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Bob hope shares some champagne and rubs noses with Carole Wilson at a benefit performance in Maple Leaf Gardens for the Charlie Conacher Cancer Resear(...)
Bob hope shares some champagne and rubs noses with Carole Wilson at a benefit performance in Maple Leaf Gardens for the Charlie Conacher Cancer Resear(...)

Bob hope shares some champagne and rubs noses with Carole Wilson at a benefit performance in Maple Leaf Gardens for the Charlie Conacher Cancer Resear(...)

Date1/5/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bob hope shares some champagne and rubs noses with Carole Wilson at a benefit performance in Maple Leaf Gardens for the Charlie Conacher Cancer Research Fund. The fund was established after Conacher: a Toronto Maple Leaf hockey right winger of the 1930s: died of cancer in 1967. Hope's gags and acts by other start entertained 16:500 people last night.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Object NumberTSPA_0055491F
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