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The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppet Movie is a musical road comedy film directed by James Frawley, produced by Jim Henson, and the first theatrical film featuring the Muppets. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the film was written by The Muppet Show writers Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns. Produced between the first and second half of The Muppet S...
Starring: W. C. Fields•Richard Pryor•Edward Arnold•Basil Rathbone•Walter Brennan•Paulette Goddard•James Cagney•Bing Crosby•Ralph Bellamy•George Burns
Cancel My Reservation (1972)
Cancel My Reservation is a 1972 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint, and directed by Paul Bogart. The movie was Bob Hope's last of over 50 theatrical features as leading man, a screen run begun in 1938. It was also Eva Marie Saint's last film before she took a break from the big screen until 1986's Nothing in Common.
Starring: Gracie Allen•Richard Pryor•Eva Marie Saint
How to Commit Marriage (1969)
How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama, and starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Tina Louise, Irwin Corey, Leslie Nielsen, Tim Matheson and Jane Wyman in her final film role. It was filmed in the current version of Cinerama. A rock band entitled The Comfortable Chair appears as a rock group, performing their s...
Starring: Otto Kruger•Richard Pryor•Douglass Montgomery
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Jeffrey Hunter. It was the final film for Tashlin, who died in 1972.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Madeleine Carroll•Dorothy Lamour
Eight on the Lam (1967)
Eight on the Lam is a 1967 American comedy film directed by George Marshall. It stars Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Lucille Ball•Joan Fontaine•Dorothy Lamour
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is a 1966 DeLuxe Color American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Elke Sommer. This film marked the first of three film collaborations for Hope and comedian Phyllis Diller, and was followed by Eight on the Lam in 1967 and The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell in 1968.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Martha Raye•Dorothy Lamour
I'll Take Sweden (1965)
I'll Take Sweden is a 1965 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova, and starring Bob Hope, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Tony Martin•Milton Berle
A Global Affair (1964)
A Global Affair is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier, Yvonne De Carlo, and Elga Andersen.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Lana Turner•Hedy Lamarr
Call Me Bwana (1963)
Call Me Bwana is a 1963 British Technicolor farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg and directed by Gordon Douglas.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Yvonne De Carlo•Richard Carlson
Critic's Choice (1963)
Critic's Choice is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin, the movie stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and includes Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the cast.
Starring: Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor•Elke Sommer•Gene Krupa
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as Joan Collins, with an extended cameo featuring Dorothy Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule. This was the seventh and final installment in the Road to … series and the only one made without th...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Richard Pryor•Irène Bordoni
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Bachelor in Paradise is a 1961 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner. Directed by Jack Arnold, it was written by Valentine Davies and Hal Kanter, based on a story by Vera Caspary.
Starring: William Bendix•Richard Pryor•Jackie Gleason•Betty Hutton
The Facts of Life (1960)
The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as married people who have an affair. Written, directed and produced by longtime Hope associates Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is more serious than many other contemporary Hope vehicles. The film features an opening animated title sequence created by Saul Bass...
Starring: Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor•Marilyn Maxwell
Alias Jesse James (1959)
Alias Jesse James is a 1959 American Western comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming. Based on a story by Robert St. Aubrey and Bert Lawrence, the film is about an outlaw who tries to kill an insurance agent who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. Costumes by Edith Head.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Virginia Mayo
Paris Holiday (1958)
Paris Holiday is a 1958 comedy film starring Bob Hope, which was directed by Gerd Oswald, and written by Edmund Beloin and Dean Riesner from a story by Hope. The film also features French comedian Fernandel, Anita Ekberg and Martha Hyer, and a rare appearance by writer/director Preston Sturges. The film was shot in Technirama and Technicolor in Par...
