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Comedy Tonight: The Great Lover

on BBC One London

A season of comedy films with the great laughter-makers.
Starring Bob Hope
with Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young

Complications aboard an ocean liner when Bob Hope, as the leader of a group of 'Boy Foresters', becomes involved with an attractive duchess and a crooked gambler.
Richard Lyon, who plays Stanley, the head boy of the pack of 'Foresters'. is the adopted son of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels and appeared with them in the successful Life with the Lyons series. Jack Benny makes a brief appearance when Bob enquires if he can change a 100-dollar bill...

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Edmund Beloin
Writer:
Melville Shavelson
Writer:
Jack Rose
Director:
Alexander Hall
Freddie Hunter:
Bob Hope
Duchess Alexandria:
Rhonda Fleming
C.J. Dabney:
Roland Young
Grand Duke Maximilian:
Roland Culver
Stanley:
Richard Lyon
Higgins:
Jim Backus
Himself:
Jack Benny

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