Smiling Irish Eyes

Smiling Irish Eyes 1929 is a sound AllTalking American musical film with Technicolor sequences.The film is now considered a lost film. However, the Vitaphone discs still exist.

Smiling Irish Eyes was Colleen Moores first musical role, and only her second sound film. Produced by her husband at the time, John McCormick 18931961, the film featured Moore as Kathleen OConnor, an Irish woman who follows her musician sweetheart Rory OMore 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. In both, cases this is a misunderstanding. In Come On Over, Colleens character reluctantly remains in America where she learns that her boyfriend is actually helping the father of the other woman quit drinking. In Smiling Irish Eyes, Colleens character returns to Ireland, followed by the boyfriend, who convinces her back in Ireland that it was a misunderstanding. They marry and return to America. 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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