The Seven Little Foys (1955)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Melville Shavelson

Writers:

Melville Shavelson (written for the screen by) and
Jack Rose (written for the screen by)

Release Date:

30 September 1955 (Finland)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Drama | Family

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!

Plot:

After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.

Plot Keywords:

Vaudeville | Ballerina | Italian | 1900s | Fire

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

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
Billy Gray	...	Bryan Lincoln Foy, as a teen
Lee Erickson	...	Charley Foy
Paul De Rolf	...	Richard Foy
Lydia Reed	...	Mary Foy
Linda Bennett	...	Madeleine Foy
Jimmy Baird	...	Eddie Foy Jr.
Tommy Duran	...	Irving Foy
James Cagney	...	George M. Cohan
Charley Foy	...	Narration (voice)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (MPAA rating: certificate #17278) | UK:U | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

This film and Beau James (1957) are the two serious dramas that Bob Hope starred in.

Quotes:

Clara Morando: Signor Foy, we are going to have a baby.
Madeleine Morando Foy: I wanted to tell you, Eddie, but Clara said to wait.
Barney Green: If you're interested, it happened in Capri.
Eddie Foy: ...Oh, well, thank you. Thank you, one and all. It is nice of you to let me im on it. There any other late bulletins?
[to Clara]
Eddie Foy: You seem to know everything! What's it gonna be - a boy or a girl?
Clara Morando: It will be an Italian!
Eddie Foy: It's one thing we're getting through customs!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bob Hope at 100 (2003) (TV)

Soundtrack:

I'm the Greatest Father Of Them All

"7 Little Foys" Are Great and So Is the Picture

***1/2 for this Bob Hope vehicle made in 1955.

The biography details the life of song and dance man Eddie Foy. Hope has the usual right wit and sarcastic blend to produce a wonderful performance. His dancing is exactly the right step as well.

He meets and marries a ballerina played by Millie Vitale. The children start coming real fast. Each time, Vitale's sister, a tough-looking strong woman named Clara, announces: "We're pregnant!"

7 little Foys enter the world. Eddie is too busy in his show business career and is rarely home. Go know that Vitale's cough is more serious than a cold. One night he arrives home to the news that his beloved wife had died during the day. Stricken with disbelief and sadness, Eddie vows to keep the family together and engages the children to appear in his act.

Meanwhile, Aunt Clara schemes to have Eddie declared unsuitable so that she can gain control of the children.

A fine musical and dance sequence with James Cagney reprising his role of George M. Cowan is shown in this delightful film.