THE SWELL HEAD MOVIE CAST - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: BESSIE LOVE, EDDIE FOY JR. - HFSID 322130

THE SWELL HEAD MOVIE CAST: BESSIE LOVE and EDDIE FOY, JR.
Shown together in a still from the film
Photograph signed: "Sincerely/Eddie Foy Jr.", "Bessie Love". B/w, 8x10. Movie still from The Swell Head. BESSIE LOVE (1898-1986) was a film star of the silent era following her debut in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). She made a very successful transition to talking pictures, singing and dancing her way to an Oscar nomination in The Broadway Melody (1929). Love, who lived most of her last fifty years in London, continued to appear on stage and in occasional movies. The latter included Reds and Ragtime in 1981. EDDIE FOY, JR. (1905-1983) named for his famous vaudevillian father, appeared with his father and six brothers and sisters as The Seven Little Foys and was the only one to pursue a long acting career. (His sister Mary Foy, 1901-1987, also appeared in films during the 1920s and 1930s.) A dead ringer for his famous dad, Foy appeared on screen with his father and siblings in A Favorite Fool (1915). The multitalented actor and song and dance man was nominated for the 1958 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for Rumple. He had previously appeared on Broadway in The Pajama Game (1954), recreating his role for the 1957 film version. In all, he has over 70 movies and TV shows and 10 Broadway musicals and comedies to his credit. Among these are starring in the original 1961 production of Donnybrook! and the first hour-long sitcom, Fair Exchange (1962-1963), as well as portraying his father in four movies, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Bowed. Otherwise, fine condition.