Editing Bob Hope (section)

=== Marriage and relationships ===
[[File:Bob Hope and family.jpg|thumb|The Hope family; Back, from left: Tony, Dolores, and Linda; Front, from left: Kelly, Bob, and Nora]]

Hope was briefly married to vaudeville partner Grace Louise Troxell (1912–1992), a secretary from Chicago, Illinois, who was the daughter of Edward and Mary (née McGinnes) Troxell. They were married on January 25, 1933, in Erie, Pennsylvania.{{sfn|Quirk|1998|p=66}} They divorced in November 1934.<ref name="Sheridan 2014">{{cite news | last = Sheridan | first = Peter | url = http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/499930/Bob-Hope-the-bigamist | title = Bob Hope the Bigamist | work = [[Daily Express]] | date = August 16, 2014 | access-date = August 16, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140816091857/http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/499930/Bob-Hope-the-bigamist | archive-date = August 16, 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref>

The couple had shared headliner status with Joe Howard at the Palace Theatre in April 1931, performing "Keep Smiling" and the "Antics of 1931".<ref>The Scranton Republican, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday, April 27, 1931, p. 4</ref> They worked together at the RKO Albee, performing the "Antics of 1933" along with Ann Gillens and Johnny Peters in June of that year.<ref>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday, June 28, 1933, p. 35</ref> The following month, singer [[Dolores Hope|Dolores Reade]] joined Hope's vaudeville troupe and was performing with him at Loew's Metropolitan Theater. She was described as a "former [[Ziegfeld girl|Ziegfeld beauty]] and one of society's favorite nightclub entertainers, having appeared at many private social functions at New York, Palm Beach, and Southampton".<ref>Eagle Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, July 14, 1933, p. 5</ref>

His marriage to Reade was fraught with ambiguities. As [[Richard Zoglin]] wrote in his 2014 biography ''Hope: Entertainer of the Century'', {{blockquote|Bob and Dolores always claimed that they married in February 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania. But at that time, he was secretly married to his vaudeville partner Louise Troxell, after three years together on and off. I found divorce papers for Bob and Louise dated November 1934, so either Bob Hope was a bigamist, or he lied about marrying Dolores in February that year. He had actually married Louise in January 1933 in Erie when they were traveling on the vaudeville circuit. When he claimed he had married Dolores in Erie he was miles away in New York, on Broadway. More intriguing, there is no record anywhere of his marriage to Dolores, if it happened. And there are no wedding photos, either. But he never forgot Louise and quietly sent her money in her later years.<ref name="Sheridan 2014" />}}

Dolores had been one of Hope's co-stars on Broadway in ''Roberta''. The couple adopted four children: Linda (in 1939), Anthony "Tony" (1940–2004),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holley |first1=Joe |title=Bob Hope's Son, Lobbyist Anthony Hope, 63, Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/07/04/bob-hopes-son-lobbyist-anthony-hope-63-dies/e1e4202b-be7d-4415-9d08-9211c14ff4f2/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref> Kelly (1946), and Eleanora "Nora" (1946).{{sfn|Quirk|1998|pp=86–87}} Bob and Dolores were also the legal guardians of Tracey, the youngest daughter of famous New York City bar owner [[Toots Shor|Bernard "Toots" Shor]] and his wife, Marion "Baby" Shor.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Krell |first1=David |title=Bob Hope |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bob-hope/ |website=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref> In 1935, the couple lived in Manhattan. In 1937, they moved to 10346 Moorpark Street in the [[Toluca Lake, Los Angeles|Toluca Lake]] neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they would reside until their respective deaths.<ref>1940 US Census via Ancestry.com</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/music/dolores-hope-bob-hopes-widow-dies-at-102.html|title = Dolores Hope, Singer and Bob Hope's Widow, Dies at 102|date = September 20, 2011|accessdate = February 3, 2022|last = Gates|first = Anita|work = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref>
[[File:Campaign event in California - NARA - 194741.jpg|thumb|From left to right: [[Spiro Agnew|Spiro]] and [[Judy Agnew]], Bob and [[Dolores Hope]], [[Richard Nixon|Richard]] and [[Pat Nixon]], [[Nancy Reagan|Nancy]] and [[Ronald Reagan]] during a campaign stop for the [[Nixon-Agnew ticket]] in California, 1971]]
Hope had a reputation as a womanizer and continued to see other women throughout his marriage.{{sfn|Quirk|1998|pp=82, 90}} Zoglin wrote that Hope had several "affairs with chorus girls, beauty queens, singers and showbiz wannabes". Women who have claimed to have been romantically linked to Hope include [[Barbara Payton]], [[Marilyn Maxwell]], and [[Rosemarie Frankland]].{{sfn|O'Dowd|2006|p=65}}{{sfn|O'Dowd|2006|pp=66, 67}}{{sfn|O'Dowd|2006|p=311}}{{sfn|O'Dowd|2006|p=313}}{{sfn|O'Dowd|2006|p=313}}<ref name="Arthur Marx 1993"/>