Bring Your Smile Along

New England schoolteacher Nancy Willows leaves her school and fiancé David Parker to go to New York City for a career as a lyricist. Her neighbors across the hall are an easy going singer named Jerry Dennis and his hotheaded songwriter roommate Marty Adams who is incapable of writing acceptable lyrics for his songs. ==Cast==

==Edwards and Quine's partnership==

Richard Quine and Blake Edwards would subsequently write He Laughed Last for Frankie 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 launching his own directing career. Their latter day 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==