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Pennies from Heaven
The film follows Arthur Parker, a Depression-era sheet-music salesman with big dreams who seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
28 March 1934, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 February 1942, USA
August 20, 1913 in San Antonio, Texas, USA
17 January 1942, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
13 October 1969, Burbank, California, USA
28 May 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 April 1969
May 24, 2003
Potter adapted his immensely successful British TV series into a Hollywood script that maintained most of its intelligence as well as the musical numbers.
January 01, 2000
he point is made endlessly, though it's in the film's favor that it's made with seriousness, consideration, and a certain amount of imagination.
October 23, 2004
Pennies from Heaven is dazzling and disappointing in equal measure.
March 26, 2004
Dark as night but perfectly lit, a little sad but with a song in its heart.
March 08, 2008
Underrated, fascinating musical starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters.
May 20, 2008
Not for everyone, but those who respond to it will find it unforgettable.
May 20, 2008
Almost as if he were directing Pinter, Herbert Ross has actors speak a line, then wait two beats before delivering the next phrase. Technique smothers such ordinarily lively performers as Martin, Peters and Harper.
July 08, 2007
O ótimo conceito deste musical torna-se ainda mais fascinante graças às belas coreografias, aos ricos figurinos, à impecável direção de arte e, é claro, à magnífica fotografia de Gordon Willis.
June 24, 2006
Let's face the music and dance, indeed.
August 30, 2004
The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way.
February 02, 2009
Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel.
December 05, 2011
A bit of filmmaking as film criticism to be respected and admired above and beyond its relationship to the legendary miniseries that it pushed out of print for more than 20 years.