Smile

Smile is a 1975 American satirical comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Jerry Belson, and starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, and Geoffey Lewis. It focuses on various personalities involved in a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California, and satirizes small-town America and its peculiarities, hypocrisies and artifice within and around the pageant. Melanie Griffith, Denise Nickerson, Annette O'Toole, and Colleen Camp appear in early roles in their respective careers as pageant contestants.