Dubbed "America's most honored citizen and our favorite clown" a stage actor, movie superstar and television host and personality:

BOB HOPE

with a career that included appearances on stage in vaudeville shows and Broadway productions. He began performing on the radio in 1934 mostly with NBC radio, and switched to television when that medium became popular in the 1950s. He started hosting regular TV specials in 1954, and hosted the Academy Awards nineteen times from 1939 through 1977. Overlapping with this was his movie career, spanning 1934 to 1972, and his USO tours, which he conducted from 1941 to 1991. 

Hope starred in 54 theatrical features between 1938 and 1972, as well as cameos and short films but after the release of Road to Singapore (1940), Hope's screen career took off.  The highly successful "Road" movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. consists of seven films made between 1940 and 1962: Road to Singapore (1940), Road to Zanzibar (1941), Road to Morocco (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Road to Bali (1952), and The Road to Hong Kong (1962).

As part of the AT THE MOVIES series, here then are presented highlights from The Road To Utopia, The Road To Rio and The Road to Bali.

1 Road To Utopia: Overture 01:35

2 Road To Utopia: Goodtime Charlie 02:30

3 Road To Utopia: It's Anybody's Spring

01:49

4 Road To Utopia: Personality 01:46

5 Road To Utopia: Welcome To My Dream 01:28

6 Road To Utopia: Put It There, Pal  01:52

7 Road To Utopia: Would You 01:32

8 Road To Utopia: Welcome To My Dream / Finale

03:11

9 Road To Rio: Overture  01:34

10 Road To Rio: Appalachicola, Fla. / The Swanee River / Carry Me Back To Old Virginny 04:04

11 Road To Rio: But Beautiful 01:48

12 Road To Rio: You Don't Have To Know the Language 04:04

13 Road To Rio: Diz Que Tem 00:59

14 Road To Rio: Experience 04:03

15 Road To Rio: Batuque Nio Morro / Finale 05:27

16 Road To Bali: Overture  01:28

17 Road To Bali: Chicago Style / The Whiffenpoof Song 04:22

18 Road To Bali: Moonflowers 02:41

19 Road To Bali: Dance / Hoot Mon 03:30

20 Road To Bali: The Witchcraft 00:58

21  Road To Bali: To See You Is To Love You

22 Road To Bali: The Merry-Go-Round Runaround

23 Road To Bali: Moonflowers

24 Road To Bali: The Wedding Ceremony

25 Road To Bali: Finale