This Happy Breed
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This Happy Breed
Noel Coward
The inter-war life of the Gibbons family in their new suburban home.
Starring John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach and Doris Hare.
Noel Coward's play covers a 20-year period from June 1919, when the Gibbons family move in to their new home near London’s Clapham Common, to when they moved out in June 1939.
Frank Gibbons …. John Moffatt
Ethel …. Rosemary Leach
Mrs Flint …. Doris Hare
Queenie …. Alice Arnold
Bob …. Robert Lang
Sylvia …. Anna Cropper
Billy …. Michael Maloney
Vi …. Julia Swift
Phyllis …. Elizabeth Mansfield
Reg …. John McAndrew
Sam …. Simon Treves
Written in 1939, This Happy Breed was not staged until 1942.
It was adapted as a film in 1944 directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson and John Mills.
Director: Glyn Dearman
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