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. Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Theatrical release poster
Grant and Dunne with Baby Biffle in a scene from the film
Grant and Dunne in Penny Serenade
George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
Stevens with his Oscar for directing Giant, 1957
Stevens with Barbara Bel Geddes on set of I Remember Mama (1948)
Left to right: George Stevens Jr., his father, George Stevens, and composer Dimitri Tiomkin at premiere of Giant, October 11, 1956