Review of Penny Serenade (1941) by Abigail D — 23 Sep 2008

Fairly decent, sentimental with heavy foreshadowing--overshadowing, even--of impending tragedy, even over the parts of the movie that are happy. The narrative/framing device makes it feel like not much actually happens when it finally gets to the end, too.

I think it would have been better if it told the story from beginning to end without the framing device--that way the happy parts would have been unadulteratedly happy (without affecting the sadness of the sad parts).

Oh well. It's not like that can be changed now. Anyway, still pretty good overall, and some good acting by Cary Grant.