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This Happy Breed

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

  • Movie
  • 1944
  • PG
  • 1h 51m

Directed by David Lean

7.1

TMDB audience rating
7.1 out of 10 from 65 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Robert Newton

    Robert NewtonFrank Gibbons

  • Celia Johnson

    Celia JohnsonEthel Gibbons

  • Amy Veness

    Amy VenessMrs. Flint

  • Alison Leggatt

    Alison LeggattAunt Sylvia

  • Stanley Holloway

    Stanley HollowayBob Mitchell

  • John Mills

    John MillsBilly Mitchell

  • Kay Walsh

    Kay WalshQueenie Gibbons

  • Eileen ErskineVi Gibbons

  • John Blythe

    John BlytheReg Gibbons

  • Guy VerneySam Leadbitter

  • Betty FleetwoodPhyllis Blake

  • Merle Tottenham

    Merle TottenhamEdie

  • Mabel EtheringtonWoman in Crowd

  • Jack May

    Jack MayMourner

  • Laurence Olivier

    Laurence OlivierNarrator (voice)

Director
David Lean
Writer
David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan
Music
Clifton Parker and Muir Mathieson
Cinematography
Ronald Neame