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   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.

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   Reviews 92% Audience Score 500+ Ratings 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 experiences...

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   • Director: Melville Shavelson

   • Category: Musical
   • Actors: Danny Kaye

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   The Five Pennies is a solidly crafted movie that glosses over a lot of the real history of jazz. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2013. A bit of a sprightly-tragic mess, but if...

4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0052809The Five Pennies (1959) - IMDb

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   The Five Pennies: Directed by Melville Shavelson. With Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino. Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice.

   • 7.1/10 (2.1K)
   • Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

   • Director: Melville Shavelson
   • Release Date: 1959-08

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   Brief Synopsis. Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz.

   • Director: Melville Shavelson

   • Actors: Danny Kaye

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   Popular reviews. I didn’t have much patience for the family drama at the heart of Five Pennies when I was young, but this rewatch was such a lovely experience, rocketing the movie much higher on my Danny Kaye rankings list than expected.

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   Is the Five Pennies a good movie?

   • Two of the best films resulted to be ¨¨Cast a giant shadow¨ , an epic movie with all-star-cast dealing with the birth of Israel and one of his biggest hits was ¨Yours , mine and ours¨. The Five Pennies (1959) rating : 7/10 . Better than average. The flick will appeal to Jazz lovers and Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong fans. How long is The Five Pennies?

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   Is 'the Five Pennies' a good musical?

   • The End!" Alas, for all Jack's insights, The Five Pennies is an incredibly tedious, overly domesticated musical, a chore even for Danny Kaye's most rabid fans – although they might find his self-indulgent singing and mugging, corny lyrics and overblown verbal idiocies less embarrassing than the rest of us.

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   Is the Five Pennies based on a true story?

   • Rent The Five Pennies on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. 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.

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   Who were the members of Five Pennies?

   • The movie follows Red through his career as a great jazz trumpeter who gives up music for family. A must see for Danny Kaye and Big Band fans. Some of the members of Red's "Five Pennies", as his band was known, were Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey. Louis Armstrong puts on a stellar musical performance as himself.

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   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.