Based on Noel Coward's London legit hit, film soundly captures the spirit of the 1920s and 1930s reviving the era of the British general strike, the jazz dress style, the Charleston, and the ...

Episodic telling of 20 years of the working-class Gibbons family in their South London rental house from 1919 to 1939--from just after the conclusion of WWI to just before the start of WWII. Beyond ...

The title of Noel Coward’s little-known 1942 drama This Happy Breed is ironic: though it comes from Shakespeare’s paean to England as “this orb, this sceptre’d isle,” the English family it portrays ...

An amusing incident in Noel Coward’s play, This Happy Breed (Act III, Scene 1), finds Frank and his sister Sylvia sitting in the lounge room. Sylvia, a soured spinster, has become an ardent Christian ...

David Lean's second film as director, his first one solo after co-directing In Which We Serve (1942) with Noël Coward, who produced this film, based upon his own play. It's a very good character ...

Frank Gibbons, living right by the Clapham omnibus, is Noel Coward’s idealised English working-man, ever grateful to his employer in this cavalcade of the lower classes. He’s similar to his new ...

This marriage ain't big enough for the both of them.