This Happy Breed (1944)

19441h 50mdir. David LeanUnited Kingdomdrama film

With Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway, John Mills, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Kay Walsh, Laurence Olivier

Directed by David Lean

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This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills. The screenplay by Lean (who also made his screenwriting debut), Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame is based on the 1939 play This Happy Breed, by Noël Coward.

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