Word: smilin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an old-fashioned cinema, gentle, lachrymose and romantic, calculated to make the throat of any susceptible cinemaddict like that of a giraffe swallowing oranges. The first lump occurs 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...
...restatement of the plot of Smilin' Through"conceived by Jane Cowl who acted in it in 1919-22-can make it seem other than a balderdash tearjerker. Basically this is a fair 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...
Miss Cowl called her play Smilin' Through, and there are those who still feel a sympathetic tear in their eye when they reflect on how dulcet was Miss Cowl in her dual role of both heroines, how pleasant was the treacly little theme song of that piece...
...Smilin' Through has now been set to music, rechristened Through the Years...
...recently. In addition to "Daddy Longlegs," and "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," at least four other old productions are coming out again. They are "The Miracle Man," the show which brought stardom to Thomas Meighan, Rence Adores, and Lon Chaney; "Fireman Save My Child," formerly a Beery-Hatton vehicle; "Smilin' Through," in which Norma Shearer will do the part once taken by Norma Talmadge; and "The Man Who Played God," a story about a musician who becomes deal and learns to read lips which George Arliss will star in again as he did almost ten years...