Penny Serenade (1941) on Netflix
Julie Gardiner and Roger Adams marry on a spur-of-the-moment New Year's Eve, their years together marked by the popular songs of the day. They long for a child.
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Plot summary
Julie Gardiner and Roger Adams meet, court and marry, their years together marked by the popular songs of each period. They wed on a spur-of-the-moment New Year's Eve and share Roger's train compartment on the way to San Francisco. Julie, expecting a child, joins Roger in Tokyo, where he works as a reporter; the 1923 earthquake there costs them the baby. The couple return to California, and their friend Applejack Carney urges them to adopt. Roger is trying to keep a newspaper alive in Rosalia while Julie fits out a nursery.
Cast
- Jane Biffleas One-Year-Old Trina
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Penny Serenade (1941)
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- California law then allowed an infant at a film studio only two hours a day and twenty minutes at a time under the lights, so George Stevens hired identical twins to play Trina at each age: Judith and Dianna Fleetwood as the baby and Joan and Jane Biffle as the one-year-old.
