Pennies from Heaven
FUN...when Crosby croons himself out of jail and lands on a merry-go-round with the meanest of brats!
81 mins
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.
William Rankin
Story
Emanuel Cohen
Producer
William Grant Still
Original Music Composer
Robert Pittack
Director of Photography
John Rawlins
Editor
Stephen Goosson
Art Direction
Sam Nelson
Assistant Director
Earl Rettig
Unit Manager
Robert J. Schiffer
Makeup Artist
Glenn Rominger
Sound