There's a world on both sides of the rainbow where songs come true and every time it rains, it rains Pennies from Heaven.
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
- 6.0
- 1981
- Released
- 1h 48m
Steve Martin
Arthur
Bernadette Peters
Eileen
Jessica Harper
Joan
Vernel Bagneris
The Accordion Man
John McMartin
Mr. Warner
John Karlen
The Detective
Jay Garner
The Banker
Robert Fitch
Al
Tommy Rall
EdEliska Krupka
The Blind Girl
Christopher Walken
Tom
Francis X. McCarthy
The Bartender
Raleigh Bond
Mr. Barrett
Gloria LeRoy
A Prostitute
Nancy Parsons
The Old WhoreToni Kaye
TartShirley Kirkes
Tart
Jack Fletcher
Elevator OperatorHunter Watkins
BoyArell Blanton
Motorcycle Police
M.C. Gainey
Young PolicemanMark Campbell
NewsboyMark Martinez
SchoolboyDuke Stroud
Counterman
Joseph G. Medalis
CountermanRichard Blum
Pool Player
William Frankfather
Pool PlayerJim Boeke
HangmanRobert Lee Jarvis
PolicemanLuke Andreas
Customer
Will Hare
Father EversonJoshua Cadman
Jumbo
Paul Valentine
Bar PatronBill Richards
Bar PatronJohn Craig
Bar PatronAlton Ruff
Bar Patron / DancerKarla J. Franko
Bank SecretaryRobin Hoff
Bank Secretary
Linda Montana
Bank SecretaryBunney Brooke
Bank Secretary
Twink Caplan
Bank CustomerLillian D'Honau
Bank CustomerBarbara Nordella
Bank CustomerDean Taliaferro
Bank CustomerWayne Storm
Bank Guard
Gene Ross
Bank TellerEdward J. Heim
Bank Teller
Dave Adams
Bank Teller
Greg Finley
Bank TellerPaul Michael
Bank TellerJoe Ross
Bank Teller
Tammy O'Rourke
Dancer (uncredited)
Tanya Fenmore
Dancer / Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Released
en
$22,000,000.00
$9,171,289.00
- #chicago, illinois
- #marriage
- #musical
- #great depression
- #teacher
- #traveling salesman
- #1930s
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***Imagination helps endure the harsh realities of the Depression*** In the 1930s a struggling sheet music salesman (Steve Martin) tries to escape his dreary existence with his prudish wife (Jessica Harper) to pursue his dream and a cute schoolmarm (Bernadette Peters). The imaginations of the characters help them deal with the harsh realities of the Great Depression. Vernel Bagneris plays a hom