The Foy Family - Chips of the Old Block (1928)

Taking after their father, six of the seven offspring of Eddie Foy - who collectively are known as the Seven Little Foys - perform numbers from their vaudeville act. Accompanied by brother Richard on guitar, Madeline and Mary perform a song and dance number, "I Just Roll Along". Moderated by Irving, all six perform a comedy routine, which includes a dance number by Eddie Jr. They all sing "Bye, Bye Pretty Baby" with a few interruptions by Eddie Jr. Accompanied by off screen musicians, they conclude with a dance routine to "Smile" which features solos steps by five of the six.

[@scotnick59]

AMAZING Quality! That 🤪we can view this at all is a minor miracle😐

[@albertadriftwood3612]

One can only imagine this act, when the Little Foys were still children, taking the stage in a packed house consisting of an audience that loved them. It would have been such fun.

[@cmprovince]

Love it! In Vaudeville, if you could do five minutes of ANYTHING!! you could make a living.

[@johnreid4103]

It sounds like KZbin.

[@WildwoodClaire1]

Here's a bit of showbiz trivia: I read somewhere that Eddie Foy, Sr. was performing in Tombstone, AZ at the time of the so-called gunfight at the OK Corral.

[@Bill23799]

The Foy gals had some nice gams. They all grew up and were buried in my hometown of New Rochelle, NY. The Foy family home was located on Shore Rd and i remember passing by it as a boy in the 60's. Back then the house was run down and kids would throw rocks to break the windows. The Foy family donated their family plot of land to the City of New Rochelle with the stipulation that it would be used as a park for children.

[@jeffg1524]

Fascinating glimpse of what early vaudeville must have been like. Thx for the upload.

[@nakedandthetruth1726]

Wow! What a rare find! I just watched Bob Hope's version of The seven little Foys and searched em cuz I saw in the credits Foy..wanted to know if they're real..found an article then came back to KZbin to see if I could find Eddie Foy..and boom found this! Thanks for the upload!

[@Bill23799]

There were four films where Eddie Foy Jr. played his dad. One was " Frontier Marshall " and another was " I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy " with James Cagney.

[@sylviayoung1901]

I am friends with Chris Foy Son of Richard. What a crazy family history. Yes it is true about the OK Corral. Such an amazing part of American history. Truly worth reading about.

[@KathySmith-vd7hk]

I'm a buddy of Chris Foy, son of Irving. Must be a lot of Foys out there!

[@NewsHistorian]

Eddie Foy Senior and his son Brian were present at the infamous Iroquois Theater Fire in 1903 in Chicago. Both of them narrowly escaped but over 600 people did not.

[@jdiaz7483]

I enjoy musical history so I seek out trivia on old acts that interest me. I read that Bryan became a director of B movies, but a big hit of his was the film PT 109. Eddie Jr was in one of my favorite teen movies “Gidget goes Hawaiian’’ and he does a little ‘hoofing’ as they used to call it. Fun.

[@TylerMcNamer]

Nice dance moves, family!

[@sachseco]

amazing, Foy, sr., was born before the War Between the States & died after the 2nd WW, what a life!

[@NewsHistorian]

Actually he died in 1928.

[@hebneh]

This must have been what vaudeville was like, which millions of people sat and watched in theaters from the late 1800s into the 1930s. And mind you, these people were headliners at the top of the game in their time.

[@cmprovince]

Six of the seven appeared onscreen, doing a portion of their song-and-dance act, and Bryan directed.

[@mjpk6269]

You don't see THAT anymore... unfortunately.

[@duaneharris6415]

A very talented family just think if it was 11 foy children's but four died at early age

[@gwhanover9698]

One has to admit -- they don't seem all that good by today's standards, but they kept things moving really well. Eddie Jr. went on to a life in theater, the others not so much. Richard, the guitar player in the beginning died quite young.

[@HAM-sb2ns]

I imagine this was funnier live, I hope so.

[@rhythmfield]

Hacim Segdoh it’s awful isn’t it? I hope it made your audiences happy back then… Hasn’t aged well at all.

[@RRaquello]

Joe Foy played for the Red Sox in the 1967 World Series and later played for the Mets. I don’t think he was related.

[@ccbsnyc]

Oh, I didnt think it was that bad. I could see it being entertaining for a crowd that grew up at the turn of the century.

[@misterwhitman4368]

Why were only six of the seven little Foys in this production?

[@joeyronning3097]

Bryan was directing.

[@raffinataonline]

Does anyone know who is who?

[@safourgardpa5459]

Any way we could get a download of the original file?

[@larrybaker9924]

Not much passed for talent back in those days did it ?

[@sylviayoung1901]

@Larry Baker...you have no idea how difficult life was back then. To carve a living of entertainment in the days of the wild, wild west was insane for pennies to say the least.

[@pexxos1]

Mr. Baker, I don't know who you are, but judging by your comment, your are as ignorant as you are flippant. You can look up flippant since my guess is that you're unlettered.

[@roseterry2744]

Yeah. And they obviously didn't believe in rehearsals! Surprise!🥶

[@hockeygirl8401]

This is terrible. I guess it’s because I live in a different century. Just don’t understand how they became famous. Obviously nepotism Ha ha ha no pun intended

[@RRaquello]

They were a kid act and generally speaking kid acts don’t go very well when the kids grow up. Maybe in their kid prime about 10-15 years before this they would come across better. On the other hand there’s a film of Judy Garland and her two sisters when they were a kid act and how awful were they!

[@hockeygirl8401]

@@RRaquellothe horrid music is my problem. Yikes

[@sugerbill1936]

no they were so bad they were good

[@travs.d.8142]

More on the fabulous Foy Family here! Happy birthday, Eddie Foy! travsd.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/stars-of-vaudeville-130-eddie-foy-the-seven-little-foys-and-the-youngest-foy-of-all/