What kind of movie is Pennies From Heaven and what novel is it based on?”
Pennies from Heaven is a 1936 musical comedy film released in 1936, based on the novel The Peacock Feather by Katherine Leslie Moore. Plot: In prison, Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), a self-described troubadour, is approached by an inmate named Hart (John Gallaudet} who is on his way to the electric chair. Hart asks Larry to deliver a letter to a family called Smith near Middletown, New Jersey. After finding the family, which consists of a grandfather (Donald Meek) and a young girl named Patsy (Edith Fellows), Poole tells them that the letter holds a key, reveals that the condemned man had unintentionally killed Patsy’s father and that he is giving the Smith family his old house and former hideout, the only thing he has to give as atonement. Susan Sprague (Madge Evans) represents the county welfare department and it is her job to see that Patsy is raised “properly”, or the girl will go to an orphanage. A variety of misadventures befall Larry as he tries to help “Gramps” out with Patsy to sa
Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 film. The movie was based on a 1978 BBC television drama. In 1981 Dennis Potter adapted his own screenplay for a film of the same name for American audiences, with its setting changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. The film starred Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken. The director was Herbert Ross and the choreographer was Danny Daniels. Plot summary In 1930s Depression America, Arthur Parker, a sheet-music salesman, is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business is failing and Joan is not amorous enough for Arthur and refuses to give him money to start his own business. His dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. In his travels, Arthur meets a shy, beautiful but plain school teacher, Eileen. Arthur expresses his instant attraction by lip-synching to the song “Did You Ever See A Dream Walking
Pennies from Heaven is a 1936 musical comedy film released in 1936, based on the novel The Peacock Feather by Katherine Leslie Moore. In prison, Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), a self-described troubadour, is approached by an inmate named Hart (John Gallaudet} who is on his way to the electric chair. Hart asks Larry to deliver a letter to a family called Smith near Middletown, New Jersey. After finding the family, which consists of a grandfather (Donald Meek) and a young girl named Patsy (Edith Fellows), Poole tells them that the letter holds a key, reveals that the condemned man had unintentionally killed Patsy’s father and that he is giving the Smith family his old house and former hideout, the only thing he has to give as atonement.
