Pennies from Heaven (1936)

Comedy Drama Music

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather, and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.

Updated May 28 2020

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US -

1936-11-25

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singer welfare

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Runtime: 81 mins Rating: 9.0 Tag Line: FUN...when Crosby croons himself out of jail and lands on a merry-go-round with the meanest of brats!

Cast

Tom Dugan

Crowbar Miller

Donald Meek

Gramp Smith

Bing Crosby

Larry Poole

Louis Armstrong

Henry

Nydia Westman

Slavey - Hotel Maid

Nana Bryant

Miss Howard

John Gallaudet

J. C. Hart

Madge Evans

Susan Sprague

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Crew

Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Artist

Glenn Rominger

Sound

Stephen Goosson

Art Direction

Jo Swerling

Screenplay

Norman Z. McLeod

Director

John Rawlins

Editor

Sam Nelson

Assistant Director

William Rankin

Story

Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Artist

Glenn Rominger

Sound

Stephen Goosson

Art Direction

Jo Swerling

Screenplay

Norman Z. McLeod

Director

John Rawlins

Editor

Sam Nelson

Assistant Director

William Rankin

Story

Robert Pittack

Director of Photography

Emanuel Cohen

Producer

Katherine Leslie Moore

Novel

William Grant Still

Original Music Composer

Earl Rettig

Unit Manager

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