The Five Pennies (1959)

Movie Details

Original Title The Five Pennies

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 0.6

Cast

Danny Kaye

Red Nichols

Popularity: 2.2

Barbara Bel Geddes

Wila Stutsman

Popularity: 3.1

Louis Armstrong

Popularity: 1.4

Harry Guardino

Tony Valani

Popularity: 2.8

Bob Crosby

Wil Paradise

Popularity: 0.2

Bobby Troup

Artie Schutt

Popularity: 2.5

Susan Gordon

Young Dorothy Nichols

Popularity: 0.4

Tuesday Weld

Teenaged Dorothy Nichols

Popularity: 2.6

Ray Anthony

Jimmy Dorsey

Popularity: 0.1

Shelly Manne

Dave Tough

Popularity: 0.6

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Ray Daley

Glenn Miller

Popularity: 0.1

Valerie Allen

Tommye Eden

Popularity: 3.0

Key Crew

Director Melville Shavelson

Screenplay Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

Producer Jack Rose

Editor Frank P. Keller

Production

Dena Productions

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Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 8/10

Sep 20, 2020

Mr. Paradise, I play New Orleans style. You know, it's the newest thing. As a matter of fact I got an arrangement right here of the very number that you're doing. The Five Pennies is a musical biopic of jazz great Red Nichols, who is here played by Danny Kaye. As the famed Dixieland cornetist, he ... Read more

r96sk 7/10

Oct 22, 2020

This one leaves a strange feeling. I look back on <em>'The Five Pennies'</em> in two parts. The first half of the film is uninteresting and slow, but once the story gets set and the second half comes to fruition it turns into something rather touching - which I didn't expect at all. By the end, I ... Read more