California and we were sitting out having a box lunch one day and everybody these the workmen on the set the makeup man and everything they started trying to you know be the comedian topping Bob and Bob turned around to one of them and he said the fear not careful I'll hit you over the head with one of my annuities that was a clever line you're a beginner you just came out of it [Music] [Applause] [Music] here's the road to Hollywood those of you would like to read it and find out what wasn't said because the truth is in here there's more great entertainment on Dinah next week when our guests will include Engelbert Humperdinck Lola Falana Lawrence Welk Carrie Snodgrass Charley Pride Glenn Ford and many others all right here on 11 alive [Music]

Channel: Alan Eichler

Views: 34,215

Rating: 4.8575344 out of 5

Keywords: Bob Hope (Performer), Dinah Shore (Performer), Lucille Ball (Performer), Jane Russell (Performer), Rosemary Clooney (Performer), Rhonda Fleming (Performer), Dorothy Lamour (Performer), Hollywood, Comedy (TV Genre), Television Program

Id: hutqHFH9rSM

Length: 68min 3sec (4083 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 25 2018