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This Happy Breed

1944, Movie, NR, 110 mins

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Based on Noel Coward's hit play (in which he also starred), this cavalcade of British life between wars was one of the top moneymakers in the UK in 1944, but it took three more years to reach US screens. Laurence Olivier narrates the episodic story of a family that lives in a small row house, totally indistinguishable from all the other houses surrounding it. This average working-class family includes father Newton, mother Johnson, and their two children, Walsh (who just hap... read more leave a comment
Year: 1944
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Newton: Frank Gibbons
Celia Johnson: Ethel Gibbons
John Mills: Billy Mitchell
Kay Walsh: Queenie Gibbons
Stanley Holloway: Bob Mitchell
Amy Veness: Mrs. Flint

 

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