Smilin Through (1941)

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 Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America Kenneth Wayne When John hears of this he is furious and we learn that it was Kenneths father Jeremy who had killed Moonyean years before John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation and threatens to ruin his nieces happiness but he softens in the end