Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Stevens
Screenplay byMorrie Ryskind
Based onPenny Serenade
(1940 McCall's story)
by Martha Cheavens
Produced byGeorge Stevens
StarringIrene Dunne
Cary Grant
Beulah Bondi
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Edited byOtto Meyer
Music byW. Franke Harling
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 24, 1941 (1941-04-24) (USA)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$835,000[1]

Penny Serenade is a 1941 American melodrama film directed by George Stevens starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant as a loving couple who must overcome adversity to keep their marriage and raise a child. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

  1. ^ Dick, Bernard Dick (1993). The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, p. 160.