The Five Pennies

1959
US
U

Directed by: Melville Shavelson
Written by: Robert Smith, Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
Cast: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Tuesday Weld

Kaye plays 'Red' Nichols, a cornet player who moves to New York during the roaring twenties to pursue his dream as cornet player in a band, only to have everything fall apart when his daughter develops polio.