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An Evening with "Stuff You Missed in History Class"
11/06/2018 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMHolly Frey and Tracy V. Wilson bring their hit podcast to The National WWII Museum.
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Ready to Laugh: Cartooning Workshop
01/16/2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PMJoin us at The National WWII Museum for a workshop led by Eli Ivory of Ivory Comics, who will instruct participants on the basics of drawing, cartooning, and caricature art.
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Mail Call: A Musical Tribute to WWII Letters
12/04/2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PMNew Orleans musician Sarah Quintana sets wartime correspondence to melodies.
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"Keep Smiling" Comedy Night
10/03/2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJoin us for a comedy night cohosted by local comedy troupe Funny Bones Improv.
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Radio Days: Girls Innovation Studio Radio Workshop
09/15/2018 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PMMake and take your own crystal radio and produce a WWII-era radio comedy using scripts, sound-effects, and music.
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Radio Days: Mining Your Mind for Laughs
09/15/2018 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMLearn 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.”
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Mail Call: A Moving Letter Within a Letter
A look into the prolific and meaningful correspondence between Bob Hope and his fans.
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Bob Hope - Themed Trivia Night
08/29/2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMGather your crew and compete for the title of Museum trivia champ!
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So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope
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.
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Film Screening: "Casanova's Big Night" (1954)
02/04/2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMThis plucky spoof of historical adventure films stars Bob Hope and Joan Fontaine, as Hope impersonates famed lover Giacomo Casanova to woo Francesca Bruni, played by Fontaine.
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Film Screening: "Road to Utopia" (1946)
11/19/2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMBob 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.
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Film Screening: "Road to Morocco" (1942)
11/12/2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMBob 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.