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Penny Serenade
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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.
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.
Actors:
Irene Dunne,
Cary Grant,
Beulah Bondi,
Edgar Buchanan,
Ann Doran,
Eva Lee Kuney,
Leonard Willey,
Wallis Clark,
Walter Soderling,
Jane Biffle,
Dorothy Adams,
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Irene Dunne
20 December 1898, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Cary Grant
18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
Beulah Bondi
3 May 1889, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Edgar Buchanan
20 March 1903, Humansville, Missouri, USA
Ann Doran
28 July 1911, Amarillo, Texas, USA
Eva Lee Kuney
April 24, 1934 in Glendale, California, USA
Leonard Willey
15 December 1882, Warwickshire, England, UK
Wallis Clark
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
Walter Soderling
April 13, 1872 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Jane Biffle
Dorothy Adams
8 January 1900, Hannah, North Dakota, USA
Director:
George Stevens
Country:
United States
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