Movie Details
Theatrical Release:November 25th, 1936
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 28th, 2003
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Original Language:English
Production Companies:Columbia Pictures
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
"FUNwhen Crosby croons himself out of jail and lands on a merrygoround with the meanest of brats"Movie
Audience Score
DirectorNorman Z. McLeod
Plot
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 Patsys welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage
