The Five Pennies

The Five Pennies is a 1959 film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Danny Kaye and Barbara Bel Geddes.

The Five Pennies is a fictionalized biography of jazz musician Red Nicols. The film was a success in the cinemas in the USA and got four Oscar nominations for best music, best original song, best cinematography and Best costumes.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Ernest Nichols, nicknamed ' Red ' because of his red hair, plays Cornet. He lives in a small town where he barely can earn a living with his game. The big money is in New York and Nichols moves to the big city. There he is best heard on the radio where he has to do all kinds of musical chores that are not hearts. His true passion is jazz music. The are the 1920s jazz orchestras and shooting out of the soil. Nichols joins the band of Want Paradise. During the performances, he meets the singer Bobbie Meredith and gets a relationship with her. They get married and start a Dixieland band together under the name The Five Pennies. The band is a success and there are extensive tours. As his daughter Dorothy was born fears Red that he return to his boring radio job, but his wife persuades him to to continue with the band. But fate strikes as Dorothy in the hospital is being recorded. The doctors see polio and recommend a warm climate for the girl. Nichols stops the music and moves with his family to Los Angeles. Hear the music world for years nothing more of Red Nichols. As Dorothy now a teenager is, hear them for the first time the music of The Five Pennies and her father's musical career. The girl wants to return his music and now her father she knows again to persuade him to go on tour and make a comeback. Red and his Five Pennies go on tour but the return is not easy. The tour is in danger of becoming a fiasco until a large number of great jazz artists from Nichols ' past popping up and Red from the fire help. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Between myth and fact: the movie and Red Nichols[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is loosely based on the life story of Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (1905-1965). Nichols was a phenomenon on the Cornet and in the 1920s he made name as a jazz musician and composer. Nichols was one of the greats in the Dixieland music and made various recordings between 1926-1932 for the Brunswick label. The screenwriters have taken the life of Nichols as a starting point, but main freedoms allowed to bring in the necessary drama. Unlike in the film did not have to labor for Nichols at the radio. He soon joined on with a Dixieland Orchestra: The Syncopating Seven, and later with Johnny Carson Orchestra. In 1926 he founded ' Red Nichols and His Five Pennies ' on. not, as in the film is suggested, with his wife, but with Miff Mole. In The Five Pennies, he worked with Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller , Benny Goodmanand Gene Krupa.They had a hit with their version of Ida. The film does it occur as if the career of Nichols came to a halt after his daughter Dorothy suffered polio . But in reality came to a halt when the career of Nichols Dixieland around 1932 was ousted by the Swing. Nichols did not like this style and got more and more criticism of his game, which was regarded as ' academic '. Nichols disappeared into the background and played in show bands and theatre orchestras and was the conductor of the Orchestra of Bob Hope. Actually the one to see what is in the beginning of the film. It was also not true that Nichols moved from New York to Los Angeles because of his daughters polio. The reason was that he found more work in the entertainment industry. Only when, mid thirties, he married dancer Willa Stutsman, with whom he had a daughter. He married so not with a singer and did not work together with his wife in an orchestra. Though his daughter in 1942 got polio. Just like in the movie left Nichols the music to work in a shipyard. But it was not his daughter who took him from oblivion. After the war, Nichols himself The Five Pennies back on and went on to play in all kinds of small jazz clubs. Soon it was Nichols popular again and made tours in the US and Europe. He died of a heart attack In 1965. ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although Danny Kaye months long practiced to play the cornet he is convincing in the film not to hear. The real Red Nichols played all parties. His Five Pennies, however, are not told, the music comes from session musicians. Kaye loved to improvise and certainly during rehearsals he often could not contain. During the rehearsals of a dance scene danced Kaye a very exaggerated tango with Lizanne Truexdancer. The Director was very pleased with this improvisation and added the right to the movie. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="45" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To hear the following songs In the film are:
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 between myth and fact: the movie and Red Nichols
 * 3.2 Production
 * 3.3 Music
 * 3.4 Title
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external link
 * Danny Kaye -Red Nichols
 * Barbara Bel Geddes – Bobbie Meredith
 * Tuesday Weld – Dorothy Nichols
 * Louis Armstrong -Louis Armstrong
 * Bob Crosby -Will Paradise

===Title<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Five Pennies was the name of the band of Red Nichols. Five Pennies is a reference to the surname of Nichols. In the US is a ' nickel ' five cents worth. In a ' nickel ' five go ' pennies ' (cents). ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="267" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1959 The Five Pennies was nominated for a Grammy Award for best Soundtrack Album.
 * "Five Pennies" (Danny Kaye)
 * "After you've gone" (Louis Armstrong)
 * "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Hone (Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye)
 * "Good Night-Sleep Tight" (Barbara Bell Geddes)
 * "Lullaby in Ragtime" (Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong)
 * "Five Pennies Saints"(Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong)
 * "Just the Blues" (Louis Armstrong)
 * "Carnival of Venice" (Danny Kaye)
 * "The Music goes round and around" (Danny Kaye/Susan Gordon)
 * "Jingle Bells" (Danny Kaye)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1960 The Five Pennies was nominated for four Academy Awards:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">That same year the film won a WGA Award for "best written American musical". The film also won two Golden Laurel and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
 * Best cinematography
 * Best costume design
 * Best original song
 * Best music