The Six Willys

The Six Willys were a juggling act comprised of six siblings belonging to the Hoffmann family who came to the US in 1939 fleeing northern Italy during the height of WWII. Featured in this film, See My lawyer, is William Hoffmann, his four brothers and sister, and William Hoffmann's wife Elizabeth. This is the only featured film in which they performed. However, film footage does exist of the Six Willys as recorded by Ripley's Believe It or Not, they were coined the fastest juggling troupe in the world at the time.