This Happy Breed (1944)
May 28, 1944Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Newton
Frank Gibbons
Celia Johnson
Ethel Gibbons
John Mills
Billy Mitchell
Kay Walsh
Queenie
Stanley Holloway
Bob Mitchell
Amy Veness
Mrs. Flint
Alison Leggatt
Aunt Sylvia
Eileen Erskine
Vi
John Blythe
Reg
Betty Fleetwood
Phyllis Blake
Guy Verney
Sam Leadbitter
Merle Tottenham
Edie
David Lean
Director
Mabel Etherington
Woman in Crowd
Jack May
Mourner
Ronald Neame
Writer
Laurence Olivier
Narrator (voice)
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Writer
Noël Coward
Producer
George Pollock
Assistant Director
Jack Harris
Editor
George Blackwell
Special Effects / Modeling
Charles Staffell
Projection
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
Muir Mathieson
Original Music Composer / Music Director / Conductor
Clifton Parker
Original Music Composer
Guy Green
Camera Operator
W. Percy Day
Special Effects
Arthur Lawson
Assistant Art Director
C.P. Norman
Art Direction
Gordon K. McCallum
Boom Operator
Vivienne Walker
Hairdresser
C. C. Stevens
Sound Recordist
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist
Maggie Unsworth
Continuity
Marjorie Whittle
Assistant Hairstylist
Robert C. Foord
Assistant Production Manager
Jack Martin
Production Manager
John Cook
Sound Recordist
Eugene H.E. Pizey
Still Photographer
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This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills. The screenplay by Lean (who also made his screenwriting debut), Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame is based on the 1939 play This Happy Breed, by Noël Coward. It tells the story of an inter-war suburban London family, set against the backdrop of what were then recent news events, moving from the postwar era of the 1920s to the inevitability of another war, and the passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Domestic triumphs and tragedies play against such transformative changes as the coming of household radio and talking pictures. The film was not released in the United States until April 1947.