SEALED NEW BIOPIC DVD: THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS (1955) Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, James Cagney
Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Not Rated - Based on True Story
DVD issued 2001
Factory-sealed, brand-new DVD (please see photos), plastic outer wrapping may have a few minor imperfections from storage; DVD has never been opened nor played. Full screen, Dolby Digital Sound, feature running time: approx. 95 minutes, color, Region 1 (US, Canada, US Territories).
Cast members include Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias, James Cagney, Angela Clarke, Billy Gray, Lydia Reed, Herbert Heyes, Richard Shannon, Lee Erickson, Jimmy Baird, and others. Five-year-old Jerry Mathers was uncredited for his role as young Bryan Lincoln Foy (Iroquois Theater Fire scene), Billy Gray played the older Bryan for the rest of the film.
Directed by Melville Shavelson, costumes by Edith Head. DVD bonus features include full scene access, filmography, Bob Hope biography, interactive menus.
James Cagney won an Oscar for playing Broadway producer George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). He agreed to play Cohan again in this film on condition that he would not be paid for the role. He did the role as a tribute to Eddie Foy, who had generously provided occasional meals for struggling young actors, including Cagney, in 1920s New York.
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