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Bob Hope, whose radio and television Halloween broadcasts carried trick-or-treating into American living rooms

Bob Hope, whose radio and television Halloween broadcasts carried trick-or-treating into American living rooms — historic image
Bob Hope, whose radio and television Halloween broadcasts carried trick-or-treating into American living rooms. Historic image from the Chapter 1 — Houdini and Hollywood collection.

Bob Hope, whose radio and television Halloween broadcasts carried trick-or-treating into American living rooms

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Hollywood Halloween Horrors

The Halloween Library, Volume I · by Edward Moran and James Lantos · Globe Pequot

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NotesBob Hope, whose radio and television Halloween broadcasts carried trick-or-treating into American living rooms. Source: Bob Hope, NBC Television publicity photograph, 1969. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.
SubjectsFigure 1.5 in Hollywood Halloween Horrors
ReferenceFig 1.5 F0105a Bob_Hope_1969_Publicity_Photo

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