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THE BOB HOPE CHEVY SHOW
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Television
1957
00:47:00:00 B W 1957 ms The new 1957 CHEVROLET (with continuing COMMERCIALS throughout the program as well as the program on 51AW). 00:48:00:00 B W 1957 ms cu BOB HOPE as host of TV show...jokes about the latest Hollywood Academy Awards Oscar nominations. 00:56:32:00 B W 1957 ms Skit features HOPE and WALLY COX in a farce about show biz and the "bobby soxer" rage over pop singers (in particular, a fun parody of the Elvis Presley phenomenon). 01:02:00:00 B W 1957 ms cu Cox (as "Melvin Pretzel") appears on the STEVE ALLEN show (who introduces "Melvin") parody of screaming teens in audience Cox half sings half yodels "There Is A Tavern In The Town" (which he recorded in the same way) -- Cox is shown singing from the neck up in a sly takeoff of the Elvis Presley treatment on the Ed Sullivan show!! 01:07:00:00 B W 1957 ms cu Jocular and pudgy Western Union messenger sings and wiggles his ears. 01:07:27:00 B W 1957 ms ws Musical production number features ROSEMARY CLOONEY singing "Mangos" with the GORDON JENKINS ORCH. 01:12:10:00 B W 1957 ws ms Sitcom about a jumbled marriage features HOPE, COX, and LANA TURNER. 01:26:22:00 B W 1957 ws ms Comic sketch about "bad men" of the West features, HOPE and CLOONEY. Cowboy HOPE and his double ( at 1:32:18). 01:34:59:00 B W 1957 ms An extended curtain call for glamorous and a very curvaceous LANA TURNER, who, along with HOPE, sings "Will You Still Be Mine ? " with lyrics altered for whimsical repartee
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