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Penny Serenade [DVD] [1941]
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Format:DVD
: Program Type:Movie
: Product Name:Penny Serenade [DVD] [1941]
: Studio:Willette Acquisition Corp.
: Product Tags:DVD
: Region Code:0
While listening to a recording of ""Penny Serenade,"" Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant), which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. While honeymooning in Japan, Julie and Roger are trapped in the 1923 earthquake, which results in her miscarriage and subsequent incapability to bear children. Upon their return to America, Roger becomes editor of a small-town newspaper, just scraping by financially. Despite their depleted resources, Julie and Roger want desperately to adopt a child. It seems hopeless until kindly adoption agency head Miss Oliver (Beulah Bondi) helps smooth their path. Alas, their happiness is once more short-lived: their new daughter, Trina (Eva Lee Kuney), succumbs to a sudden illness at the age of six. Reduced to hopelessness, Julie and Roger decide to dissolve their marriage, but Miss Oliver once more comes to the rescue. Sentimental in the extreme, Penny Serenade is also enormously effective, balancing moments of heartbreaking pathos with uproarious laughter. Only director George Stevens could have handled a scene with a copiously weeping Cary Grant without inducing discomfort or embarrassment in the audience. Since lapsing into the public domain in 1968 (though released by Columbia, the film was owned by Stevens' production firm), Penny Serenade has become almost as ubiquitous a cable-TV presence as It's a Wonderful Life.~Hal Erickson
Name : Irene Dunne: Role : Julie Gardiner Adams
Name : Cary Grant: Role : Roger Adams
Name : Beulah Bondi: Role : Miss Oliver
Name : Edgar Buchanan: Role : Applejack
Name : Ann Doran: Role : Dotty
Name : Eva Lee Kuney: Role : Trina, age 6
Name : Leonard Willey: Role : Dr. Hartley
Name : Wallis Clark: Role : Judge
Name : Walter Soderling: Role : Billings
Name : Al Seymour: Role : Bootlegger
Name : George Stevens: Role : Director
Name : George Stevens: Role : Producer
Name : Joseph Walker: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Morris W. Stoloff: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
Name : Otto Meyer: Role : Editor
Name : Lionel Banks: Role : Art Director
Name : Fred Guiol: Role : Associate Producer
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: Program Type:Movie
: Product Name:Penny Serenade [DVD] [1941]
: Studio:Willette Acquisition Corp.
: Product Tags:DVD
: Region Code:0
While listening to a recording of ""Penny Serenade,"" Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant), which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. While honeymooning in Japan, Julie and Roger are trapped in the 1923 earthquake, which results in her miscarriage and subsequent incapability to bear children. Upon their return to America, Roger becomes editor of a small-town newspaper, just scraping by financially. Despite their depleted resources, Julie and Roger want desperately to adopt a child. It seems hopeless until kindly adoption agency head Miss Oliver (Beulah Bondi) helps smooth their path. Alas, their happiness is once more short-lived: their new daughter, Trina (Eva Lee Kuney), succumbs to a sudden illness at the age of six. Reduced to hopelessness, Julie and Roger decide to dissolve their marriage, but Miss Oliver once more comes to the rescue. Sentimental in the extreme, Penny Serenade is also enormously effective, balancing moments of heartbreaking pathos with uproarious laughter. Only director George Stevens could have handled a scene with a copiously weeping Cary Grant without inducing discomfort or embarrassment in the audience. Since lapsing into the public domain in 1968 (though released by Columbia, the film was owned by Stevens' production firm), Penny Serenade has become almost as ubiquitous a cable-TV presence as It's a Wonderful Life.~Hal Erickson
Name : Irene Dunne: Role : Julie Gardiner Adams
Name : Cary Grant: Role : Roger Adams
Name : Beulah Bondi: Role : Miss Oliver
Name : Edgar Buchanan: Role : Applejack
Name : Ann Doran: Role : Dotty
Name : Eva Lee Kuney: Role : Trina, age 6
Name : Leonard Willey: Role : Dr. Hartley
Name : Wallis Clark: Role : Judge
Name : Walter Soderling: Role : Billings
Name : Al Seymour: Role : Bootlegger
Name : George Stevens: Role : Director
Name : George Stevens: Role : Producer
Name : Joseph Walker: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Morris W. Stoloff: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
Name : Otto Meyer: Role : Editor
Name : Lionel Banks: Role : Art Director
Name : Fred Guiol: Role : Associate Producer
[!Program Type:Movie!] [!Product Name:Penny Serenade [DVD] [1941!]] [!Studio:Willette Acquisition Corp.!] [!Product Tags:DVD!] [!Region Code:0!] [!Irene Dunne:Julie Gardiner Adams!] [!Cary Grant:Roger Adams!] [!Beulah Bondi:Miss Oliver!] [!Edgar Buchanan:Applejack!] [!Ann Doran:Dotty!] [!Eva Lee Kuney:Trina, age 6!] [!Leonard Willey:Dr. Hartley!] [!Wallis Clark:Judge!] [!Walter Soderling:Billings!] [!Al Seymour:Bootlegger!] [!George Stevens:Director!] [!George Stevens:Producer!] [!Joseph Walker:Cinematographer!] [!Morris W. Stoloff:Musical Direction/Supervision!] [!Otto Meyer:Editor!] [!Lionel Banks:Art Director!] [!Fred Guiol:Associate Producer!]
