List of the best Bob Hope movies: My Favorite Blonde(1942), The Ghost Breakers(1940), The Cat and the Canary(1939), Nothing but the Truth(1941), The Lemon Drop Kid(1951), Monsieur Beaucaire(1946), The Princess and the Pirate(1944), Sorrowful Jones(1949), Son of Paleface(1952), Thanks for the Memory(1938), They Got Me Covered(1943), My Favorite Brunette(1947) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1942
78 Minutes
Bob Hope Madeleine Carroll Gale Sondergaard George Zucco Lionel Royce Walter Kingsford Victor Varconi Otto Reichow Charles Cane Crane Whitley Erville Alderson
spy beautiful woman vaudevillian nazi fugitive amusing cheery spirited new york city train chicago california theater show business espionage frame-up mistaken identity secret codes world war ii escape
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Richard Carlson Paul Lukas Willie Best Pedro de Cordoba Virginia Brissac Noble Johnson Anthony Quinn Tom Dugan Paul Fix
pretty woman radio host servant adviser gangster mysterious man cheeky creepy playful new york city hotel ocean liner cuba island haunted house ghosts inheritance chance meeting travel voodoo
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
72 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Gale Sondergaard John Beal Douglass Montgomery Nydia Westman George Zucco
relative friend attorney housekeeper maniac playful creepy new orleans mansion study bedroom secret passageway haunted houses inheritance impersonation lawyers insanity murder mystery quest
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Comedy
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Leif Erickson Helen Vinson Willie Best Glenn Anders Grant Mitchell Catherine Doucet Rose Hobart Clarence Kolb
stockbroker niece uncle boss partner employee amusing madcap crafty intricate yacht florida office wager schemes honesty family business money rivalry
Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Marilyn Maxwell Lloyd Nolan Jane Darwell Andrea King Fred Clark Jay C. Flippen William Frawley Harry Bellaver Sid Melton Ben Welden
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
Comedy
USA
1946
93 Minutes
barber louis xv chambermaid duke king daughter madcap amusing france kingdom castle political intrigue assumed identity banishment war romance forbidden love adventure 18th century
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Comedy
USA
1944
94 Minutes
Bob Hope Virginia Mayo Walter Brennan Walter Slezak Victor McLaglen Marc Lawrence Hugo Haas Maude Eburne Adia Kuznetzoff Brandon Hurst Tom Kennedy
actor princess pirate tattoo artist governor guard hilarious playful ship cabin palace dinghy rooming house dungeon treasure abduction impersonation cowardice corruption chases
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
Comedy
USA
1949
88 Minutes
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Mary Jane Saunders William Demarest Bruce Cabot Thomas Gomez Tom Pedi Paul Lees Houseley Stevenson Ben Welden Emmett Vogan
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his ... See full summary »
Comedy, Western
USA
1952
95 Minutes
Bob Hope Jane Russell Roy Rogers Bill Williams Lloyd Corrigan Paul E. Burns Gordon Carveth Michael Cirillo Iron Eyes Cody Chester Conklin Russ Conklin
cowboy thief federal agent confident engaging united states wild west debt money escape adventure 19th century
Junior Potter returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. "Mike" is the luscious head of a gang of thieves, and Roy Barton is the federal marshal hot on her trail.
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Charles Butterworth Otto Kruger Hedda Hopper Laura Hope Crews Emma Dunn Roscoe Karns Eddie Anderson
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Comedy
USA
1943
95 Minutes
Fired by his editor for incompetence, idiotic reporter Robert Kittredge sees a chance at redeeming himself when he accidentally uncovers a network of Nazi spies in Washington, D.C.
Comedy
USA
1947
87 Minutes
Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Peter Lorre Lon Chaney John Hoyt Reginald Denny Charles Dingle Ann Doran Frank Puglia Willard Robertson
convict photographer private investigator damsel in distress baron witty campy prison mansion sanatorium mistaken identity mystery crime private detective underdog mystery love 1940s
Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
86 Minutes
Bob Hope Joan Fontaine Basil Rathbone Audrey Dalton Hugh Marlowe Vincent Price Arnold Moss John Carradine John Hoyt Hope Emerson Robert Hutton
A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.
