This Happy Breed

7.1
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 115 min
  • Premiere: 1944. May 28.

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival, and even another World War.

Discover

Robert Newton

Frank Gibbons

Celia Johnson

Ethel Gibbons

Amy Veness

Mrs. Flint

Alison Leggatt

Aunt Sylvia

Stanley Holloway

Bob Mitchell

John Mills

Billy Mitchell

Kay Walsh

Queenie Gibbons

Eileen Erskine

Vi Gibbons

John Blythe

Reg Gibbons

Guy Verney

Sam Leadbitter

Betty Fleetwood

Phyllis Blake

Mabel Etherington

Woman in Crowd

Jack May

Mourner

Laurence Olivier

Narrator (voice)

Art

C.P. Norman

Art Direction

Arthur Lawson

Assistant Art Director

Harold Hurdell

Draughtsman

Camera

Ronald Neame

Director of Photography

Guy Green

Camera Operator

Eugene H.E. Pizey

Still Photographer

George Minassian

Focus Puller

David Lytton

Clapper Loader

B. Francke

Camera Operator

Jim Body

Focus Puller

Dennis Bartlett

Clapper Loader

Costume & Make-Up

Tony Sforzini

Makeup Artist

Hilda Collins

Wardrobe Supervisor

Marjorie Whittle

Assistant Hairstylist

Vivienne Walker

Hairdresser

Crew

W. Percy Day

Special Effects

Charles Staffell

Projection

George Blackwell

Special Effects

Directing

David Lean

Director

Maggie Unsworth

Continuity

Anthony Hearne

Third Assistant Director

George Pollock

Assistant Director

Editing

Jack Harris

Editor

Norah Walsh

Assistant Editor

Production

Noël Coward

Producer

Robert C. Foord

Assistant Production Manager

Jack Martin

Production Manager

Kenneth Horne

Production Manager

Ronald Neame

Associate Producer

Sound

Muir Mathieson

Music Director

John Cook

Sound Recordist

Desmond Dew

Sound Recordist

C. C. Stevens

Sound Recordist

Muir Mathieson

Conductor

Gordon K. McCallum

Boom Operator

Percy Dayton

Boom Operator

Clifton Parker

Original Music Composer

Muir Mathieson

Original Music Composer

George Paternoster

Boom Operator

Writing

Noël Coward

Theatre Play

David Lean

Screenplay

Ronald Neame

Screenplay

Art

C.P. Norman

Art Direction

Arthur Lawson

Assistant Art Director

Harold Hurdell

Draughtsman

Camera

Ronald Neame

Director of Photography

Guy Green

Camera Operator

Eugene H.E. Pizey

Still Photographer

George Minassian

Focus Puller

David Lytton

Clapper Loader

B. Francke

Camera Operator

Jim Body

Focus Puller

Dennis Bartlett

Clapper Loader

Costume & Make-Up

Tony Sforzini

Makeup Artist

Hilda Collins

Wardrobe Supervisor

Marjorie Whittle

Assistant Hairstylist

Vivienne Walker

Hairdresser

Crew

W. Percy Day

Special Effects

Charles Staffell

Projection

George Blackwell

Special Effects

Directing

David Lean

Director

Maggie Unsworth

Continuity

Anthony Hearne

Third Assistant Director

George Pollock

Assistant Director

Editing

Jack Harris

Editor

Norah Walsh

Assistant Editor

Production

Noël Coward

Producer

Robert C. Foord

Assistant Production Manager

Jack Martin

Production Manager

Kenneth Horne

Production Manager

Ronald Neame

Associate Producer

Sound

Muir Mathieson

Music Director

John Cook

Sound Recordist

Desmond Dew

Sound Recordist

C. C. Stevens

Sound Recordist

Muir Mathieson

Conductor

Gordon K. McCallum

Boom Operator

Percy Dayton

Boom Operator

Clifton Parker

Original Music Composer

Muir Mathieson

Original Music Composer

George Paternoster

Boom Operator

Writing

Noël Coward

Theatre Play

David Lean

Screenplay

Ronald Neame

Screenplay