Linda Hope- Facts About Bob Hope's daughter

Who is Linda Hope?

Linda Hope is an Author and the daughter of Bob Hope and his wife Dolores Hope. According to her IMDB profile, she is known for 100 Years of Hope and Humor (2003), Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963). She is the author of the book MY FATHER, BOB HOPE.

Linda Hope: Bio Summary

Full NameLinda Hope
famous asdaughter of Bob Hope and Dolores Hope
Age89 years old as of 2022
Date of Birth1933
Place of Birth United States of America
NationalityBritish-American
EthnicityCaucasian
Siblings Anthony J. HopeWilliam Kelly Francis HopeEleanora Hope
Parents Bob Hope, Dolores Hope

Linda Hope was born in 1933 in the United States of America. She is 89 years old as of 2022. She is an adopted daughter of Bob Hope and Dolores Hope. She was not the only adopted child of her parents, she had three other adopted siblings. They are  Anthony J. HopeWilliam Kelly Francis Hope, and Eleanora Hope.

Linda Hope’s father is a British-born American entertainer and comic actor known for his rapid-fire delivery of jokes and one-liners and for his success in virtually all entertainment media. He was also known for his decades of overseas USO tours to entertain U.S. troops, and he received numerous awards and honors for his work as an entertainer and humanitarian. Her mother Dolores was an American singer, entertainer, and philanthropist.

Linda described her father as a fun person

According to greatentertainersarchives, Linda Hope describes his father Bob Hope as a man who is always up for fun- she said –

Every Tuesday my dad would do two radio shows, one on the east coast at 5pm and then he’d fly over and be on the radio at 8pm live from Los Angeles for his west coast audience. But in between the shows my mother, Dolores, my brother Tony, and I would meet him at Brown Derby, a little restaurant near the NBC studios in West Hollywood (our brother and sister were babies and stayed at home).

My mother always made us get dressed up, and insisted we behave properly at the dinner table. But Dad was like her fifth child – he was always up for having fun. Often while Mother was explaining something, like which forks to use, suddenly a napkin would come flying out of nowhere, sent over by Dad. It would crack us up.

Linda Hope is an Emmy Winner

According to Emmys, Linda Hope won the Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, Or Comedy Special- 1993 with the Film, BOB HOPE: THE FIRST 90 YEARS. She was the Executive Producer of the film. The film was to Honour Bob Hope on his 90th birthday.

ALSO, READ; Anthony J. Hope: What Happened To Bob Hope And Dolores Hope’s Son?

Her Parent’s Marriage had some Controversies

Linda Hope’s mother was not the first woman her father married. According to his Wikipedia, Linda’s father was briefly married to vaudeville partner Grace Louise Troxell (1912–1992), a secretary from Chicago, Illinois. They were married on January 25, 1933, in Erie, Pennsylvania. They divorced in November 1934.

Linda’s mother, Dolores Hope later joined Bob’s vaudeville troupe and was performing with him at Loew’s Metropolitan Theater and that was how they meet. She was described as a “former Ziegfeld beauty and one of society’s favorite nightclub entertainers, having appeared at many private social functions in New York, Palm Beach, and Southampton”.

ALSO, READ; William Kelly Francis Hope: Facts About Bob Hope’s Son

Bob and Dolores Hope’s long-alleged marriage was fraught with ambiguities. As Richard Zoglin wrote in his 2014 biography Hope: Entertainer of the Century,

Bob and Dolores always claimed that they married in February 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania. But at that time, he was secretly married to his vaudeville partner Louise Troxell, after three years together on and off. I found divorce papers for Bob and Louise dated November 1934, so either Bob Hope was a bigamist, or he lied about marrying Dolores in February that year. He had actually married Louise in January 1933 in Erie when they were traveling on the vaudeville circuit. When he claimed he had married Dolores in Erie he was miles away in New York, on Broadway. More intriguing, there is no record anywhere of his marriage to Dolores, if it happened. And there are no wedding photos, either. But he never forgot Louise and quietly sent her money in her later years.

Her Parents were Centenarians

Both of Linda Hope’s parents lived up to 100 years and more before they died. Her father Bob Hope lived up to 100 years before he died. He retired from all public life in 1998 and died on July 27, 2003, in his Toluca Lake home. Dolores Hope also lived up to 103 before she died. She died of natural causes at her home in Toluca Lake like her husband, on September 19, 2011. She had been in relatively good health until a few months before her death.

ALSO, READ; Eleanora Hope: What happened to Bob Hope’s daughter?

Linda Hope Held Garage Sales at her father’s mansion after his death

Hoping for a reminder of their idol: Hundreds of fans descend on Bob Hope’s home as family holds a garage sale at the famous funnyman’s mansion according to dailymail. Linda opened up his father’s Toluca Lake, California home for a garage sale, selling off holiday decorations, old movies, and books that belonged to the late comedian. 

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