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.

Brief synopsis, via IMDb:

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

Summary from the DVD case's back cover:

After the costume comedy "Casanova's Big Night," Bob Hope decided to tackle a more serious role in the Paramount's 1955 film "The Seven Little Foys." Hope plays real-life vaudeville star Eddie Foy, who had always performed as a "single" act on stage. But when his wife passes away, Foy must incorporate his seven children into the act in order to keep custody. Now, not only is he no longer a solo performer, but his adorable children are stealing the limelight. The film's real highlight comes during a friar's roast as Foy's friend George M. Cohan joins him for some impromptu comedy and a show-stopping dance number. James Cagney reprises his Oscar-winning role as Cohan from "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The film offered longtime collaborators, Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, their directing and producing debuts. Previously the two collaborated on such Bob Hope screenplays as "Sorrowful Jones," "The Princess and the Pirate," and "My Favorite Brunette." Shavelson and Rose also received an Oscar nomination for their Foys screenplay. 

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