What is Dolores Hope?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox Person | image = Dolores hope.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Dolores in 1974 | name = Dolores Hope | birth_date = May 27, 1909 | birth_place = [[New York City]],<br>[[New York (state)|New York]],<br>[[United States]] | death_date = September 19, 2011 (aged 102) | death_place = [[Toluca Lake, Los Angeles]], [[California]], United States | death_cause = | restingplace = | spouse = [[Bob Hope]]<br>(m. 1934–2003, his death) | children = Eleanora, Anthony (dead), Linda, Kelly | occupation = Singer, [[philanthropist]] }} '''Dolores Hope''' (May 27, 1909 – September 19, 2011) was an [[Americans|American]] [[singer]]. She was the [[widow]] of [[Bob Hope]]. ==Early life== Hope was born Dolores DeFina on May 27, 1909. She was of [[Italy|Italian]] and [[Irish peopel|Irish]] [[ancestry]]. She was born and raised in [[New York City]]. She began her [[job|career]] in the 1930s. ==Marriage to Bob== In 1933, she met Bob Hope the first time in a [[Manhattan]] [[nightclub]]. They married in 1934. The couple [[adoption|adopted]] four children: Eleanora, Anthony, Linda and Kelly. She and her husband entertained U.S. [[soldier|troops]] from the 1940s until the 1990s. Dolores Hope did this job over the time of a half century until the 1990s. In 1990, she was the only female entertainer who was allowed to go to [[Saudi Arabia]]. ==Awards== She was often awarded for her work, for example with a star on the [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]] [[Walk of Fame]] and seven honorary [[Doctorates]]. A street was named after Dolores Hope in the [[Bronx]]. ==Later life== She was with her husband as he turned 100. Shortly after, and 69 years after their marriage, Bob Hope died in summer of 2003 at age 100. On May 27, 2009, Dolores Hope celebrated her 100th birthday. She died on September 19, 2011. ==Other websites== * {{imdb name|id=1052625}} * [http://www.bobhope.com/dolores.htm Dolores Hope biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/2