Smilin' Through (1932)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 24, 1932Release Date
Smilin' Through (1932)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 24, 1932Release Date
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Plot.
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
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Cast & Crew.
Norma Shearer
Kathleen
Fredric March
Kenneth Wayne
Leslie Howard
Sir John Carteret
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Owen
Ralph Forbes
Willie Ainley
Beryl Mercer
Mrs. Crouch
Margaret Seddon
Ellen
Donald Ogden Stewart
Writer
Mary Carlisle
Young Party Guest
Forrester Harvey
Orderly
Herbert Bunston
Minister
Cora Sue Collins
Young Kathleen
Claude King
Richard Clare, Moonyeen's Father
James Bush
Young Party Guest
Sidney Franklin
Director
David Torrence
Gardener
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Wiki.
Smilin' Through is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM romantic drama film based on the 1919 play of the same name written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin under the pseudonym of Allan Langdon Martin. It was adapted from the play by James Bernard Fagan, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin and stars Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard and Ralph Forbes.
The film is a remake of an earlier 1922 silent version, also directed by Franklin and starring Norma Talmadge.
Smilin' Through was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1932.