Starring: Richard Pryor•Yvonne De Carlo•Rhonda Fleming
Beau James (1957)
Beau James is a 1957 film based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Gene Fowler. The film stars Bob Hope in a rare dramatic role as Jimmy Walker, the colorful but controversial Mayor of New York City from 1926–32.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Arlene Dahl•Pearl Bailey
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 British Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn, and directed by Ralph Thomas. The screenplay by Ben Hecht became the focus of a contentious history behind the production, and led to the film's eventual suppression by Hope. Hecht had been part of the screenwriting team on the similarly themed Comrad...
Starring: Francis L. Sullivan•Richard Pryor
That Certain Feeling (1956)
That Certain Feeling is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint and George Sanders. The cast also features Pearl Bailey and a young Jerry Mathers.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Rosemary Clooney•Eva Marie Saint
The Seven Little Foys (1955)
The Seven Little Foys is a Technicolor in VistaVision 1955 comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. One highlight of the film is an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence with Bob Hope as Eddie Foy and James Cagney as George M. Cohan. The story of Eddie Foy Sr. and the Seven Little Foys inspired a TV version in...
Starring: Joan Collins•Richard Pryor
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Casanova's Big Night is a 1954 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Joan Fontaine, which is a spoof of swashbuckling historical adventure films. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Starring: Anita Ekberg•Tuesday Weld•Richard Pryor
Here Come the Girls (1953)
Here Come the Girls (1953) is a musical comedy film directed by Claude Binyon, filmed in Technicolor, produced by Bob Hope's company Hope Productions Inc., and released by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Rip Torn•Richard Pryor•James Coburn•Edie Adams
Off Limits (1953)
Off Limits is a 1953 comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. Hope plays a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted. The picture was written by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher, and was released in the UK as Military Policemen, as the characters played by Hope...
Starring: Paula Prentiss•Richard Pryor•Elke Sommer
Road to Bali (1952)
Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 19, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies. It was the only entry in the series filmed in Technicolor and was the first to feature surprise cameo appearances from ot...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
Son of Paleface (1952)
Son of Paleface is a 1952 American Comedy Western film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, and Roy Rogers. The film is a sequel to The Paleface (1948). Written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan, and Robert L. Welch, the film is about a man who returns home to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. Son of Paleface...
Starring: Richard Pryor•Elliott Gould•Dom DeLuise
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 American comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. Although Sidney Lanfield is credited as the director, Frank Tashlin reportedly was hired, uncredited, to finish the film. The story had previously been adapted as a 1934 film starring Lee Tracy, with ac...
Starring: Carol Kane•Richard Pryor•Elke Sommer
My Favorite Spy (1951)
My Favorite Spy is a 1951 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr.
Starring: W. C. Fields•Richard Pryor•Hedda Hopper
Fancy Pants (1950)
Fancy Pants is a 1950 American romantic comedy western film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap.
Starring: Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor
The Great Lover (1949)
The Great Lover is a 1949 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, and Roland Young. In the film, a scout leader takes his troop on an ocean cruise, pursues a beautiful duchess and is stalked by a murderer. It is also known as Easy Does It and My Favourite Redhead.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Virginia Mayo
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
Starring: Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor
The Paleface (1948)
The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows". The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Dom DeLuise
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history. While taking care of his private-eye neighbor'...
Starring: Edward Arnold•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
Road to Rio (1947)
Road to Rio is a 1947 American semimusical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortun...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
Where There's Life (1947)
Where There's Life is a 1947 American thriller comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film's title derives from a line in Don Quixote as a play on the name of its star, Bob Hope. Also in the cast are Signe Hasso, William Bendix, and George Coulouris.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Walter Brennan•Paulette Goddard•George Burns
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
Monsieur Beaucaire is a 1946 comedy film starring Bob Hope as the title character, the barber of King Louis XV of France. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. It is a remake of the 1924 Rudolph Valentino silent film of the same name Monsieur Beaucaire.
Starring: Richard Pryor•Gracie Allen
Road to Utopia (1946)
Road to Utopia is a 1946 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, Road to Utopia is the fourth film of the "Road to …" series. Written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about two vaudeville performers at the turn of the t...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. Based on a story by Sy Bartlett, the film is about a princess who travels incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man to whom she is betrothed. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who plan ...
Starring: Otto Kruger•Richard Pryor•Douglass Montgomery
Let's Face It (1943)
Let's Face It is a 1943 American musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Harry Tugend, adapted from the musical of the same name. The film stars Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, ZaSu Pitts, Phyllis Povah, Dave Willock, Eve Arden, and Cully Richards. The film was released on August 5, 1943, by Paramount Pictures. A New York Times critic at th...
Starring: Richard Pryor•John Beal
They Got Me Covered (1943)
They Got Me Covered, also known as Washington Story and The Washington Angle, is a 1943 comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Otto Preminger appears in a supporting role.
Starring: Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
My Favorite Blonde is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll. Based on a story by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the days just before the United States' entry into World War II. The film f...
Starring: Madeleine Carroll•George Zucco•Richard Pryor•Peter Lorre
Road to Morocco (1942)
Road to Morocco is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and featuring Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake. The film, which was written by Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by David Butler for Paramount Pictures, is the third of the "Road to …" films. It was preceded by Road to Zanzibar (1941) and followed ...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
Caught in the Draft (1941)
Caught in the Draft is a 1941 comedy/war film with Bob Hope directed by David Butler.
Starring: Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, and Victor Moore. It is an adaptation of Irving Berlin's 1940 Broadway musical of the same name. A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings, with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as ...
Starring: Richard Pryor•Gale Sondergaard•Shirley Ross
Nothing But the Truth (1941)
Nothing but the Truth is a 1941 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, their third movie together in three years. The movie was directed by Elliott Nugent.
Starring: Martha Raye•Gene Krupa•Richard Pryor
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures semi-musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven pictures in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio. It takes place in the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Breakers is a 1940 American mystery/horror comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. It was adapted by screenwriter Walter DeLeon as the third film version of the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Starring: Gene Krupa•Richard Carlson•Richard Pryor•Vera Zorina
Road to Singapore (1940)
Road to Singapore is a 1940 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in British Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film ...
Starring: Michèle Mercier•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
The Cat and the Canary is a 1939 American horror comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. It is a remake of the 1927 silent film The Cat and the Canary, which was based on the 1922 play of the same name by John Willard.
Starring: Gene Krupa•Irène Bordoni•William Bendix•George Zucco•Richard Pryor
Never Say Die (1939)
Never Say Die is a 1939 American romantic comedy film starring Martha Raye and Bob Hope. Based on a play of the same title by William H. Post and William Collier Sr., which ran on Broadway for 151 performances in 1912, the film was directed by Elliott Nugent and written for the screen by Dan Hartman, Frank Butler and Preston Sturges. The supporting...
Starring: Betty Hutton•Richard Pryor
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Some Like It Hot, reissued for television as Rhythm Romance, is a 1939 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, and Gene Krupa. Directed by George Archainbaud, its screenplay was written by Wilkie C. Mahoney and Lewis R. Foster, based on the play The Great Magoo by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, which performed briefly on Broadway in 1932. The film...
Starring: Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor•George Coulouris
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger.
Starring: Virginia Mayo•Jonathan Winters•Richard Pryor
College Swing (1938)
College Swing, also known as Swing, Teacher, Swing in the U.K., is a 1938 comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, and Bob Hope. The supporting cast features Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, Robert Cummings, and Jerry Colonna.
Starring: Joan Caulfield•Francis L. Sullivan•Richard Pryor
Give Me a Sailor (1938)
Give Me a Sailor is a 1938 comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent, starring Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Jack Whiting. This was Raye and Hope's third film together, the first in which they played the leads.
Starring: Hedda Hopper•Betty Hutton•Richard Pryor
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Thanks for the Memory is a 1938 film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. The picture was adapted from the play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. The film is a remake of Up Pops the Devil (1931) starring Carole Lombard and Norman Foster. The titular song, "Thanks for the Memory", remained Bob Hope's theme son...
Starring: Otto Kruger•Betty Grable•Signe Hasso•Richard Pryor