During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
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Bob Hope as Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal as Narrator (voice)
Woody Allen as Self
Dick Cavett as Self
Leonard Maltin as Self
Conan O'Brien as Self
Margaret Cho as Self
Linda Hope as Self
Bing Crosby as Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball as Self (archive footage)
George Burns as Self (archive footage)
Gracie Allen as Self (archive footage)
Phyllis Diller as Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Lamour as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
James Cagney as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
Rosemary Clooney as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Colonna as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)
Aretha Franklin as Self (archive footage)
Betty Grable as Self (archive footage)
Harry James as Self (archive footage)
Frances Langford as Self (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Maxwell as Self (archive footage)
Ethel Merman as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)
Janis Paige as Self (archive footage)
Diana Ross as Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck as Self
Brooke Shields as Self
Connie Stevens as Self
James Stewart as Self (archive footage)
Lana Turner as Self (archive footage)
Paulette Goddard as actress in 'The Ghost Breakers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn as actor in 'The Ghost Breakers' (archive footage) (uncredited)