Word: smilin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keep Smilin' (John Kirby; Victor). A primitive, mournful chant to the words "Let's keep laughing, let's be happy...
...Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lachrymose, sticky, super-sentimental romance conceived and acted by Jane Cowl for the post-war U.S. of 1919. Cinematized, it was played by Norma Talmadge in 1922, by Norma Shearer in 1932. Its present revival differs from its predecessors in one respect: Technicolor...
...Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...
This gossamer geewhillikin is played to the last teardrop against a pastoral background of acres of olde English sets. Occasionally Songbird MacDonald comes down to earth long enough to warble Smilin' Through, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes and other songs of long ago. She is in good voice. The same cannot be said of her husband, blond Gene Raymond, who acts as if he cannot make up his mind what century he is performing...