# The Seven Little Foys, Together Again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870 "2003-04-24T15:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/1 "2003-04-24T15:26:21Z")
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Irving Foy, the youngest and last survivor of the famed “Seven Little Foys” vaudeville act, has died. He was 94. Foy joined his parents, brothers and sisters in the act “Eddie Foy Sr. and the Seven Little Foys” that crisscrossed the country from 1912 to 1928. His father had been a famous solo entertainer for years before bringing his family into the act. The other six siblings were Brian, Charlie, Dick, Eddie, Mary and Madeline. Madeline died in 1988, leaving her brother as the act’s only remaining survivor. The Foys performed their singing, dancing and slapstick comedy from New York City’s Palace Theater to the Los Angeles Orpheus Theater. They shared billing with such luminaries as Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley. The family’s story was retold in the 1955 film “The Seven Little Foys,” starring Bob Hope as Eddie Sr. and James Cagney as showman George M. Cohan. Eddie Foy Sr. died in 1928, but Irving and several of his family members continued their entertainment careers, said Frank Foy, Irving Foy’s son. The best known were Eddie Foy Jr., who was in a number of films, sometimes playing his own father in biographies such as “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” and Bryan Foy, who was active as a producer and director. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/2 "2003-04-24T17:21:22Z")
When I read your thread title, **Eve** , my assumption was that Bob Hope had died. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/3 "2003-04-24T18:34:43Z")
And also starring Jerry “Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver” Mathers as one of the kids. Damn, I saw that movie as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/4 "2003-04-24T22:34:39Z")
Wow. That’s fascinating news, Eve. Broadway fans will remember Eddie Foy, Jr. as the character Hines, the time-study man, from the original cast of “The Pajama Game.” (He repeated the role in the film version.) ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/5 "2003-04-26T06:08:23Z")
You know, Eve, I read that in the paper today and wondered if you’d heard. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/6 "2003-04-26T19:56:09Z")
I assume he did not donate his heart to a lady named Maude when he died? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/7 "2003-04-26T22:33:58Z")
there was a eddie foy in the iroquois fire, any relation? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seven-little-foys-together-again/170870/8 "2003-04-26T22:41:15Z")
Yep, that was the dad, Eddie, Foy, Sr., a very big B’way and vaudeville star.