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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Smilin' Through<br />
| image = Smilin'_Through_poster_1941.jpg<br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| director = [[Frank Borzage]]<br />
| producer = Frank Borzage<br>[[Victor Saville]]<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Smilin' Through (play)|Smilin' Through]]''<br>1919 play|[[Jane Cowl]] and [[Jane Murfin]]}}<br />
| writer = [[Donald Ogden Stewart]]<br>[[John L. Balderston]]<br />
| starring = [[Jeanette MacDonald]]<br>[[Brian Aherne]]<br>[[Gene Raymond]]<br>[[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]]<br />
| music = [[Herbert Stothart]] <br />
| cinematography = [[Leonard Smith (cinematographer)|Leonard Smith]]<br />
| editing = [[Frank Sullivan (film editor)|Frank Sullivan]]<br />
| studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]<br />
| distributor = [[Loews Cineplex Entertainment|Loew's Inc.]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1941|10|}}<br />
| runtime = 100 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = $1,105,000<ref name="Turk">Turk, Edward Baron "Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald" (University of California Press, 1998)</ref><br />
| gross = $868,000 (Domestic earnings)<ref name="Turk"/><br>$1,536,000 (Foreign earnings)<ref name="Turk"/><br />
}}<br />
'''''Smilin' Through''''' is a 1941 American [[Technicolor]] [[musical film]] directed by [[Frank Borzage]] and starring [[Jeanette MacDonald]], [[Brian Aherne]], [[Gene Raymond]] and [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]].<ref>Goble p.339</ref><ref>Higgins p.210</ref> Produced by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], it is based on the 1919 [[Smilin' Through (play)|play of the same name]] by [[Jane Cowl]] and [[Jane Murfin]]. The film was a remake of a previous [[Smilin' Through (1932 film)|1932 version]] by MGM and was the third and final film version of the play. It was filmed in [[Technicolor]] and was remade as a musical for MacDonald with several older songs interpolated into the story.<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
In late [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[England]] Kathleen is a young [[Irish people|Irish]] woman in love with an American, Kenneth Wayne. The romance, however, is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who recalls the painful memory of his tragically thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean Clare many years before.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Jeanette MacDonald]] as Kathleen Dungannon/ Moonyean Clare<br />
* [[Brian Aherne]] as Sir John Carteret<br />
* [[Gene Raymond]] as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne<br />
* [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]] as Reverend Owen Harding<br />
* [[Frances Robinson (actress)|Frances Robinson]] as Ellen<br />
* [[Patrick O'Moore]] as Willie<br />
* Eric Lonsdale as Charles, Kenneth's Batman<br />
* Jackie Horner as Kathleen, as a Child<br />
* David Clyde as Sexton<br />
* [[Frances Carson]] as Dowager<br />
* Ruth Rickaby as Woman<br />
* [[Wyndham Standing]] as Doctor <br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.<br />
* Higgins, Scott. ''Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s''. University of Texas Press, 2009.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* {{IMDb title|0034203}}<br />
* {{TCMDb title|2503}}<br />
* {{AFI film|27048}}<br />
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