Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope with Miss Castle

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/31b0216e4a43e07612d8231fa41f2e63

Title

Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope with Miss Castle

Date

1942

Description

Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph dated December 5, 1942 shows Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour with Miss Lillian Castle who, in the span of one year, knitted over 1128 woolen caps for American soldiers at a rate of three caps a day. Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour had wired Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to request that an Army-Navy "E" award be given to Miss Castle whose record was believed to be unequalled by any woman in the country. Miss Castle was a wardrobe woman on the set of the Hope-Lamour comedy, "They Got Me Covered." Army-Navy "E" awards were given to defense factories for outstanding effort in production of war equipment.

Subject

Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996
Hope, Bob,--1903-2003
Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Comedians--United States
Knitting--California--Los Angeles
Caps (Headgear)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits

Source

California Digital Library

Relation

https://thumbnails.calisphere.org/clip/150x150/fda4f591a483e6d6b4bb6de89efea568

Type

image

References

https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30806

Date

1942

Source

California Digital Library

Subject

Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996
Hope, Bob,--1903-2003
Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Comedians--United States
Knitting--California--Los Angeles
Caps (Headgear)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits

Citation

“Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope with Miss Castle,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed July 4, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/13748.

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