Bob Hope

String of annual NBC Christmas shows broken

Awarded his fourth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Applied for visa to Hanoi to negotiate release of US prisoners

Hosted "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre"; appearing often in the anthological offerings

Made last "Road" film, "Road to Hong Kong"

NBC broadcast first of Hope's annual Christmas specials

Hosted "Star Spangled Revue"

Initiated first of numerous Christmas shows for armed forces personnel abroad

Cut the ribbon on the first Los Angeles TV broadcast--at KTLA

Made first trip with USO, visting army bases in England, North Africa and Sicily

Began entertaining US troops at March Field in Riverside, California, in May

First "Road" film teaming him with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, "Road to Singapore"

Film acting debut in "The Big Broadcast of 1938"; sang (with Shirley Ross) what was to become his signature song, "Thanks for the Memory"; became host of NBC Radio's "The Pepsodent Show"--Hope's NBC radio show would last until the 1950s in one form or another

Broadway acting debut in "Roberta"

Appeared in the stage production of "Sidewalks of New York"

Won contest as Chaplin imitator (date approximate)

Immigrated to USA aged four

Began performing in vaudeville

Raised in Cleveland, Ohio