Danny Kaye

Semi-biographical story of jazz coronet player Loring "Red" Nichols and his band, The five pennies.

Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered magazine editor, escapes his dreary reality by imagining himself as various swashbuckling heroes, but when damsel-in-distress Rosalind van Hoorn seeks his help, he becomes embroiled in a real clock-and-dagger thriller of a struggle.

Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.