Penny Serenade

"Remember the tune they were singing the night we fell in love?..."
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DVD Details

  • (16 x 9) 1.37:1 ASPECT RATIO
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 27, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1941
  • Label: Olive

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,207
Rating: 5/5 -- Lesser seen Cary Grant, but very compelling.
Kansas City Kansan
Oct 16, 2004
Rating: B+ -- George Stevens' sentimental melodrama is extremely well acted by Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, who received for his part of a depressed father the first of his two Oscar nominations. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 29, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Brilliantly made soaper with superb cast.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Dec 1, 2002
If you have any tolerance for soap opera, this is one of the classics. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
The film has in its plot a note of originality and touches the of paternal feeling with delicacy. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
Cine-Mundial
Sep 17, 2019
Rating: 3.5/5 -- If you are prone to easy weeping, you might even take along a washtub. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006
This is a classic 'women's picture' in every sense. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006

Product Description:

In one of his rare departures from the realm of comedy, Cary Grant stars along with Irene Dunne in this sentimental tale about the marriage of Roger and Julie Adams.Told in flashbacks by Julie as she considers divorce, the film limns the couple's earlier years, when her reluctant journalist boyfriend finally proposes after being posted in Japan by the newspaper where he works. When Julie joins him after a three-month delay, she announces that she's pregnant, and is greatly concerned by Roger's rash spending habits. Shortly thereafter, their house is destroyed by an earthquake, which also ends Julie's pregancy. The couple returns to San Francisco only to find that Julie will no longer be able to bear children. Hoping to cheer his wife, Roger floats the idea of buying a small-town newspaper, but she remains inconsolable. He goes ahead with his plan to buy the paper, and the twosome rent an apartment above its offices. Meanwhile, their friend Applejack (Edgar Buchanan) begins gently coaxing the couple to adopt a child. Although the film is awash in sentimentality, it remains curiously compelling, which can be attributed to Stevens restrained direction, the skillful interweaving of comic material, and excellent work by the two leads.

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  • Sales Rank: 13,426
  • UPC: 887090070102
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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