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White House Murder Case
The White House Murder Case. Program for West Coast premiere, March 1971. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (037.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0037_01]
Head for the DMZ
Head for the DMZ. Poster, 1968. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (040.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0040_01]
Feiffer on President Johnson
Jules Feiffer. “First the Negroes revolted.” Published in New York Post, August 23, 1967. Copyprint. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (047.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0047]
Letter from Willie Day Taylor to Jules Feiffer, August 25, 1967. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0045]
Draft of letter from Jules Feiffer to Willie Day Taylor, September 12, 1967. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0046]
Letter from Willie Day Taylor to Jules Feiffer, November 20, 1968. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (045.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0045_01]
Feiffer on President Nixon
Jules Feiffer. Christmas card, 1972. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0044]
Political Humor
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Satire Enters Television
The Smothers Brothers
Photograph of the Smothers Brothers, June 9, 1964. Copyprint. Courtesy of the District of Columbia Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post (051.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0051]
Bob Hope and the Return of the Smothers Brothers
Letter from Tom Smothers to Bob Hope, February 16, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (049.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0049]
The Return of the Smothers Brothers, February 16, 1970. Script. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0048]
Letter from McCabe to Bob Hope, February 17, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0050]
Letter from Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Kaulf to Bob Hope, February 22, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (050.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0050_01]
Letter from Judy Mills to Bob Hope, February 17, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (048.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0048_02]
Letter from Bob Hope to “Outcasts” [Tom and Dick Smothers], September 30, 1969. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (050.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0050_02]
Pat Paulsen for President
Archie Lieberman, photographer. Pat Paulsen at the Democratic National Convention, August 1968. Copyprint. Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24774]
Courtesy of Archie Lieberman, www.archielieberman.com
David Frye
Geoffrey Gilbert, photographer. David Frye performing at the Shoreham, Washington, D.C., March 8, 1973. Copyprint. Courtesy of the District of Columbia Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post (055.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0055]
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
Guest Sammy Davis, Jr., (1925–1990, left) and cast member Judy Carne (b. 1939, right), with hosts Dan Rowan (1922–1987) and Dick Martin (1922–2008), from the first season of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, 1968. Copyprint. Courtesy of the NBC Universal Photo Bank (053.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0053]
Saturday Night Live
Dan Aykroyd as Richard Nixon and John Belushi as Henry Kissinger in “Final Days” skit on Saturday Night Live, May 8, 1976. Copyprint. Courtesy of the NBC Universal Photo Bank (054.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0054]
The Tonight Show
Paul Drinkwater, photographer. George Carlin and Richard Pryor with host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, May 20, 1981. Copyprint. Courtesy of the NBC Universal Photo Bank (052.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0052]
Letter from John Krusack to NBC, January 19, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (048.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0048_01]
Causes and Controversies
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Entertaining the Troops
“The Sweetheart of the A.E.F.”
Elsie Janis. The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1919. General Collections, Library of Congress (109.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0109 – bhp0109p6]
Letter from Elsie Janis to Bob Hope, 1952. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (108.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0108]
Letter from Elsie Janis to Bob Hope, December 10, 1952. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (108.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0108_01]
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Eleanor Roosevelt on White House lawn with “Hollywood Victory Caravan” entertainers (seated, from left) Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), Joan Blondell (1906–1979), Charlotte Greenwood (1890–1977), Charles Boyer (1899–1978), Risë Stevens (b. 1913), Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Frank McHugh (1898–1981), writer Matt Brooks (1907–1990), James Cagney (1899–1986), Pat O’Brien (1899–1983), Juanita Stark, Alma Carroll; (standing, from left) Merle Oberon (1911–1979), Eleanor Powell (1912–1982), Arleen Whelan (1914–1993), Marie McDonald (1923–1965), Fay McKenzie (b. 1918), Katharine Booth, Mrs. Roosevelt (1884–1962), Frances Gifford (1920–1994), Frances Langford (1913–2005), Elyse Knox (b. 1917), Cary Grant (1904–1986), Claudette Colbert (1903–1996), Bob Hope (1903–2003), Ray Middleton (1907–1984), Joan Bennett (1910–1990), Bert Lahr (1895–1967), director Mark Sandrich (1900–1945), writer Jack Rose (1911–1995), Stan Laurel (1890–1965), Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), and Groucho Marx (1890–1977), April 30, 1942. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (124.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0124]
Hollywood Canteen
Bette Davis pointing out the Hollywood Hall of Honor . . . to Marlene Dietrich and Bob Hope at the Hollywood Canteen during its first anniversary party, October 31, 1943, Acme Newspictures, Inc. Copyprint. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (110.00.00)
[Digital ID# cph-3c12143]
Bolstering Morale
The All-Star Bond Rally. (Top row, from left) Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), Bing Crosby (1903–1977), Bob Hope (1903–2003), Harpo Marx (1888–1964), Betty Grable (1916–1973). (Middle row, from left) Linda Darnell (1923–1965), Vivian Blaine (1921–1995). (Bottom row, from left) Carmen Miranda (1909–1955), Marian (1898-1961) and Jim (1896–1988) Jordan (“Fibber McGee and Molly”). Canadian Motion Picture War Services Committee, 1945. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (122.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0122]
Crowds in Times Square during launch of national USO advertising campaign, June 2, 1941. Copyprint. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (123.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24374]
The Billboard, December 25, 1943. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (125.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0125]
Cheering the Wounded
Bob Hope (1903–2003) and his USO troupe visiting a hospital ward in the South Pacific (from left) Tony Romano (1915–2005), Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), Bob Hope, Patty Thomas (b. 1922), and Frances Langford (1913–2005), 1944. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (116.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0116]
Notes from soldiers to loved ones at home, August 1943. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (111.00.00 and 111.00.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0111p1a and bhp0111p2a]
Notes from soldiers to loved ones at home, August 1943. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (111.01.00 and 111.01.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0111_01p1, bhp0111_01p3]
Bob Hope’s First George Foster Peabody Award
Bob Hope’s George Foster Peabody award, June 12, 1944. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (207.00.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0207]
George Foster Peabody citation to Bob Hope, June 12, 1944. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (208.00.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0208]
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich, Somewhere in France, 1944. Copyprint. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.00.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-24372]
Card from Marlene Dietrich to Rouben Mamoulian. “Somewhere in Germany,” 1944. Rouben Mamoulian Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (115.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0115]
“I Love My Men”
George S. Patton. Diary entry, August 21–22, 1943. George S. Patton Papers, Manuscript Division. Library of Congress (112.00.00 and 112.00.01)
[Digital ID# bhp0112 – bhp0112p1]
Hal Block (1913–1981), Bob Hope (1903–2003), Barney Dean (1903–1954), General George S. Patton, Frances Langford (1913–2005), and Tony Romano (1915–2005) in Sicily, August 21, 1943. Copyprint. George S. Patton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (113.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0113]
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