Smilin' Through (1941)

Director: Frank Borzage

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.

Cast

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