Comedy, Western
USA
1948
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Jane Russell Robert Armstrong Iris Adrian Bobby Watson Jackie Searle Joseph Vitale Charles Trowbridge Clem Bevans Jeff York Stanley Andrews
dentist calamity jane federal agent gunrunner native american partner charming hilarious lighthearted rousing wild west wagon train small town saloon jail california unlikely hero bravery gunfight redemption
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
Comedy
USA
1951
93 Minutes
Bob Hope Hedy Lamarr Francis L. Sullivan Mike Mazurki John Archer Iris Adrian Arnold Moss Luis Van Rooten Morris Ankrum Angela Clarke Frank Faylen
international spy comedian girlfriend fbi agent witty amusing playful quirky tangiers, morocco airport africa impersonation espionage romantic dilemma dangerous assignment adventure pursuit quest love 1950s
A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.
Comedy
USA
1941
82 Minutes
Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Lynne Overman Eddie Bracken Clarence Kolb Paul Hurst Ferike Boros Phyllis Ruth Irving Bacon Arthur Loft Edgar Dearing
movie star coward love interest colonel father assistant madcap lighthearted amusing tender movie set army camp airplane house countryside hospital military draft deception engagement mishaps
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Bruce Cabot Jack Kirkwood Lea Penman Eric Blore Hugh French Joseph Vitale
actor wealthy woman husband daughter townsperson theodore roosevelt frenetic hilarious heartwarming new mexico plains saloon mansion england small town class distinctions impersonation engagement acting unlikely romance
An American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter (Aggie). The ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1949
80 Minutes
Bob Hope Rhonda Fleming Roland Young Roland Culver Richard Lyon Gary Gray Jerry Hunter Jackie Jackson Orley Lindgren Karl Wright Esser George Reeves
murderer private investigator con artist scout duchess love interest campy madcap winsome engaging cruise ship murder detective work murder plot teamwork race against time adventure mystery pursuit 1940s
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1960
103 Minutes
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Ruth Hussey Don DeFore Louis Nye Philip Ober Marianne Stewart Peter Leeds Holly Irving William Lanteau Robert F. Simon
suburbanite friend husband wife witty passionate amusing suburbia household abandoned building hotel boat affair marriage friendship vacation love-hate relationship middle age forbidden love temptation
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1959
92 Minutes
Bob Hope Rhonda Fleming Wendell Corey Jim Davis Gloria Talbott Will Wright Mary Young Mickey Finn Bob Gunderson Fred Kohler Jr. Ethan Laidlaw
insurance salesman outlaw boss cowboy girlfriend madcap thrilling wild west small town office insurance botched job deception robbery jesse james quest love underdog 1880s
Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.
Comedy
USA
1961
109 Minutes
Bob Hope Lana Turner Janis Paige Jim Hutton Paula Prentiss Don Porter Virginia Grey Agnes Moorehead Florence Sundstrom Clinton Sundberg John McGiver
bachelor sexy woman husband manager housewife amusing dreamy suburbia household office california romance taxes jealousy writing discovery transformation forbidden love 1960s
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
65 Minutes
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Una Merkel Rufe Davis Bernard Nedell Frank Sully Bernadene Hayes Richard Denning Clarence Wilson Dudley Dickerson Harry Barris
promoter drummer business owner singer writer lighthearted engaging cheeky atlantic city, n.j. boardwalk dance hall nightclub show business partnership gambling song and dance romantic dilemma fall rise rivalry
Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Bob Hope Vera Zorina Victor Moore Irène Bordoni Dona Drake Raymond Walburn Max Rosenbloom Frank Albertson Phyllis Ruth Donald MacBride Andrew Tombes
senator young woman scapegoat politician investigator republican hilarious creative spirited new orleans government building street festival hotel political corruption blackmail culture clash investigation romance crime
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1953
78 Minutes
Bob Hope Tony Martin Arlene Dahl Rosemary Clooney Millard Mitchell William Demarest Fred Clark Robert Strauss Zamah Cunningham Frank Orth Johnny Downs
performer starlet boyfriend fan killer girlfriend cheeky rousing spectacular backstage broadway theater ferry family home new york city show business broadway murder plot success obsession deception
A clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.
