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Photos: Bob Hope: Career in pictures

In this film set on an ocean liner, Hope plays a bumbling scoutmaster on the run from a killer. In between the chaos, he pursues a duchess played by Rhonda Fleming.

In this film set on an ocean liner, Hope plays a bumbling scoutmaster on the run from a killer. In between the chaos, he pursues a duchess played by Rhonda Fleming.   (AFP / Getty Images )

By Christy Khoshaba
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By the time Bob Hope died in 2003 at age 100, he had conquered vaudeville, Broadway, recordings, concerts, radio, films and TV, where he remained a welcome presence into his 90s. Hope’s life is chronicled in a new biography, “Hope: Entertainer of the Century,” by Richard Zoglin.

Christmas tour | 1957

Jayne Mansfield is given a lift by Hope as Johnny Grant, left, Hedda Hopper and Roscoe Ates look on at the USO troupe’s departure for a Christmas tour to the Far East. This was one of Hope’s many tours to entertain America’s troops.   (Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times)

With President Reagan | 1988

President Reagan shakes hands with Hope after awarding him the American Hope Award at the grand opening of the Bob Hope Cultural Center in Palm Desert, Calif. Hope had a one-of-a-kind home, designed by architect John Lautner, in nearby Palm Springs.  (Larry Davis / Los Angeles Times)

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Christy Khoshaba

Christy Khoshaba is a former entertainment producer for the Los Angeles Times.

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