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Penny Serenade was produced and directed by George Stevens for Columbia Pictures. This is a beautifully woven tapestry of nostalgia, where the tears are supplemented by joy and charm and beauty. I submit Penny Serenade as my choice for the “No, you’re crying!” blogathon hosted by Moon in Gemini for the tears, but I offer this post in honor of one of my all-time favorite movies for everything else I see in it. The reason for that being that Penny Serenade is seen as a weepie, as they used to refer to movies that make people cry, because it does make you cry. It’s been my experience that the mere mention of Penny Serenade causes people to shrink back in alarm, a severe avoidance reaction that few movies elicit. Serenade takes quite a leap from the broad comedy that rules the pair’s first two outings – Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937) and Garson Kanin’s My Favorite Wife (1940). In Penny Serenade we get a story about the trials and tribulations of a couple who struggle to stay together after the death of their child. This many years later my torch has not diminished for Penny Serenade, the third and last cinematic marriage between Dunne and Grant, the two actors I believe to make up the perfect film couple.

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I have a deep affection for George Stevens’ 1941 heartbreaking melodrama, a movie I watched many times throughout my childhood since I was about 6 years old. I must warn you that this may be one of those times when my emotions defeat any semblance of coherent writing I may possess. Before the fresh, bountiful ingredients rot away in a glamorous but empty kitchen the challenge for both John and Jack is to find a way to blend money, sex, love and family into one sumptuous recipe for life.Before I recognized His Magnificence, or as you may know him, Cary Grant – and before I knew Irene Dunne as one of Hollywood’s great talents, I was in love with Penny Serenade (1941). But a newer, penniless, more soulful man may soon prove too hard to kick to the curb. The spoilt promiscuous John was once easy for Jack to ignore. This revelation is secretly old news for everyone, no one had cared but yet Johns parents use the opportunity to push their aimless son to make something of his life by cutting him off financially. John tries to out Jack to save his sister from eventual heartache by outing himself to his family.

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As years of mounting tensions culminate into an over-heated argument in the kitchen, Jack throws an apple at Johns head - bruising his bosss ego and unfurling a series of ill-timed events that teach them both good reason to grow up.

He has quietly given up hope that John would ever fall for him and support his dreams of running a super restaurant together one day. Jack is a line cook at Johns flagship restaurant, ready to build a future and a family. But witnessing his sister Vivienne about to marry his childhood crush Jack a light bulb flicks on, passions ignite and the wedding must immediately be stopped! Twenty years later, they’ve grown apart and now barely recognize each other.Ī handsome gay man and heir to a restaurant empire, John lives with extravagance - champagne, fast cars and fast men - bedding nearly every hot guy in town. As kids, John and Jack were best friends.

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