Virginia mayo james cagney12/8/2023 Rosemarie FranklandĪfter he crowned the Welsh beauty Miss World of 1961 (above), Hope “took Frankland on his 1961 Christmas trip to the Arctic, supported her when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career and gave her a small part in his 1965 movie ‘I’ll Take Sweden,’ ’’ Zoglin writes. She was found dead of a drug overdose in 1963. Hope had a “fairly open affair’’ with Halloran, a member of his publicity staff who accompanied him on a trip to Russia in 1958, Zoglin reveals. Hope.’’ Married three times, she died of a heart attack in 1972, aged 50. The two were together so often that people on the Paramount lot began referring to Maxwell as Mrs. “On the road for a military-camp show, publicist Frank Liberman once saw Hope and Maxwell check in for the night at a cheap motel. “Hope’s intimate relationship with Maxwell was well-known to most of the people who worked with him,’’ Zoglin writes. Marilyn MaxwellĬurvy actress-singer Marilyn Maxwell was Hope’s girlfriend from around 1950 to 1954, according to the book, co-starring with him in the movies “The Lemon Drop Kid” (above) and “Off Limits’’ as well as touring with his vaudeville act and USO shows. from selling her story to Confidential magazine in 1956, a rare breach in the wall of secrecy that surrounded Hope’s sex life.’’ Turning to drugs and prostitution, Payton drank herself to death, dying at the age of 39 in 1967. Zoglin quotes her biographer as saying, “She followed Hope around the country, moved into a furnished apartment that he rented for her in Hollywood, and when the affair ended in August, was paid off by Hope to keep quiet about it. Payton, a blonde femme fatale who starred in such noirs as “Bad Blonde’’ (above) and James Cagney’s “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,’’ had a relationship with Hope that began in the spring of 1949 and lasted for several months, according to the book. Day never commented on the alleged affair.’’ Barbara Payton According to Hope, Day saw the gesture as a wife’s symbolic marking of her territory, and she ended the relationship then and there. “When they returned home to Burbank, Dolores was at the airport to greet them, giving Bob an ostentatious welcome-home hug. “Hope claimed to a friend years later that he and Day had a brief romantic fling while they were touring together in 1949,’’ Zoglin writes. Mostly, the book alleges, Hope enjoyed one-night stands with showgirls and beauty queens - avoiding romantic entanglements with his beautiful co-stars in movies, who included such actresses as Lucille Ball, Jane Russell, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine and Dorothy Lamour.īut some of his affairs were of longer duration, Zoglin writes, and involved higher-profile women, a few of whom he worked with - and who sometimes met unhappy ends: Doris Day Zoglin quotes former Hope writer Sherwood Schwartz on Hope’s womanizing in the late 1930s: “We’d go to a hotel, I swear to you, outside his room were three, four, five young, beautiful girls, waiting to be picked by him to come in. Zoglin’s book reveals Hope “quietly sent her money in the years before her death’’ in 1976 at age 65. The author was able to find a divorce decree documenting Hope’s 1933-34 marriage to former vaudeville partner Grace Troxell, which Hope’s publicists denied ever took place when it was revealed in a 1993 biography. “The lack of any record of the Hopes’ marriage (not even a wedding photo) led some Hope family members to speculate over the years that a wedding may never have taken place.’’ “No marriage license for Bob and Dolores Hope has ever turned up,’’ Zoglin writes. 4, not only casts doubt on whether Hope was ever legally married to the former Dolores DeFina (who died in 2011 at age 102) - it chronicles a long list of his rumored sexual dalliances, some of which went on for years. Or was he? “Hope: Entertainer of the Century,’’ a new biography by Richard Zoglin out Nov. He also had one of the longest show-business marriages on record - he was wed to singer Dolores Reade Hope for 69 years until his death at age 100 in 2003. Comedy legend Bob Hope was a top star in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, in movies, on TV and through decades of USO tours around the world.
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