The Five Pennies

Directed by Melville Shavelson
Not Rated
June 18, 1959    1h 57mDrama, Biography,
7.193%6.8
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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.
  • Danny KayeRed Nichols
  • Barbara Bel GeddesWila Stutsman
  • Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong
  • Harry GuardinoTony Valani
  • Bob CrosbyWil Paradise
  • Bobby TroupArtie Schutt
  • Susan GordonYoung Dorothy Nichols
  • Tuesday WeldTeenaged Dorothy Nichols
  • Ray AnthonyJimmy Dorsey
  • Shelly ManneDave Tough
  • Ray DaleyGlenn Miller
  • Valerie AllenTommye Eden
  • Cindy CarolGirl at Birthday Party
  • Robert BanasDancer at College Prom
  • Toby MichaelsGirl at Birthday Party
  • Charles HerbertPatient
  • John BensonMusician
  • Earl BartonChoreographer
  • Herschel GrahamHotel Guest (uncredited)
  • Lynn FieldsGirl at Birthday Party (uncredited)

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