Personal Life
Foy sent a $25 bill to a New York telephone company in 1920, requesting that it correct its errors. She said that she had been forced to get out of bed three times in a single week because of wrong numbers.
She was called the sweetest girl in the world by the New York American Legion. The phrase was uttered at a Legion banquet which convened at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1923.
Foy was in an auto accident near Westerly, Rhode Island in July 1931. Eddie Foy, Lenore Ulric, and Sidney Blackmer were with her in the wreck, but no one was injured. Comedian Eddie Foy was no relation to Gloria.
She married a broker, Easterday, in July 1924. Later she married stage actor Alan Edwards. Edwards and Foy were seen together at the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles) in May 1934.
Foy became an aviator and soloed for the first time in August 1933.
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