pennies from heaven dancing kids

[OrphanAnnieTrNb90]

This is a wonderfully entertaining video; loved the movie with one of my all-time favorite funny guys, who recently has been wowing-the-world with his Bluegrass music banjo artistry, both Traditional with the legendary Earl Scruggs, and now with his own band, Steve Martin & Steep Canyon.

[threemississippi]

Bernadette Peters is extraordinary!

[goinxnginx]

This is one of the most brilliant sequences ever filmed. Genius.

[ferdinandverberne]

agnes lems YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEHHHHH ALL OF IT

[iCaNdYccd0jac]

jiggle jiggle jiggle jiggle... TITTEHHSS 

[delchic1]

I'm the girl in the white dress, tapping and dancing,,,,,,,,,,,,,hahahhahah­hah



[DonTheVoice]

I've made my decision. In my next life, I wanna be a Rockette...

[icebfly]

A little too revealing for youngsters to be beholding. I don't think the lady should have that much showing in the presence of such young eyes and hearts. Just my opinion. Otherwise, the choreography is fun.

[LanceRock]

@icebfly At least she wasn't playing cards!

[drizzy009]

I wonder how many of them fell off those tiny pianos?

[yikes10036]

I wish this sequence was done in black and white.

[HelenaKoonings]

@fran9860 Furthermore, I think it is you that have made a fool out of yourself by overreacting.

[767373jae]

Search "Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You - Pennies From Heaven Soundtrack 1981" for good volume. 

[Bluekke1]

Very very lovely this video.....thanks Paul for sharing this wowww ***** Hugsss Blue

[fleetfoot27]

The Little girl at 1:00 is the late Heather O'rourke From poltergeist real life older sister.

[doggielapp]

@fleetfoot27 She's also a featured dancer in the 80's version of Annie. You can see a lot of her in Hard Knocks Life.

[fleetfoot27]

@doggielapp Thank you very much for the info I will check that it out.

[DREPCONY]

Excellent! Choreographer Danny Daniels is brilliant!

[DREPCONY]

Excellent!

[blueglitterfish]

At 1 minute 38 seconds I am in the second row, second from the right side of the screen in. At 2 minutes 4 seconds I am the third child they pass as the camera moves across the row. We all learned the dance. Rehearsed for 3 weeks with Danny Daniels. In the "reality" scene at the end, I am in the row on the far right, second row back, wearing glasses.

Cady MCClain

[vertblip]

@blueglitterfish Thanks so much Cady for answering my question about "Pennies from Heaven"!

[SeanParkerRuggier]

that doesn't sound like bernadette's singing voice at all. why would they have someone else do it?

[elvenlove]

@SeanParkerRuggier  It's mimicing the original TV show from the BBC, where the characters would break into lipsynced old 30's songs. Same with the Christopher Walken song thats on Youtube from this movie.

[HelenaKoonings]

@SeanParkerRuggier No one in this movie sings, it's all original songs that they lip-sunc to. I think it's because they're escaping through the music, and this way it's even farther from their own life because it's not even them singing. I have uploaded the whole movie on my channel.

[fran9860]

@HelenaKoonings As a film historian, I wish to inform you that this movie was about the great depression of 1929. These actors did not escape through the music. Did Jessica Lange escape when she starred in Sweet Dreams or Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter? A wise man once said; it's better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt!

[HelenaKoonings]

@fran9860 It is all very well to be selfproclaimed and righteous, yet it does not give you the right to adress anyone in this manner. I know the movie is about the great depression, but this is how I interpret the movie and these scenes. Is it not true that the musical scenes portray the lightness that the characters themselves do not experience? Therefore, I think it is safe to say that these same scenes are a refuge to them.

[mylovesofmylife]

Tammy O Rourke is so very cute and talented.

But Heather was someone special a true look of an angel and is very missed

[LovelyJudithBarsi]

Aw, I love Tammy O'Rourke ! Thank you for sharing this video =)

[tenilove24]

if i'm not mistaken, 2 time Daytime Emmy winning actress...Cady MCClain [though if so...would most likely be creditted as Katie Jo McClain], known for her role as Dixie Cooney Martin on All My Children and Rosanna Cabot on As The World Turns...was one of those kids. though can't pick her out, but that's what i read in her bio.

[tenilove24]

BTW, she also played Peter O'Toole's daughter, Tess, in My Favorite Year...both at the age of 12.

[jdollinter]

The DVD has the original version of this song in the closing credits.

