Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ...
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Title: The Five Pennies (1959)
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| Danny Kaye | ... | 'Red' Nichols | |
| Barbara Bel Geddes | ... | Willa Stutsman | |
| Louis Armstrong | ... | Louis Armstrong | |
| Harry Guardino | ... | Tony Valani | |
| Bob Crosby | ... | Wil Paradise | |
| Bobby Troup | ... | Artie Schutt | |
| Susan Gordon | ... | Dorothy Nichols - Ages 6 to 8 | |
| Tuesday Weld | ... | Dorothy Nichols - Age 13 | |
| Ray Anthony | ... | Jimmy Dorsey | |
| Shelly Manne | ... | Dave Tough | |
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| Valerie Allen | ... | Tommye Eden | |
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Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out. Written by Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
August 1959 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Las cinco monedas See more »Filming Locations:
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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(1927) (uncredited)
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by George Whiting
Played by Bob Crosby and the band in rehearsal
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Keep an eye out for a cameo by Bob Hope and the crack Danny Kaye makes about him, as he, Barbara Bel Geddes and a very young Tuesday Weld wait to get into the Brown Derby restaurant. See more »Goofs
After Red and Willa have left the club and are traveling home, the cars seen through the rear window of the taxicab are distinctly 1940's to 1950's vehicles which were nonexistent in 1924. See more »Soundtracks
My Blue Heaven(1927) (uncredited)
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by George Whiting
Played by Bob Crosby and the band in rehearsal
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This is an excellent musical in the old style where the songs either help progress the plot or fit in with the story line. All the music is well done. How can you lose with Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong singing your songs? Just heard that Susan Gordon (she played the daughter at 6) is on broadway in a play after 35 years away from the stage. Enjoy.