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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."
New England schoolteacher Nancy Willows 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 (Laine) and his hot headed songwriter... MORE
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."
New England schoolteacher Nancy Willows 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 (Laine) and his hot headed songwriter roommate Marty Adams (Keefe Brasselle) who is incapable of writing acceptable lyrics for his songs.
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 LESS
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