Penny Serenade


Penny Serenade is a 1941 film melodrama starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan. The picture was directed by George Stevens, written by Martha Cheavens and Morrie Ryskind, and depicts the story of a loving couple who must overcome adversity to keep their marriage and raise a child. Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

After glancing at the nursery, Julie restarts the song and remembers meeting Roger years earlier The same ballad is playing over the loudspeakers at the San Francisco music store where Julie works. When the record begins to skip, passerby Roger Adams enters the store and meets Julie. The two begin to date, and while at the beach one day, Julie breaks open a fortune cookie, which reads you will get your wish a baby. Roger, a confirmed bachelor who has no patience with children, hides his fortune, which predicts a wedding soon, and replaces it with you will always be a bachelor.Roger, a reporter, changes his mind, however, when he bursts into a New Years Eve party with the news that his paper is assigning him to a post in Japan and asks Julie to marry him that evening. Knowing that they will not see each other for three months until Roger can earn enough money for Julies passage to Japan, the newlyweds kiss goodbye in Rogers train compartment. As they embrace, the train pulls out, and as a result, Julie stays in Rogers compartment until the train stops the next morning. ........

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