Pennies from Heaven

December. 11,1981      R
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Steve Martin as  Arthur
Bernadette Peters as  Eileen
Jessica Harper as  Joan
Vernel Bagneris as  The Accordion Man
John McMartin as  Mr. Warner
John Karlen as  The Detective
Jay Garner as  The Banker
Tommy Rall as  Ed
Christopher Walken as  Tom
Francis X. McCarthy as  The Bartender

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