The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1959
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 7.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Henry Levin
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

He Had Two Wives And Led Two Lives... Hes The Best Dad Two Families Ever Had - At The Same Time!

Writing by: Liam OBrien - play
Walter Reisch - writer

Produced by: Charles Brackett - producer

Cast: Clifton Webb - Mr. Horace Pennypacker
Dorothy McGuire - Mrs. Emily Ma Pennypacker
Charles Coburn - Grampa Pennypacker
Jill St. John - Kate Pennypacker
Ron Ely - Wilbur Fielding
Ray Stricklyn - Horace Pennypacker III
David Nelson - Henry Pennypacker
Dorothy Stickney - Aunt Jane Pennypacker
Larry Gates - Rev. Dr. Fielding
Richard Deacon - Sheriff
Pamela Baird - Nancy Pennypacker (uncredited)

Music: Leigh Harline
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Plot Outline: In early 1900s Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children...
Plot: In early 1900s Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypackers dual life is revealed.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the end credits, Valerie Hobson, who played Estella as an adult in David Leans 1946 version of "Great Expectations", is credited as having played Biddy, a rather prominent character, in this 1934 version, but Biddy never appears at all.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Ching-Ching meets Tommy Randall in the shop where hes trying to buy a dragons head, the shop owner holds up the dragon head to let Tommy Randall see it. In the next shot, the dragons head is sitting on the counter.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
New York dateline, November 17, 1938: Composers Galore Say Tune in "Stowaway" was Pirated [Headline]. Plagiarism suits and claims plagued 20th Century-Fox this week, with all parts of the world represented, apparently, in the allegations that the Mack Gordon-Harry Revel tune "Good Night, My Love," which was used in the 1936 Shirley Temple picture "Stowaway" had been pirated wholly or in part. In Argentina, a musical trial was held in a Buenos Aires theater with the audience, admitted on free passes, acting as a jury. Two reels of the picture were exhibited and the song of the claimant, Juan Calabria, and the Gordon-Revel piece were played. The audience found for the plaintiff. Twentieth Century-Foxs legal department, taking the position that the audience-jury was "packed," is moving for a dismissal. Charles McCord, a New York tune smith, is suing for $60,000 damages from 20th Century-Fox, alleging that Gordon and Revel lifted music from a song he wrote as the basis for "Good Night, My Love." Claims have also been received from Europe also. So maybe it isnt surprising that Edwin P. Kilroe, copyright expert of the companys legal staff, said yesterday that he was waiting to hear from the heirs of Verdi and Brahams. Gordon and Revel were to arrive in New York this week from the coast.
After filming of this movie was completed, Shirley Temple was given the Pekingese dog that had played her characters pet dog, "Mr. Woo." Temple renamed the dog "Ching-Ching," after her character in the movie.