The legendary wit and unmistakable voice of America's favorite showman are captured here in the master entertainer's memoir of his first fifty years in show business. From his one-night stands in vaudeville to countless performances for servicemen on U.S. military bases across the globe, this delightfully candid book of funny life stories is pure Hope. In his own words, Hope recalls his brief career as an amateur prizefighter; his flops and successes...

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.

Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.

Draws on exclusive reporting to honor Bob Hope's top-rated successes while discussing such topics as his secret first marriage, stint in reform school and ambivalent relationships with fellow stars.

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are up to their old tricks when they meet a beautiful young princess who is in trouble (1st work). Bob Hope is a children's photographer who longs to be a private detective (2nd work).

An American entertainer travels to Paris to buy a script, but it turns out to be an exposé of a French counterfeiting ring.

The second of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a couple of scheming carnival performers.

A racetrack betting tipster at a Florida racetrack offers some "good advice" and lives to regret it. It's his money or his life when mobster Moose Moran gives him until Christmas to make up a $10,000 error.

Sylvester the Great is a 17th-century entertainer with an act so atrocious, he's exiled from England. Aboard a ship bound for America, he finds himself falling for the beautiful Princess Margaret, a woman uninterested in love - not to mention his lousy one-liners. But when an evil band of pirates attack the ship and capture the princess, her only hope is the cowardly Sylvester. Now he has to stop cracking jokes and muster the courage to rescue his...

Larry Lawrence (Hope), a Manhattan radio commentator sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk and Larry are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter (Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle.