Smiling Irish Eyes

Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)

A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.

Date of release
1929-07-22
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Music, Drama, Romance
Director
William A. Seiter

Casting

Interesting facts

Smiling Irish Eyes is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code Vitaphone musical film with Technicolor sequences directed by William A. Seiter. The film is now considered a lost film. However, the Vitaphone audio discs still exist.

Background

Smiling Irish Eyes was Colleen Moore's first musical role, and only her first sound film. Produced by her husband at the time, John McCormick (1893–1961), the film featured Moore as Kathleen O'Connor, an Irish woman who follows her musician sweetheart Rory O'More (James Hall) to New York City.

This film is similar to an earlier film Moore made for Samuel Goldwyn, Come On Over (1922), directed by Rupert Hughes. As in Smiling Irish Eyes, Colleen played an Irish girl whose betrothed crosses the ocean to start a new life in America before sending for her. In both films, the boyfriends do not send for her right away, in both she travels to America only to find the boyfriend seemingly besotted by another girl.

Following this film, Moore made another film directed by Seiter, Footlights and Fools (1929). This latter film also had Technicolor sequences, and is now considered a lost film, although the Vitaphone discs survive.

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