Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dolores Hope, DC SG was an American singer, philanthropist and wife of actor/comedian Bob Hope. She was born Dolores L. DeFina in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood of Italian and Irish descent and raised in The Bronx. After the death of her bartender father, Jack DeFina, in 1925, she and her younger sister, Mildred, were raised in the Bronx by their mother, Theresa DeFina, who worked as a saleslady in a drygoods store. During the 1930s, after working as a model, DeFina began her professional singing career under the name Dolores Reade on the advice of her agent. In 1933, after appearing at the Vogue Club, a Manhattan nightclub, Reade was introduced to Bob Hope. The couple reportedly were married on February 19, 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania. They later adopted four children from The Cradle in Evanston, Illinois: Eleanora, Linda, Kelly, and Anthony