The Five Pennies, 1959
The 1959 film The Five Pennies, co-produced by Paramount Pictures and Dena Productions, was a semibiographical movie about the jazz trumpet player Red Nichols. Danny Kaye starred as Nichols. As in many previous films for Kaye, Sylvia Fine wrote several musical numbers: “Follow the Leader,” “Goodnight Sleep Tight,” “Lullaby in Ragtime,” and “The Five Pennies.” The most famous number from the film was an adaptation Fine wrote of “When the Saints Go Marching In” that Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong performed.
The 1959 film <em>The Five Pennies</em>, co-produced by Paramount Pictures and Dena Productions, was a semibiographical movie about the jazz trumpet player Red Nichols. Danny Kaye starred as Nichols. As in many previous films for Kaye, Sylvia Fine wrote several musical numbers: “Follow the Leader,” “Goodnight Sleep Tight,” “Lullaby in Ragtime,” and “The Five Pennies.” The most famous number from the film was an adaptation Fine wrote of “When the Saints Go Marching In” that Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong performed.