Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

7.2IMDb Score
Released:1936-11-25
Duration:81 min
Director:Norman Z. McLeod
Actors:Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek
Production:Columbia Pictures

Overview:

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.

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