Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in this comedy film, directed by Victor Schertzinger, which marked the debut of the long-running and popular Road to … series of pictures spotlighting the trio, seven in all.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in this Road to. . . film, directed by David Butler, which centers on two carefree castaways on a desert shore who find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

When World War II began, entertainer Bob Hope’s career as a major movie star in film and radio was just beginning to take off, having worked his way from jobs as a newsboy, a butcher’s assistant, a shoe salesman, and an amateur boxer to scrape by in the early 1920s.

Learn how to write humor on any topic with Martha Bolton, who Bob Hope once said “finds fun in the familiar, the mirth in the mundane, the belly laughs in the bellyaches of everyday living.”

New Orleans musician Sarah Quintana sets wartime correspondence to melodies.

Sean Patterson and the Victory Six return to the era of pre-TV entertainment for a “live” radio variety show.

Honoring Bob Hope’s lifelong dedication to troops and veterans, the Museum visits hospitalized heroes.

Read excerpts from some of the winning essays, which contemplate what the duty of art and artists should be during times of war and conflict.    

See this war comedy directed by David Butler and starring Bob Hope as Don, Dorothy Lamour as Tony, Clarence Kolb as Tony’s father, Colonel Peter Fairbanks, and Eddie Bracken and Lynne Overman as Don’s cronies.

This Paramount picture musical film—which features an all-star cast including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Veronica Lake, and Fred MacMurray—was made during World War II as a morale booster, with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back home and to encourage fundraising, as well as to show the studios' patriotism.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in another of their Road to. . . series, directed by Victor Schertzinger.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in another Road to. . . picture, directed by Hal Walker, which features two turn-of-the-century vaudeville performers, Duke and Chester, who go to Alaska to make their fortune.