[voikunsh]

When I pay to see a movie I don't want to see gratuitious violence, boredom or comedies which don't make me laugh. I like to see scenes like this - full of life, music and dance. Interesting to see the principal interrupting the fun and frowning upon the happy kids and teacher celebration of fun. In real life there are people like the principal. You have 2 options - stay away from them or put them on a piano to face the music!.

[mgtn69376]

46 now, makes me happier than 12

[mgtn69376]

This is the best movie~ Makes me glad I was just a kid, fuck,....... I love this movie~

[KiCreativeStudios]

@JoshFF745 I was going to vote you down....until I saw them myself.

[JoshFF745]

@KiCreativeStudios hahaha

[strbt]

white kid music class

[GHOSTrsf12]

MY MOM WAS IN THIS MOVIE she was one of the dancers!!!

[cheesenedd]

really? Where?

[doggielapp]

@GHOSTrsf12 Wow! Can you tell which one she is?

[mroziuklukas11]

@GHOSTrsf12 what is the name of this movie..?? I want to find it... Love musicals...

[tenilove24]

@mroziuklukas11 you didn't ask me, but it's called..."Pennies From Heaven". though there are two movie versions...this one was made in the early 80s and it stars Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, and Christopher Walkin.

[mroziuklukas11]

@tenilove24 Hey... Thank You...  :o)

[tenilove24]

@mroziuklukas11 no prob...happy to help. ;-)

[xocaitlin88ox]

@GHOSTrsf12 that is awesome!

how did she get picked to be in it?

[EmoDeathStar121]

@GHOSTrsf12 how old is she now id say 40 at the most

[hisluckienstar614]

@GHOSTrsf12 -- that's cool! i love it.

[TylahMuller]

@GHOSTrsf12

which one ?

[SuperGirls144]

@GHOSTrsf12 what instrument was she playing

[iLauras]

@GHOSTrsf12 Which one? :o

[vt600cd]

Interesting - another guy posted the version from the soundtrack lp of this movie, which doesn't seem to be this version of the song - so I also tend to think this one was indeed recorded in 1981. Some of the orchestration does give it away. Still, with the dancing and the synchopated sound of the tapdancing, it's so fabulous! As others have noted, I also find this scene the best part of a very good but painfully depressing movie.

[tubefilmvideo]

Benadette should have sang the song -

but hey Louis B. Mayer would be very happy with the work !

[892lgy7382]

heather orourke's sister tammy is here

[Fireheart228]

Kid-sized instruments! Ha ha ha, too cool. :)

[wtcgnub]

cute

[enigma800]

Let me spell that right!  It's O'Rourke. Damn Microsoft Word. Tammy you know I luv ya, you big sweetheart, you!

[Plasvi]

is bernadette singing here?

[brautigan1]

Are you ok in your brain?

[Lynn827]

it's amazing =D

[tawnteens]

why didn't Bernadette sing it?

[Footballlegend18]

2 of my daughters did this exact performance in a recital yesterday!!!! It was so cute, but curling their hair was a nightmare.

[biacheles]

Maravilhoso!!!

[touchcowpoo]

i like there dressees

[bearcub410]

one of the most under rated films of all time . i loved it the min i first saw it . the best

[flugelmaniac]

great video but sound level quite low

[goback3spaces]

This whole movie is a one-trick pony. It start out stunning, then you get the basic gimmick, and you just wait for it to be over. What's a bit depressing is the huge production values, lots of money spent in pursuit of a small idea.

[64102256]

Now I see this version of Steve Martin is like the oe with Bob Hoskin, The story and plot have nothing to do with the 1930 Bing Crosby Movie. The song Pennies from Heaven is the only thing that is in the three.

[hebneh]

I always thought this was a masterful reinterpretation of a 1930s movie musical number. If it was in black and white, it almost could pass for the real thing.

This version of the song was done just for this 1981 movie, but in the final credits an authentic '30s version is heard. Most, if not all, of the other songs that people lip-synched here were original ones.

Right after this clip ends, the principal whacks a little boy on the hand with a ruler and makes him cry, in a cruel contrast.

[negronarutosis]

what is with my voyce. why is it so boring! i cant pronounce anything right. i need help. i also have a lisp. i say sp

[buddy69r]

An underated gem...I always loved both the British version and Steve Martin's take on it. An astounding film that a lot of folks didn't get.

[DreameverCompany]

8O i came ¬.¬

[mackeymkay]

This scene and Chris Walken's dance number make this movie a real gem.

