Exit Smiling

{{Infobox film

| name = Exit Smiling

| image = Exit Smiling.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Sam Taylor

| producer = Sam Taylor (uncredited)

| writer = Tim Whelan and Sam Taylor

| based_on = {{based on|Exit Smiling|Marc Connelly}}

| starring = Beatrice Lillie
Jack Pickford

| music =

| cinematography = André Barlatier

| editing = Daniel J. Gray

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1926|11|14}}

| runtime = 77 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

}}

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Exit Smiling is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring New York and London revues star Beatrice Lillie in her first (and only silent) film role and Jack Pickford, the brother of star Mary Pickford. The film was also the debut of actor Franklin Pangborn. This film is available on DVD from the Warner Archives Collection.Eames, John Douglas (1981). The MGM Story, 1981[https://archive.today/20130210052526/http://www.wbshop.com/ExitSmiling/1000179542,default,pd.html?cgid= Exit Smiling available on DVD or download from the Warner Archive Collection]

Plot

Violet (Beatrice Lillie), the travelling theatre troupe's worst actress, dreams of all she could be if she only had the right opportunities. Jimmy (Jack Pickford) is a runaway bank clerk who joins the troupe as a juvenile lead actor.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}