Penny Serenade is sentimental and heartwrenching yet Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make it all seem real and director Stevens gives the film a romantic glow which makes this one of the most fondly remembered films of the 1940's. George Stevens framed this entire film using flashbacks an old phonograph playing the songs from various stages in the lives of two people who fall in love and are nearly torn apart by tragedy. The screenplay is sentimental and heartwrenching yet Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make it all seem real and director Stevens gives the film a romantic glow... which makes this one of the most fondly remembered films of the 1940's. The story opens as Julie (Dunne) is getting ready to leave Roger (Grant) because of the pain caused by a tragedy in their lives he cannot talk about so that they can begin to heal. She laments that they simply don't need each other anymore. When she finds an old stack of records she begins to trace the various stages of their love through the memories recalled by each song. Whether their love and marriage can be saved is only resolved in the last few moments of this beautiful film. [show more]
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