[chernik70s]

I LOVE little actress Tanya Fenmore's expressions @ 2:10-2:13! *LOL*

Tres Cute! (:

Not many kids get to show off their talent like this in movies these days,BTW. *sigh*

[BernardProfitendieu]

can you imagine all the pushy stage parents on set when the filmed this? it must've been a toxic environment!!!

[wasserdagger]

I really loved this song 'n dance segment in the movie "Pennies From Heaven," (1981) - it was probably the most upbeat part of an otherwise rather depressing movie. Of course, the movie WAS about the Depression times, so, naturally, it couldn't all be fun and games. But I will always love this part of the movie, it was so positive and vibrant. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, I recommend you find a copy and watch it.

[TheMemoryAngel]

at 1:01 tammy o'rourke is on the trampit at the frout! She Heather O'rourke big sis!

[bURRkEEF]

This song is the reason I had to have the soundtrack after seeing it on TCM in the wee hours of the morning. Was it ever released on 78 rpm? The vocals are by Ida Sue McCune and through all of my research, the most info I could find on her was a few bit parts in movies such as an animated Casper movie. With a soundtrack so awesome it seems that it would be more readily available, but alas, it is out of print. Luckily, I found a sealed copy of the 2-LP set. $1.25!

[ladyknine]

Hi can you tell me the name of themovie,and can you get it on DVD,i also have this song on the sound track of the old television programm"Pennies From Heaven" with Bob Hoskins and Gemma Craven,,but i do not know this movie,can you give me some info please,thanks,

[bURRkEEF]

The DVD available on Amazon and I'm sure eBay, too. This is the American version of the British TV series.And it would be well worth purchasing. It rarely comes on television here anymore.

[ladyknine]

Hey burrkeef,thanks for that,have all the british version of the music,but i know one of my brothers and my sister would go crazy for this movie,they maybe know it already,i will get it asap,love it thank toy so much for that,,,sigh,,,dont you just love you tube for the likes of this,

[HelenaKoonings]

@ladyknine Th movie is "Pennies From Heaven", shot in 1981. It's available on amazon, but if you want to check it out on YouTube, I just uploaded it to my channel. :)

[IDLERACER]

This film came out in 1981, which means that these kids are now all in their late 30s. I wonder if any of them went on to any kind of fame and fortune.

[enigma800]

Hi IDLERACER, to answer your question if any of these kids went on to fame. Tammy ORourke, the older sister of the late Heather ORourke is in this film. You can see Tammy at 1:01 shes playing the trombone (shes the first girl in front), and dancing in front again at 1:55, and then gives us a big smile on the right front at 2:14 Her sister, Heather was visiting on the set, and was discovered by Steven Speilberg in the commissary and went on to play Carol Anne in all 3 Poltergeist films.

[doubleAKCunit]

heather o'rouke was discovered in a movie theatre or at least that is what i heard

ps. i am not the one who gave you that thumbs down

[enigma800]

Hi doubleAKCunit. Thumbs down doesn't bother me :) Look up Heather's biography and it will confirm what I said here.

[blackgrandprixgtx]

wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy under rated. a phenom

[FG94]

what movie is this?

[Mcdog3Doc]

I love the dancing kids. Especially when they clap and scream YEAH. They never fail to make me smile.

[cynthiacher]

Very underrated movie. People just didn't "get" it. It was supposed to be humorously, darkly ironic; a story of a miserable time (the Depression) punctuated with the elaborate song and dance routines normally found in escapist films of the 30s. The songs were lip-synched and sometimes a character would be singing in the voice of the opposite sex. People thought this was a bad straight out comedy, mostly because it starred Steve Martin. It wasn't!

[mimoo612]

their tap dance is much better than me

[slobomotion]

One of the most bizarre movies ever made. This scene strikes me as almost perverse. Saw it when it came out, and it depressed me and my date so much, we split up. Bad recession then. I taught for awhile, and kept thinking about this scene when I couldn't control my pupils.

[LEELEEA]

The whole movies is perverse... that's what makes it brilliant! ;-)

[ratsbigguns134]

Great movie, thanks for the vid1

[dancingmachine2003]

Este numero es realmente Genial. Gracias por ponerlo. La parte de claque es increíble. Enhorabuena al coreógrafo (Danny Daniels).

[artistbloke]

The best bit of a very good movie.

[bearcub410]

this i think is one of the most underated films ever . it really is a masterpiece , thanks

[mrcan70]

This is my favorite part of the movie

[sweetaliena]

I want to see this movie!!!

[tunab13]

I love this movie, thanks for posting. could you post the full movie please?