This Happy Breed

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, 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.

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

Merle Tottenham

Edie

Mabel Etherington

Woman in Crowd

Jack May

Mourner

Laurence Olivier

Narrator (voice)