Entertainer delores hope biography

Dolores Hopewas an American singer, philanthropist and the widow of actor and comedian Bob Hope.

She was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx.

She is of Italian and Irish descent. During the 1930s, she began her professional singing career, and changed her name from Dolores DeFina to Dolores Reade upon the advice of her agent. In 1933, after appearing at the Vogue Club, a Manhattan nightclub, Hope was introduced to Bob Hope.

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The couple were married 19 Feb 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania and later adopted four children at The Cradle in Evanston, Illinois: Eleanora, Anthony, Linda, and Kelly. In the 1940s, Dolores began helping Bob on his tours entertaining U.S.

troops overseas and she would continue to do so for over 50 years. In 1990, she was the only female entertainer allowed to perform in Saudi Arabia. At 83 she recorded her first CD, Dolores Hope: Now and Then. She followed this with three additional albums and also recorded a Christmas