Bring Your Smile Along

Bring Your Smile Along
Directed by	Blake Edwards
Produced by	Jonie Taps
Written by	Blake Edwards Richard Quine
Starring	Frankie Laine Keefe Brasselle Constance Towers
Music by	Paul Mason Howard
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by	Al Clark
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	June 22, 1955 (1955-06-22)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bring Your Smile Along is a 1955 Technicolor comedy film by Blake Edwards. It was Edwards' directorial debut and the motion picture debut of Constance Towers. Edwards wrote the script for this Frankie Laine musical with his mentor, director Richard Quine. Songs Laine sang in the film included his 1951 hit "The Gandy Dancers' Ball."

Plot

New England schoolteacher Nancy Willows (Constance Towers) leaves her school and fiancee David Parker (William Leslie) to go to New York City for a career as a lyricist. Her neighbours across the hall are an easy going singer named Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine) and his hot headed songwriter roommate Marty Adams (Keefe Brasselle) who is incapable of writing acceptable lyrics for his songs.

Cast

Frankie Laine as Jerry Dennis
Keefe Brasselle as Martin 'Marty' Adams
Constance Towers as Nancy Willows
Lucy Marlow as Marge Stevenson
William Leslie as David Parker
Mario Siletti as Ricardo
Ruth Warren as Mrs. Klein, Landlady
Jack Albertson as Mr. Jenson
Bobby Clark as Waldo
Murray Leonard as Dave
Ida Smeraldo as Mama

Edwards and Quine's partnership

Quine and Edwards would subsequently write He Laughed Last for Laine. Edwards had previously written several scripts for Quine to direct: Sound Off was a 1952 service comedy starring Mickey Rooney; Rainbow Round My Shoulder was an earlier Laine vehicle from the same team; and All Ashore was Quine and Edwards' variation on On the Town teaming Rooney and Dick Haymes. Haymes also starred in their Cruisin' Down the River. Edwards directed second unit on Quine's Drive a Crooked Road, which cast Rooney against type and featured Quine and Edwards' script. Edwards continued working with Quine after his launching his own directing career. Their latterday efforts included the early Jack Lemmon films: My Sister Eileen, Operation Mad Ball, and The Notorious Landlady. Quine and Edwards also created the short-lived sitcom The Mickey Rooney Show, and developed Rooney's 1954 spoof, The Atomic Kid, for Republic Pictures.

References

External links

Bring Your Smile Along at the Internet Movie Database
Bring Your Smile Along at AllMovie
Bring Your Smile Along at the TCM Movie Database
Bring Your Smile Along at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by Blake Edwards

Bring Your Smile Along (1955)
He Laughed Last (1956)
Mister Cory (1957)
This Happy Feeling (1958)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
High Time (1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Experiment in Terror (1962)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
The Great Race (1965)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Gunn (1967)
The Party (1968)
Darling Lili (1970)
Wild Rovers (1971)
The Carey Treatment (1972)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
10 (1979)
S.O.B. (1981)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
Micki & Maude (1984)
A Fine Mess (1986)
That's Life! (1986)
Blind Date (1987)
Sunset (1988)
Justin Case (1988)
Skin Deep (1989)
Peter Gunn (1989)
Switch (1991)
Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

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