The Five Pennies
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Description

Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun. And Barbara Bel Geddes (decades before Dallas) and debuting teen Tuesday Weld add to the excellent performances in The Five Pennies, the success-tempered-with-tears biopic of jazz great Red Nichols (portrayed by Kaye). Superb, too, are the more than 20 tunes peppered throughout the film. Best of all: the Satchmo-Kaye "When The Saints Go Marching In" duet, with the legends scat singing a list of music world saints and adding a little "Frere Jacques" too!

Additional information

Directors

Melville Shavelson

Studio

Paramount

Subtitles

English (CC)

Released year

1959

Duration

1 h 57 min

Genres

Drama

Writers

Jack Rose
Melville Shavelson
Robert Smith

Size

6.83 GB (1080p HD)
3.14 GB (720p HD)
2.32 GB (SD)

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