Bring Your Smile Along

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 hotheaded 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.

See also

• List of American films of 1955

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