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He Laughed Last
Directed by	Blake Edwards
Written by	Blake Edwards Richard Quine
Produced by	Jonie Taps
Starring	Frankie Laine Lucy Marlow Anthony Dexter Dick Long Alan Reed Jesse White
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Edited by	Jack Ogilvie
Music by	Arthur Morton
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	August 12, 1956 (1956-08-12)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

He Laughed Last is a 1956 American Technicolor comedy film by Blake Edwards. Edwards adapted the film for his 1999 Off-Broadway show, Big Rosemary starring Cady Huffman as Rosemary "Rosie" Lebeau, the role played by Lucy Marlow in this film.

Plot

The film is a Runyonesque Roaring 20s musical comedy about show girl Rosemary "Rosie" Lebeau, who circumstance casts as an unlikely mob boss.

Cast

• Frankie Laine as Gino Lupo
• Lucy Marlow as Rosemary "Rosie" Lebeau
• Anthony Dexter as Dominic Rodríguez
• Richard Long as Jimmy Murphy
• Alan Reed as Big Dan Hennessy
• Jesse White as Max Lassiter
• Florenz Ames as George Eagle
• Henry Slate as Ziggy

See also

• List of American films of 1956

External links

• He Laughed Last at IMDb
• He Laughed Last at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
• He Laughed Last at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films