Comedy
USA
1966
99 Minutes
Bob Hope Elke Sommer Phyllis Diller Cesare Danova Marjorie Lord Kelly Thordsen Benny Baker Terry Burnham Joyce Jameson Harry von Zell Kevin Burchett
real estate agent actress housekeeper wife amusing cheeky hilarious playful hotel cabin hollywood, calif. oregon marriage adultery disappearance slapstick celebrity hollywood temptation escape
A seductive starlet flees Hollywood and causes chaos for a real estate agent.
Comedy
Switzerland|USA
1958
100 Minutes
comedian criminal diplomat spy ambassador inspector madcap cheeky paris cruise ship police station asylum mistaken identity espionage counterfeit money secret codes pursuit escape mystery 1950s
American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysterious reason.
Comedy
USA
1967
107 Minutes
Bob Hope Phyllis Diller Jonathan Winters Shirley Eaton Jill St. John Stacey Maxwell Kevin Brodie Robert Hope Glenn Gilger Avis Hope Debi Storm
bank teller widower son daughter babysitter police officer amusing playful bank hotel parking lot california arizona open road on the run money misunderstanding law enforcement romance father/child relationship
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot. His luck quickly changes when it's discovered that his bank discovers a substantial money shortage in their... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1964
84 Minutes
Bob Hope Liselotte Pulver Michèle Mercier Elga Andersen Yvonne De Carlo Miiko Taka Robert Sterling Nehemiah Persoff John McGiver Jacques Bergerac Reta Shaw
bachelor friend beautiful woman foreigner baby hilarious witty united nations abandonment search childcare foreign relations competition temptation transformation 1960s
As an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN. Besides being a bachelor trying to cope with an infant, he... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1963
103 Minutes
Bob Hope Anita Ekberg Edie Adams Lionel Jeffries Percy Herbert Paul Carpenter Orlando Martins Al Mulock Bari Johnson Peter Dyneley Robert Nichols
writer secret agent explorer doctor native lighthearted playful africa manhattan government agents fraud secret plans deception espionage quest pursuit 1960s
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1969
98 Minutes
Bob Hope Jackie Gleason Jane Wyman Maureen Arthur Leslie Nielsen Tina Louise Paul Stewart Professor Irwin Corey JoAnna Cameron Tim Matheson
Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
Comedy
UK
1956
90 Minutes
Bob Hope Katharine Hepburn James Robertson Justice Robert Helpmann David Kossoff Alan Gifford Paul Carpenter Noelle Middleton Nicholas Phipps Sidney James Alexander Gauge
captain fiancée engineer former lover russian sultry thrilling emotional melodramatic patriotic passionate west germany russia london restaurant misunderstanding cold war military treason women soldiers
Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
1934
19 Minutes
Bob Hope Leah Ray Frances Halliday Jules Epailly Vicki Cummings William Edmunds
A tourist (Bob Hope) romances a South American beauty after his fiancee ditches him on their vacation.
Musical, Comedy
1943
76 Minutes
soldier fiancé friend girlfriend camp director hilarious frenetic heartwarming emotional army base weight-loss resort woods marriage commitment infidelity camping schemes shallowness love rivalry
When Cornelia Figeson (ZaSu Pitts) and two of her friends are ditched by their husbands and left to suffer through physical fitness exercises at a weight-loss camp, they rebel by recruiting some local talent from a neighboring army base for fun.
Musical, Comedy
1965
96 Minutes
Bob Hope Tuesday Weld Frankie Avalon Dina Merrill Jeremy Slate Rosemarie Frankland Walter Sande John Qualen Peter Bourne Fay DeWitt Alice Frost
single father daughter slacker interior decorator playboy spinster hilarious quirky playful stockholm sweden united states teen romance father/daughter relationship travel disapproval morality culture shock rivalry transformation
A widower (Bob Hope) gets himself transferred to Sweden to keep his teenage daughter (Tuesday Weld) away from her boyfriend (Frankie Avalon).
