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The Five Pennies

Danny Kaye (Actor), Barbara Bel Geddes (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,439 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Genre Documentary/Biography, Musicals & Performing Arts/Musicals/General
Format NTSC
Contributor Melville Shavelson, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Rose, Louis Armstrong, Danny Kaye See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 57 minutes

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BACK ON DVD! 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!

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.54 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Melville Shavelson
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 57 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2020
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Jack Rose
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount Pictures
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08P4XVC6G
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,439 ratings

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Patti
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Movie
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
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Great actors, good music, a favorite from my younger days.
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Cynthia E.
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy from Mark!
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024
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The dvd for my dad was in perfect condition and he was very happy to receive it. I appreciate the note from Mark (seller) and that I received the item before expected. Made me feel that he genuinely cares about his customers’ satisfaction. Thank you Mark!
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Denina Diaz
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
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I love this movie!!!!
It was a great watch n the quality of the movie was great
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Nick’s Wife
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for my Husband
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023
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He liked it because it brought him back memories
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5.0 out of 5 stars Movie worth a Million Pennies
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2007
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My grandmother introduced me to Danny Kaye movies starting with White Christmas and Court Jester. Later I found movies like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty that were just as funny. I was hooked on Danny Kaye the actor/comedian.

This is not one of his outrageously hilarious movies. It's sad and beautiful with a wonderful plotline. A wonderful cast compliments Danny Kaye and the musical score is fantastic-- very jazzy rag. Louis Armstrong duets with Danny Kaye in voice as well as trumpet (coronet). My favorite song has to be Lullabye in Ragtime, though. They manage to meld two different melodies perfectly.

The movie focuses on the life of Red Nichol (Danny Kaye) as a small-town coronet player trying to make it big in the music industry. He falls in love and gets married, but just as he's starting to make it to the big-time his wife gets pregnant. They take the baby on the road with them for as long as they can but it's no life for a child. Eventually she is sent to a boarding school where she contracts polio. Red is so overcome with guilt that he gives up everything he had in the music industry to help his daughter get well and walk again. By the time she's grown up and able to stand again she has forgotten that her father had ever been in the music industry. Red's wife and all his old band buddies want him to be happy and get back into music, but Red keeps falling into depression and punishing himself for his daughter's polio. It ends beautifully with all his band buddies turning out to hear him play and his daughter walking towards him without her cane and them dancing together. It makes me cry every time.

I would highly recommend this to anyone as a feel good, slice-of-life movie that both has it's joyous highs and rock-bottom lows.
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ellen cohen
4.0 out of 5 stars A trip down nostalgia lane...
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2007
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If you'd follow Danny Kaye anywhere, follow him here. He's at his clever, sometimes apparently improvisational musical best as he brings us the life of Loring "Red" Nichols, from the time Nichols brings his cornet to the big city, through the creation of his Dixieland Band, the 5 Pennies -- which gave a start to, incredibly, among others, the Dorseys, Gene Krupa, and Glenn Miller. The story is not the stuff of Pulitzer prizes, but it is very warm and it goes down easy. And I think what makes the film a standout and earns the stars is the foot-stomping dixieland music, and Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong--the two of them together doing the Saints and Bill Baily; goose bumpy; thrilling!! There is other music written and arranged by Kaye's wife, the extraordinarily talented, Sylvia Fine; and at least one song, Ragtime Lullabye, sung with Barbara Bel Geddes, which still affects me in the most lovely ways decades after I first heard it in the movie theatre. Here, on DVD and with the sound all cleaned up and presented in dolby digital, it's brand new all over again.

The reason I witheld the 5th star is ONLY because there are no extras presented with the disk. It would've been nice to have a trailer or whatever else might have been laying about to enhance the reasoning for the price.

Of course, for me--maybe for you, too, it mattered not. To spend a few hours watching Danny Kaye mugging, singing, acting, and filling the screen with his larger than life self is worth pretty much whatever the ticket says on it!
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Carolyn Hudson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great oldie Danny Kaye movie
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023
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I love Danny Kaye! He’s one of our best comedians of all time!! The dvd came in good time in great condition!! I’d order again.
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Charlies Pal
5.0 out of 5 stars A must if you are big band fan
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021
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If you like big band movies like 'The Glenn Miller Story" and the "Benny Goodman Story" then you will enjoy this 1959 movie. Red Skelton plays Red Nichols. Red Nichols and his 5 Pennys started in 1926 and over the years he had Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Gene Krupa as part of his band. Louie Armstrong, Barbare Bel Geddes and Tuesday Weld are in the cast. Danny Kaye stars as Red Nichols. There is a cameo by Bob Hope. The real Red Nichols plays all the coronet parts in the movie. The movie received 5 Academy Award nominations. Several great band numbers including Bill Bailey and my favorite Lullabye in Ragtime. A totally enjoyable movie.
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Lorne
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2024
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A very interesting historical story
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