The Five Pennies (1959)
Release Date: Jun 18, 1959 Wide
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The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and details his self-destructive streak and (seeming) inability to conform to changing musical tastes. Weaving in and out of the main story is a sentimental subplot concerning Nichols' physically impaired
Jun 18, 1959 Wide
Dec 13, 2005
Paramount Home Video
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Danny Kaye
Loring "Red" Nichols -
Barbara Bel Geddes
Bobbie Meredith (Willa ... -
Louis Armstrong
Himself -
Harry Guardino
Tony Valani -
Tuesday Weld
Dorothy Nichols 12-14 -
Susan Gordon
Dorothy Nichols ages 6-... -
Bob Crosby
Wil Paradise -
Ray Anthony
Jimmy Dorsey -
Bobby Troup
Arthur Schutt -
Shelly Manne
Dave Tough -
Ray Daley
Glenn Miller -
Valerie Allen
Tommye Eden (Tony's Dou... -
Ned Glass
Murray -
Bob Hope
Himself -
Richard Shavelson
Party -
Blanche Sweet
Bit -
Earl Barton
Choreographer
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A bit of a sprightly-tragic mess, but if one doesn't try to sum up its parts, it's plenty entertaining in a nostalgic, old-movie way.
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