Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist in the War. When Kathleen tells her foster-father the name of her admirer-Kenneth Wayne-the whole story comes out. Kenneth Wayne's father is the man who jealously murdered John Carteret's fiancee...
...estimate of the picture. But Smilin' Through possesses also all the qualities which make cinema a persuasive art and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the most persuasive of cinemanufacturers. Director Sidney Franklin* treated his story with the manner appropriate for an afternoon in the attic peeking at grandmother's love letters. Leslie Howard and Fredric March act with finish and aplomb. Norma Shearer's part, immensely different from the ones she has lately played in parlor tragedies, is the one Norma Talmadge originated for the cinema in 1922. Miss Shearer performs it ably, a little less effectively...
...other Hollywood companies finish, it is generally conceded that Warner's strong point lies in selecting stories. One Way Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco...
...Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire parish to be ousted by the Covenanters...
...facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members of the community. Barney was happy but he smelt rats. Just as they were planning to move on to Canada the detectives found...