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TITLE Five Pennies, The (1959)

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DISABILITY Polio

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 117

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Melville Shavelson

CAST Valerie Allen

Jimmy Dorsey

Louis Armstrong

Barbara Bel Geddes

NOTES The daughter of the leader of a Dixieland jazz band has polio. He gives up his fame and success to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for her.

When the daughter is older she learns of her father's and

mother's past and persuades them to start up another band.

 


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