The Five Pennies

1959
Approved
1h 57m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

2,2 k

MA NOTE

Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.

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Danny Kaye se déchaîne avec sa marque de clowns musicaux. Louis Armstrong joue du cor et des chants de cette célèbre voix de granit à gargarisme. Les icônes du Big Band Bob Crosby, Ray Antho... Tout lireDanny Kaye se déchaîne avec sa marque de clowns musicaux. Louis Armstrong joue du cor et des chants de cette célèbre voix de granit à gargarisme. Les icônes du Big Band Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony et Shelly Manne se joignent à la fête.Danny Kaye se déchaîne avec sa marque de clowns musicaux. Louis Armstrong joue du cor et des chants de cette célèbre voix de granit à gargarisme. Les icônes du Big Band Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony et Shelly Manne se joignent à la fête.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

2,2 k

MA NOTE

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Nommé pour 4 oscars
- 2 victoires et 8 nominations au total

Anecdotes
While Danny Kaye worked hard to be able to accurately fake playing cornet (he practiced for months learning the fingering of the instrument), it was the real Red Nichols who provided all of the cornet playing for Kaye in this movie.

Gaffes
After Red and Willa have left the club and are traveling home, the cars seen through the rear window of the taxicab are distinctly 1940's to 1950's vehicles which were nonexistent in 1924.

Citations
Louis Armstrong: Excuse it, folks. Somebody must have put alcohol in our liquor.

Connexions
Featured in American Masters: Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter (1996)

Bandes originales
The Five Pennies
(1959)
Words and Music by Sylvia Fine
Sung by Danny Kaye (uncredited) to Dorothy
Performed by Eileen Wilson (uncredited) at the comeback show

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8/10

Danny Kaye - neglected superstar needs re-discovering.

When I was growing up Danny Kaye was a huge figure.All over the radio,on records TV and the movies,you couldn't escape from his face or voice. He made successful tours of top rate theatrical venues in the uk,he could sing,dance,act,write comedy routines and song lyrics.His stage act was an explosion of energy and sheer talent.He was-in the ludicrously overused sense of the term-a superstar. In "The Five Pennies" we catch him at the height of his powers as an actor,singer and lyricist(to his wife Sylvia Fine's enchanting tunes) With a strong guest appearance by arguably the finest jazz musician who ever lived and some really clever songs(The Five Pennies,Lullaby in Ragtime and Goodnight all use the same chord sequence). It was a success de cash rather than a success d'estime like most of Kaye's movies,and perhaps that's why his work is largely neglected in critical circles today. As Gloria Swanson said in "Sunset Boulevard,"I'm still big,the movies got smaller"