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The Five Pennies is a 1959 American semi-biographical musical film starring Danny Kaye as jazz cornet player and bandleader Loring "Red" Nichols. Other cast members include Barbara Bel Geddes , Louis Armstrong , Harry Guardino , Bob Crosby , Bobby Troup , Susan Gordon , and Tuesday Weld .
The Five Pennies is a 1959 film based on the life of cornet player Red Nichols, starring Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong. It follows his rise and fall in the jazz scene and his family struggles with polio.
Jul 19, 2009 · 2.25K subscribers. 590. 133K views 14 years ago. My father had seen this film in a New York cinema,while he was waiting for his ship,in the late '50s... One of the most tender, moving films I have...
The film tells the story of Loring "Red" Nichols, a cornet player who founded the Five Pennies jazz band in the 1920s. It features Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong and other stars in a colorful and nostalgic adaptation of Nichols' life.
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 ...
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 runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through barriers to achieve success.
In this film based on a true story, Red Nichols (Danny Kaye) moves from his small town to New York City to become a jazz musician. Although he...
