Pennies from Heaven (1936)
FUN...when Crosby croons himself out of jail and lands on a merry-go-round with the meanest of brats!
81 min
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises 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.
- Release date
- November 25, 1936
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Bing Crosby as Larry Poole
- Madge Evans as Susan Sprague
- Edith Fellows as Patsy Smith
- Louis Armstrong as Henry
- Donald Meek as Gramp Smith
- John Gallaudet as J. C. Hart
- William Stack as Clarence B. Carmichael
- Nana Bryant as Miss Howard
- Tom Dugan as Crowbar Miller
- Nydia Westman as Slavey - Hotel Maid
Crew
- Norman Z. McLeod · Director
- Katherine Leslie Moore · Writer
- William Rankin · Writer
- Jo Swerling · Writer
- Emanuel Cohen · Producer
- Robert Pittack · Cinematographer
- John Rawlins · Editor