The Five Pennies (1959)
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Directors
Melville Shavelson
Cast
Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby
The story
Red Nichols is a small-town cornet player who moves to New York City in the 1920s and finds work in a band led by Wil Paradise. He meets and marries singer Willia Stutsman, a.k.a. "Bobbie Meredith".
Genres
Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, comedy film, musical film
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