THE FIVE PENNIES

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Drama, Family, Music
• Plot: 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.;
• Cast: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, Tuesday Weld, Ray Anthony, Shelly Manne, Ray Daley, Valerie Allen, Ned Glass, Eric Alden, Babette Bain, Bill Baldwin, Sheryn Banks, Earl Barton, Francesca Bellini, John Benson, Alexander Campbell, Cindy Carol, Ira Cook, Evelyn Cotton, Gabriel Curtiz, Paul Francis DeRolf, Lynn Fields, Don Gray, Norman Lee Harris, Len Hendry, Charles Herbert, Bob Hope, June Jocelyn, Dennis Kerlee, Hugh Lawrence, Mike Mahoney, Sidney Marion, Joe McTurk, Dick Nelson, Alan Paige, Yvonne Peattie, Jack Pepper, Frank Radcliffe, William Remick, Duncan Richardson, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Richard Shavelson, Paul Sullivan, Blanche Sweet, Terry Terrill, Lizanne Truex, Tito Vuolo, June White, Dick Whittinghill, Melville Shavelson
• Director: Melville Shavelson
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie