This Happy Breed (1944)

Name: This Happy Breed
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1944-05-28
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Stanley Holloway

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

115 min★ 7.3 · 4,703 votes

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

Release date: May 28, 1944
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Budget: $900,000

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Cast

Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons
Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons
Amy Veness as Mrs. Flint
Alison Leggatt as Aunt Sylvia
Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell
John Mills as Billy Mitchell
Kay Walsh as Queenie
Eileen Erskine as Vi
John Blythe as Reg
Guy Verney as Sam Leadbitter
Merle Tottenham as Edie
Jack May as Mourner
Laurence Olivier as Narrator (voice)

Crew

David Lean · Director
David Lean · Writer
Ronald Neame · Writer
Anthony Havelock-Allan · Writer
Noël Coward · Producer
Ronald Neame · Cinematographer
Jack Harris · Editor