| LC control no. | n 2006038770 |
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| Personal name heading | Hope, Dolores |
| Variant(s) | DeFina, Dolores Reade, Dolores |
| Found in | Bob Hope collection, 1940 (usage: Dolores Hope) LC data base, May 16, 2005 (hdg.: Hope, Dolores) Wikipedia WWW site, May 31, 2007 (Dolores Hope; b. Dolores DeFina, May 27, 1909, New York City; early 1930s had a brief singing career under the name Dolores Reade; m. Bob Hope 1934) New York times WWW site, Sept. 20, 2011 (in obituary published Sept. 19: Dolores Hope; b. Dolores DeFina, May 27, 1909, Harlem; changed her last name to Reade when she began a career as a nightclub singer; m. Bob Hope, 1934; d. Monday [Sept. 18, 2011], Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, aged 102; gave up her singing career to spend 69 years at the side of her husband, pursuing philanthropy and projecting with him the image of an enduring Hollywood marriage) |
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