Comedy
1968
92 Minutes
A World War II officer attempts to raise the morale of his men by recovering a torpedoed cargo boat loaded with beer.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
90 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Hillary Brooke Douglas Dumbrille Jack LaRue Robert Barrat Nestor Paiva Will Wright Jimmie Dundee Jim Thorpe
con artist best friend father daughter thief bar owner lighthearted charming alaska boomtown bar con game mistaken identity love triangle theft friendship gold pursuit escape love
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Anthony Quinn Dona Drake Vladimir Sokoloff Mikhail Rasumny
con artist best friend princess sheik merchant witty hysterical morocco market royal palace desert love triangle slavery culture clash mistaken identity friendship travel underdog love adventure
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Comedy
USA
1939
80 Minutes
Martha Raye Bob Hope Andy Devine Alan Mowbray Gale Sondergaard Sig Ruman Ernest Cossart
A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
100 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Gale Sondergaard Frank Faylen The Wiere Brothers George Meeker
singer trumpeter love interest guardian brother lighthearted charming ocean liner rio de janeiro arranged marriage stowaway love triangle hypnosis deception adventure love 1940s
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Romance
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Charles Coburn Judith Barrett Anthony Quinn Jerry Colonna Johnny Arthur Pierre Watkin Steve Pendleton Miles Mander
sailor best friend love interest wife ex-boyfriend father lighthearted charming ship family home singapore love triangle marriage running away father/son relationship friendship travel love quest pursuit
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Martha Raye Bob Hope Betty Grable Jack Whiting J.C. Nugent Clarence Kolb Nana Bryant Emerson Treacy Bonnie Jean Churchill Kathleen Lockhart Ralph Sanford
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
92 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Una Merkel Eric Blore Iris Adrian Lionel Royce Buck Woods Leigh Whipper Ernest Whitman Noble Johnson
con artist circus performer best friend tycoon love interest charming lighthearted africa jungle resort swindling road trip circus love triangle friendship mining adventure quest love 1940s
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1952
90 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Murvyn Vye Peter Coe Ralph Moody Leon Askin
diver vaudevillian prince princess love interest partner charming cheery lighthearted south sea island beach bali australia indonesia shady dealings treasure diving love triangle expedition
Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1962
91 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Joan Collins Dorothy Lamour Robert Morley Walter Gotell Peter Sellers Felix Aylmer
con artist partner spy agent scientist madcap campy hilarious outlandish tibet underwater headquarters rocket outer space travel memory formula espionage space travel survival
Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.
Musical, Comedy
1938
91 Minutes
W.C. Fields Martha Raye Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Shirley Ross Lynne Overman Ben Blue Leif Erickson Grace Bradley Rufe Davis Tito Guizar
radio host girlfriend ex-wife brother engineer daughter charming madcap amusing playful ocean liner atlantic ocean boat race sabotage divorce romantic dilemma reconciliation inventions rivalry love
Performers put on shows as T. Frothingill Bellows (W.C. Fields) steers his ocean liner in a trans-Atlantic race.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
93 Minutes
Mary Hatcher Olga San Juan DeForest Kelley Bing Crosby Bob Hope Gary Cooper Ray Milland Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Paulette Goddard Dorothy Lamour
Almost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Comedy, Kids & Family
UK|USA
1979
94 Minutes
Charles Durning Austin Pendleton Steve Martin Mel Brooks Milton Berle James Coburn Dom DeLuise Elliott Gould Bob Hope Madeline Kahn Carol Kane
kermit the frog fozzie bear businessman producer miss piggy gonzo cheery uplifting creative playful endearing florida hollywood, calif. car swamp friendship road trip movies hollywood song and dance
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1953
108 Minutes
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Lizabeth Scott Carmen Miranda George Dolenz Dorothy Malone William Ching Paul Marion Jack Lambert Tom Powers Tony Barr
busboy nightclub employee singer lawyer mobster love interest cheeky amusing nightclub hotel cruise ship cuba castle island ghosts murder mobsters deception haunted houses mistaken identity
Fleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.