Over 22 years (1940-1962), Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made seven movies together in what became known as the "Road Shows" or "Road to .." shows. Dorothy Lamour was also in all of the films and they were often set in exotic places. All were love triangles of one sort or another. Bing always gets the girl, but Bob gets most of the laughs and audience draw. The two entertainers were well-entrenched stars before their series. And that's just part of this documentary short about Bob Hope and his rise to fame.
The film has the usual interviews and snippets of films or news, beginning with Hope's vaudeville days. It was well before my time, but I found it quite funny how Hope would lure people leaving the Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy show over to his radio show in his early days on NBC. Actress Phyllis Diller worked with Hope in films, TV and on his U.S.O. tours to entertain American servicemen during Christmas time. She talked about the wacky fun it was working with Bob Hope.
This is an interesting short that comes on a DVD set of four of the Road pictures. Mostly it's a nostalgic look back on the career of a wonderful entertainer. In the Road pictures, Hope and Crosby used a technique that a few other comedians adopted for a time in the md-20th century. They would talk to the camera, the audience. At that time, I suppose it was something of familiarity with audiences. It's quite dated, and I think it's a distraction from the story, even when done only at the end. But that was part of the fun that Hope and Crosby had working together and a sign of the fun their whole cast and crew had making their films.