Penny Serenade (1941)

The other night I got it in my head it was time to watch another old classic film. For some reason the title Penny Serenade kept ringing in my head, I would see it on occasion while scrolling through instant netflix. So I started it up expecting it to be a standard old school romantic comedy and was not expecting what I saw at all.

It's a story told through flash backs triggered by the female lead listening to her various records for one last time. The flashbacks get longer and longer until you forget that that's what they are at all. All the while you're following the lives of the two leads as they meet and fall in love and then later on their struggle to have a child and how it's affecting their relationship. Turned out to be a pretty good film that definitely knows how to tug at your heart strings.