Smilin' Through (1941)

6.3/10 100 min Music Fantasy Romance

Overview

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.

Cast

Jeanette MacDonald

Kathleen / Moonyean Clare

Brian Aherne

Sir John Carteret

Gene Raymond

Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne

Ian Hunter

Reverend Owen Harding

Frances Robinson

Ellen, John's Housekeeper

Patrick O'Moore

Willie Ainley

Jackie Horner

Kathleen, as a Child

David Clyde

Sexton

Frances Carson

Lady Denham, a Dowager

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