- Bring Your Smile Along
Infobox_Film
name = Bring Your Smile Along
caption =
imdb_id = 0047899
amg_id = 1:86010
director =Blake Edwards
writer =Blake Edwards Richard Quine
starring =Frankie Laine Keefe Brasselle
producer =Jonie Taps
music =Paul Mason Howard
cinematography=Charles Lawton Jr.
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =22 June 1955
runtime = 83 min.
language = English"Bring Your Smile Along" is a 1955 comedy
film byBlake Edwards . It was Edwards' directorial debut.Edwards wrote the script for this
Frankie Laine musical with his mentor, directorRichard Quine . Quine and Edwards would subsequently writeHe Laughed Last for Laine. Edwards had previously written several scripts for Quine to direct:Sound Off was a 1952 service comedy starringMickey Rooney ;Rainbow Round My Shoulder was an earlier Laine vehicle from the same team;All Ashore was Quine and Edwards' variation on "On the Town" teaming Rooney andDick Haymes . Haymes also starred in theirCruisin' Down the River . Edwards directed second unit on Quine'sDrive a Crooked Road which cast Rooney against type and featured Quine and Edwards' best feature film script. Edwards continued working with Quine after his launching his own directing career. Their latterday efforts included the earlyJack Lemmon films:My Sister Eileen , , andThe Notorious Landlady . Quine and Edwards also created the short-lived situation comedy,The Mickey Rooney Show and developed Rooney's 1954 spoof,The Atomic Kid forRepublic Pictures .
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