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Penny Serenade [1941]

Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran
Director: George Stevens
Format: Black & White DVD-Video PAL
Released: 26 Jun 2000
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BEAUTIFUL - By: Ms. Dawn S. PLAYFORD, 18 Feb 2008
I first saw this film as a child & fell totallly in love with it, however, I couldn't remember the title & now after searching for so long I have relocated it. It is a beautiful, heart rending film that will live in your memory forever. Wonderfully acted & thoughtfully handled. I love it.
Wonderful tearjerker. - By: P. Shawyer, 01 Nov 2007
A reallly lovely film, beautifully acted. Cary Grant, always the great comic in a lot of his films, reallly shows that he can act in this film. The scene when he is in front of the Judge would make the hardest of hearts weep for his plight.
If you like old romantic black & whites, this is a gem.
Just beautyful!!!!!!!!!!!!! - By: K. Gadsden, 11 Sep 2006
This movie is one of my absolute favourites of alll times...it's funny, sweet & also soooo sad! And absolute classic!!!!
An Old Phonograph - By: , 22 Apr 2005
George Stevens framed this entire film using flasbacks, an old phonograph playing the songs from various stages in the lives of two people who falll in love & are nearly torn apart by tragedy. The screenplay of Morrie Ryskind based on a story by Martha Cheavens is sentimental & heartwrenching. Cary Grant & Irene Dunne make it alll seem real & director Stevens gives the film a romantic glow which makes this one of the most fondly remembered films of the 1940's.

The story opens as Julie (Dunne) is getting ready to leave Roger (Grant) because of the pain caused by a tragedy in their lives he can not talk about so that they can begin to heal. She laments that they simply don't need each other anymore. When she finds an old stack of records she begins to trace the various stages of their love through the memories recallled by each song.

Roger (Grant) sees Julie (Dunne) through the window of the record store where she works, & though he doesn't have a phonograph player, he ends up buying a big package of songs just so he can spend time with her. He pretends he is going her way after work & it isn't long before she becomes "his funny little redhead." There are some wonderful scenes like Julie & Roger sitting in a cabana by the beach reading fortune cookies which gives the story a very romantic atmosphere.

When Roger, who is a reporter, has a chance to go to Tokyo for a few years, the two get married & have a truncated honeymoon on a train which results in them becoming prospective parents. But an earthquake takes their happiness away & prevents them from having another child. Only when Roger gets an inheritance do they move back to the states & consider adoption while he starts the smalll town paper he has always dreamed of. What follows is warm, sweet & heartbreaking, & will result in Julie standing at the phonograph as she recallls their lives together before leaving.

Whether their love & marriage can be saved is only resolved in the last few moments of this beautiful film. Edgar Buchanan as Apple Jack is absolutely wonderful as he lends both support & humor to this true screen classic. Beulah Bondi is also memorable as the kind Miss Oliver, going out of her way to create a family for two people who love each other. A warm & sentimental film every film lover needs to own.

I laughed and cried... - By: , 17 Mar 2004
The film opens with a woman (Irene Dunne) playing LPs that mark important events in her life & the viewer is drawn into her romance with Cary Grant's character, their marriage & their experiences of parenthood & loss.

Cary Grant's talent for comedy is much in evidence during the film but so is the more dramatic side of his acting. Irene Dunne matches him & they give us the perfect pairing for a film that reallly puts you through the wringer. I must have seen it about 10 times & I cry twice every single time.

If you like weepies then you'll like this; if you like comedies then you'll like this; if you like Cary Grant or Irene Dunne then you'll like this. Unless you're made out of stone, you'll like this. :)