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Laughter in Paradise is a British comedy film released in 1951. The film stars Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton. The film was remade in 1970 as Some Will, Some Won't. When wealthy, well-known practical joker Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) dies, four relatives find out that they stand to inherit considerable sums ... provided they commit acts that are completely contrary to their natures. Law-abiding Deniston Russell (Alastair Sim) has to get himself arrested and jailed for 28 days. Difficult, snobbish Agnes Russell (Fay Compton) has to find work as a maid and keep... MORE

Laughter in Paradise is a British comedy film released in 1951. The film stars Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton. The film was remade in 1970 as Some Will, Some Won't. When wealthy, well-known practical joker Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) dies, four relatives find out that they stand to inherit considerable sums ... provided they commit acts that are completely contrary to their natures. Law-abiding Deniston Russell (Alastair Sim) has to get himself arrested and jailed for 28 days. Difficult, snobbish Agnes Russell (Fay Compton) has to find work as a maid and keep her job long enough to qualify. She ends up with irascible Gordon Webb (John Laurie), who deduces that his new servant has to keep her job for some reason and proceeds to make her life difficult. Simon Russell (Guy Middleton) is a womanizing cad; his task is to marry the first single woman he meets. Timid Herbert Russell (George Cole) is assigned to hold up the bank where he works, with a toy pistol. A very young Audrey Hepburn makes a brief appearance, playing a cigarette girl. This was Hepburn's first professional appearance on film (save for a brief role in a 1948 Dutch film entitled Dutch in LESS