Smilin' Through (1941)

Music
Fantasy
Romance

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. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.

Cast

Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
Sir John Carteret
Woman with Lady Denham
Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Reverend Owen Harding
Ellen, John's Housekeeper
Willie Ainley
Charles, Kenneth's Batman
Kathleen, as a Child
Lady Denham, a Dowager

Crew

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