Only When I Laugh
Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's 1970 play The Gingerbread Lady.
Plot
Actress Georgia Hines is released from alcohol rehab and returns to her Manhattan apartment and her friends: Jimmy Perrino, a gay unemployed actor, and Toby Landau, a sophisticated socialite. She says she will maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work. Georgia's teenaged daughter Polly, who has been living with her father and her new stepmother Felicia, asks if she could move in with her mother. Georgia agrees.
More details
| author | Neil Simon |
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| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Glenn Jordan |
| editor | John Wright |
| events | alcoholism family |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | drink even kiss manhattan morning open phone call reject tavern on the green unemployed actor wound |
| musicBy | David Shire |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award |
| producer | Neil Simon Roger M. Rothstein |
| productionCompany | Rastar |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | California Warner Bros. |