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Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...
...Smilin' Through...
...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...
...Smilin' Through has now been set to music, rechristened Through the Years...