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.
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 Quines 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 shortlived sitcom The Mickey Rooney Show, and developed Rooneys 1954 spoof, The Atomic Kid, for Republic Pictures.
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