What is THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO / PENNIES FROM HEAVEN about?

THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985, Park Circus/MGM, 84 min. Dir. Woody Allen. 1930s matinee idol Jeff Daniels walks down off the movie screen into sweet, adoring fan Mia Farrow’s life in this bittersweet comic fantasy. With Dianne Wiest, Danny Aiello, Van Johnson, Milo O’Shea, Edward Herrmann. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, 1981, Warner Bros., 108 min. Dir. Herbert Ross. Dennis Potter's beautifully melancholic musical pairs unhappily married Depression-era Arthur (Steve Martin) and sweet, footloose Eileen (Bernadette Peters), setting the stage for bittersweet romance punctuated with astounding Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. The last-ever MGM musical features eye-popping production design inspired by painter Edward Hopper, superb camerawork (Gordon Willis earned a National Society of Film Critics award for Best Cinematography) and Christopher Walken’s wonderful dance number, “Let's Misbehave.”

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What is THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO / PENNIES FROM HEAVEN about?: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985, Park Circus/MGM, 84 min. Dir. Woody Allen. 1930s matinee idol Jeff Daniels walks down off the movie screen into sweet, adoring fan Mia Farrow’s life in this bittersweet comic fantasy. With Dianne Wiest, Danny Aiello, Van Johnson, Milo O’Shea, Edward Herrmann. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, 1981, Warner Bros., 108 min. Dir. Herbert Ross. Dennis Potter's beautifully melancholic musical pairs unhappily married Depression-era Arthur (Steve Martin) and sweet, footloose Eileen (Bernadette Peters), setting the stage for bittersweet romance punctuated with astounding Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. The last-ever MGM musical features eye-popping production design inspired by painter Edward Hopper, superb camerawork (Gordon Willis earned a National Society of Film Critics award for Best Cinematography) and Christopher Walken’s wonderful dance number, “Let's Misbehave.”