Smilin' Through

The Musical Triumph In Technicolor

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.

Jeanette MacDonald

Kathleen / Moonyean Clare

Brian Aherne

Sir John Carteret

Gene Raymond

Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne

Ian Hunter

Reverend Owen Harding

Frances Robinson

Ellen, John's Housekeeper

Patrick O'Moore

Willie Ainley

Eric Lonsdale

Charles, Kenneth's Batman

Jackie Horner

Kathleen, as a Child

David Clyde

Sexton

Frances Carson

Lady Denham, a Dowager

Ruth Rickaby

Woman with Lady Denham