This Happy Breed (1944) Cast & Crew

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Directed by David Lean.

Cast

• Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons
• Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons
• Amy Veness as Mrs. Flint
• Alison Leggatt as Aunt Sylvia
• Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell
• John Mills as Billy Mitchell
• Kay Walsh as Queenie Gibbons
• Eileen Erskine as Vi Gibbons
• John Blythe as Reg Gibbons
• Guy Verney as Sam Leadbitter
• Betty Fleetwood as Phyllis Blake
• Merle Tottenham as Edie
• Mabel Etherington as Woman in Crowd
• Jack May as Mourner
• Laurence Olivier as Narrator (voice)

Crew

• David Lean — Director
• Noël Coward — Producer
• Ronald Neame — Director of Photography
• Muir Mathieson — Original Music Composer
• Clifton Parker — Original Music Composer
• Ronald Neame — Screenplay
• David Lean — Screenplay
• Anthony Havelock-Allan — Screenplay

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