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This Happy Breed

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

7.1/ 1019441h 51mPG

Drama

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.

Directed by David Lean

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Robert Newton

Robert Newton

Frank Gibbons

Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson

Ethel Gibbons

Amy Veness

Amy Veness

Mrs. Flint

Alison Leggatt

Alison Leggatt

Aunt Sylvia

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Bob Mitchell

John Mills

John Mills

Billy Mitchell

Kay Walsh

Kay Walsh

Queenie Gibbons

Eileen Erskine

Vi Gibbons