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Director
  
Melville Shavelson

Initial DVD release
  
November 21, 2000

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Comedy, Drama

Music director
  
Joseph J. Lilley

Country
  
United States

The Seven Little Foys movie poster

Release date
  
1955 (1955)

Writer
  
Melville Shavelson (written for the screen by), Jack Rose (written for the screen by)

Cast
  
Bob Hope
(Eddie Foy),
Milly Vitale
(Madeleine Morando Foy),
George Tobias
(Barney Green),
Angela Clarke
(Clara Morando),
Herbert Heyes
(Judge),
Richard Shannon
(Stage Manager)

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Tagline
  
The story of a husband who didn't have time to come home! Daddy couldn't get home, so the kids all trouped down to Broadway and got into the act. The incredible, incomparable story of America's most fabulous family!

The Seven Little Foys is a Technicolor in VistaVision 1955 film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. One highlight of the film is an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence with Bob Hope as Eddie Foy and James Cagney, who reprises his role as George M. Cohan. The story of Eddie Foy, Sr. and the Seven Little Foys inspired a TV version in 1964 and a stage musical version, which premiered in 2007, in addition to this film in 1955.

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Plot

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Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy (Bob Hope), who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine (Milly Vitale). While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven children. After the tragedy of the Iroquois Theater Fire threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his children are worth their weight in gold. The second eldest Foy, Charley, narrates the film.

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James Cagney reprises his role as George M. Cohan from the film Yankee Doodle Dandy for an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence.

Cast

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  • Bob Hope as Eddie Foy
  • Milly Vitale as Madeleine Morando Foy
  • George Tobias as Barney Green
  • Angela Clarke as Clara Morando
  • Herbert Heyes as Judge
  • Richard Shannon as Stage Manager
  • Billy Gray as Bryan Lincoln Foy
  • Lee Erickson as Charley Foy
  • Paul De Rolf as Richard Foy
  • Lydia Reed as Mary Foy
  • Linda Bennett as Madeleine Foy
  • Jimmy Baird as Eddie Foy Jr.
  • Tommy Duran as Irving Foy
  • Jimmy Conlin as Stage Mgr
  • James Cagney as George M. Cohan
  • Charley Foy as Narrator

    • Other versions

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  • Bob Hope hosted an hour-long TV version of The Seven Little Foys on January 24, 1964, as part of the NBC series Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre.
  • In 2007, the first stage musical version of The Seven Little Foys, written by Chip Deffaa (featuring songs made famous by the Foys, as well as originals by Deffaa), had its world premiere at Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. This version was presented at the York Theater in New York City, as part of its Developmental Reading Series in July 2012.

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    References

    The Seven Little Foys Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Seven Little Foys IMDb The Seven Little Foys themoviedb.org