Smilin' Through is a 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. Events January-February January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States... 1932 film nominated for the The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar... Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by James Bernard Fagan, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West, from the play Smiling Through written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. The movie was directed by Sidney Franklin.

The film is a A melodrama, in the broadest sense, is a serious drama that can be distinguished from tragedy by the fact that it is open to having a happy ending. In practice, it is a rather pejorative term. In melodrama there is constructed a world of heightened emotion, stock characters and a... melodrama starring Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec. Norma Shearer She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGMs second-in... Norma Shearer, Fredric March photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel) (August 31, 1897 - April 14, 1975) was an Academy Award winning American actor. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He began as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to reevaluate his life, and in... Fredric March, Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was a British film actor of Hungarian descent. Born Leslie Howard Stainer in Forest Hill, London, Howards classic good looks won him his first screen role in a 1914 silent film, following which he served in World War I, his military... Leslie Howard and Ralph Forbes (September 30, 1905 - March 31, 1951) was a U.S. actor. Categories: Stub | 1905 births | 1951 deaths ... Ralph Forbes.

The movie was originally made in 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann... 1922, and remade in 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian... 1941.