Spencer Gordon Bennet
Spencer Gordon Bennet( January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director.
Known as the" King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director.
The Seven Little Foys
The Seven Little Foys is a Technicolor in VistaVision 1955 comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy.
One highlight of the film is an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence with Bob Hope as Eddie Foy and James Cagney, who reprises his role as George M. Cohan.
The story of Eddie Foy Sr. and the Seven Little Foys inspired a TV version in 1964 and a stage musical version, which premiered in 2007.
Charley Foy
Charley Foy( June 12, 1898 – August 22, 1984) was an American actor of both the vaudeville stage and film.
Son of Eddie Foy Sr., he was one of the famous" The Seven Little Foys", the seven children of the senior Foy, who joined him on stage in vaudeville.
After beginning his career in Vaudeville, he had a film career which spanned 40 years, although he was only truly active for only seven of them, from 1936 through 1943.
Melville Shavelson
Melville Shavelson( April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West( WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Hop Harrigan (serial)
Hop Harrigan( aka Hop Harrigan America's Ace of the Airways)( 1946) is a Columbia film serial, based on the Hop Harrigan comic books by DC Comics.
The serial comprised 15 two- reel chapters with Derwin Abrahams as the director, and Sam Katzman, the producer.
Columbia Pictures was one of the last Hollywood studios to continue in postwar years with the serial format.
By 1947, Universal Pictures discontinued their serials, with only Republic Pictures and Columbia continuing with serials.
The last serial was Columbia's" Blazing the Overland Trail"( 1956).
Blazing the Overland Trail
Blazing the Overland Trail( 1956) is a Columbia Pictures serial directed by veteran serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet and produced by another serial specialist, Sam Katzman.
It was the 57th and last serial produced by Columbia and the last serial ever produced by any studio( both major or minor).
Republic Pictures, the only other serial- producing studio in the mid 1950s, had ceased its serial production the previous year with" King of the Carnival".
Milly Vitale
Camilla" Milly" Vitale( 16 July 1933 – 2 November 2006) was an Italian actress.
She was the daughter of Riccardo Vitale( Rome Opera House Director, deceased 1979) and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski Vitale( deceased 1994).
She appeared in numerous post-war Italian films.
She appeared in a few Hollywood movies but never achieved star status like her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
In her most notable U.S. role, she appeared with Bob Hope as" Madeleine Morundo Foy" in" The Seven Little Foys"( 1956).
She was featured in" The Juggler" co-starring with Kirk Douglas( 1953) and in the epic film" War and Peace"( 1956).
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Jack Rose (screenwriter)
Jack Rose was an American screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire, and died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California.
Rose began writing gags for Milton Berle and radio lines for Bob Hope before moving to screenplays.
His first was 1943's" Road to Rio" starring Hope and Bing Crosby.
In 1955, Rose produced the Hope film" The Seven Little Foys", co-written and directed by his frequent collaborator Melville Shavelson.
He also wrote and produced a 1962 Dean Martin romantic comedy," Who's Got the Action?"
For television, Rose created and wrote for the 1968 – 1970 situation comedy" The Good Guys", starring Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, and Joyce Van Patten.
It ran for 42 episodes over one- and- a- half seasons.
Rose was nominated for Academy Awards three times for" The Seven Little Foys", 1958's" Houseboat", and 1973's" A Touch of Class".

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Seven Little Foys or Blazing The Overland Trail?
Answer: Blazing The Overland Trail