Bob Hope career—to later create variations of the song to fit specific circumstances, such as bidding farewell to troops while on tour or mentioning the names of towns in which he was performing. As a movie star, Hope was best known for such comedies as "My Favorite Brunette" and the highly successful "Road" movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The series consists of seven films made between 1940 and 1962 -- "Road to Singapore" (1940), "Road to Zanzibar" (1941), "Road to Morocco" (1942), "Road to Utopia" (1946), "Road to Rio" (1947), "Road to Bali" (1952), and "The
Road to ... "Road to..." movie was planned, titled "Road to the Fountain of Youth"; however, Crosby died that year of a heart attack. In 1947, Astor Pictures released a compilation film of several of Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects called "The Road to Hollywood" to evoke the series. The United States Navy also commissioned Hope and Crosby to produce the 1945 short film "Road to Home". In Sweden, the first film was given the title "Två glada sjömän går iland" ("Two Jolly Sailors Go Ashore"), which led to the subsequent films in the series all being given a title beginning with "Två