Just a century ago Eddie Foy was the consummate stage comedian. A versatile performer, Foy contributed to the development of popular theater from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, from poverty-inspired Irish two-acts to lavish musical comedies. This first-ever biography of Foy tells the story of his indigent childhood in New York's Bowery and in Chicago, his tough uphill climb as a "variety artist" at Western outposts, his success in vaudeville and Broadway, and his arrival as a national icon with the Seven Little Foys. Foy's career mirrored the growth of popular theater entertainment in America. Exhaustively researched, this work contains many rare personal photographs from the Foy family archives.

Updated and upgraded Eddie Foy. This book is your ultimate resource for Eddie Foy. Here you will find the most up-to-date 85 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Eddie Foy's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Joan of Ozark, Yankee Doodle Dandy - Cast, The Kraft Music Hall - Radio, The Earl and the Girl, Powder Town - Cast, Leathernecking - Cast, Mae Busch - Early life and career, Ginger Rogers - Vaudeville and Broadway, The Seven Little Foys - Plot, Billy Gray (actor) - Early roles, Mort Drucker - Other work, John Henry Devereux - 225-227 King St. Academy of Music/Riviera Theatre, Iroquois Theater Fire - In popular culture, Frontier Marshal (1939 film), Frontier Marshal (1939 film) - Cast, At Home Abroad - Musical numbers, Lucky Me (film) - Cast, Show Girl, Fannie Ward - Career, The Pajama Game - The Three of Us (Me, Myself and I), Lucky Me (film) - Plot, William Collier, Sr. - Career, Eddie Foy, Jr., The Pajama Game - Original Broadway, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood - Cast, The Farmer Takes a Wife - Film adaptations, Eddie Foy, Sr. - Return to Chicago, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (New Rochelle, NY), Joan of Ozark - Cast, Iroquois Theater Fire - The fire, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre - Overview, The Gisele MacKenzie Show - Episode overview, Lois Weber - Bosworth, The Seven Little Foys - Cast, At Home Abroad - Productions, Bells Are Ringing (film) - Production Notes, Motion Picture Hospital - Famous residents, Queen of the Night Clubs - Cast, Bryan Foy, 1960 in music - Musical films, and much more...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.

In this candid autobiography, Eddie Foy, third in his name, grandson of Vaudevillian icon and son of a Broadway legend, takes us through the heartache and triumphs of his life. Eddie Foy III's illustrious career as a Hollywood casting director spanned more than four decades, which he honestly recounts with his behind the scenes anecdotes and humorous insight. No topic is off topic as Eddie covers his relationships with Hollywood elite and divulges his own pains, both personally and professionally. "Show Business, The Foy Way: Memoir of a Hollywood Casting Director" illustrates one man's journey: at times dark and gritty and other times joyous and magical.

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.

Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films. This book details the careers of 300 performers who went from stage to screen in all genres of film. A few made only a single movie, others hundreds. Each entry includes highlights of the performer's career, a list of stage appearances and a filmography.