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Throughout the years 1919-1939, the Gibbons are like any other lower middle-class English family. There’s the patriarch, Frank (Creator/Robert Newton), (Creator/RobertNewton), who served in UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar, his steadfast wife, Ethel (Celia Johnson), and their three vibrant children; Vivian, Reggie, and Queenie.
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Throughout the years 1919-1939, the Gibbons are like any other lower middle-class English family. There’s the patriarch, Frank (Robert (Creator/Robert Newton), who served in UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar, his steadfast wife, Ethel (Celia Johnson), and their three vibrant children; Vivian, Reggie, and Queenie.
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* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: When Ethel finds out that Queenie has run away with a married man, she disowns her and refuses to have any contact with her. Frank, on the other hand, continues to communicate with his daughter and wants to mend the broken relationship with her and her mother.
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* IWillWaitForYou: Billy is deeply in love with Queenie. When she soundly rejects him on the basis of being boring, he still says that he’ll wait for her to come around eventually.
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* IWillWaitForYou: Billy Mitchell (John Mills) is deeply in love with Queenie. When she soundly rejects him on the basis of being boring, he still says that he’ll wait for her to come around eventually.
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''This Happy Breed'' is a 1944 Technicolor [[BritishFilms British]] drama directed by Creator/DavidLean and based on a play by Creator/NoelCoward. This was Creator/DavidLean’s directorial debut, as he was a film editor before becoming a director.
Throughout the years 1919-1939, the Gibbons are like any other lower middle-class English family. There’s the patriarch, Frank (Robert Newton), who served in UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar, his steadfast wife, Ethel (Celia Johnson), and their three vibrant children; Vivian, Reggie, and Queenie.
Through deaths, marriages, children, and heartbreak, the film follows their tribulations and glimpses of happiness as the family transitions through 20 years of English history.
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!!Tropes:
*BreakTheHaughty: Queenie gets a thorough lesson in appreciating her parents and the life they lead. She runs away with a married man who ditches her in Europe. Left stranded, she is forced to earn her own living and realize how wrong she’s been.
*CrankyNeighbour: Averted: Bob Mitchell is the friendliest neighbour anyone could ask for.
*DadTheVeteran: Frank and Bob both served in World War I.
*FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Vivian is the proper one who gets married and settles down while Queenie is not satisfied with her middle-class life and wants something more.
*HappilyMarried: Frank and Ethel are Main/StiffUpperLip middle-class types, but they truly do love each other.
*KitchenSinkDrama: A surprising one from Noel Coward.
*IAmVeryBritish: The Gibbons very much hide their feelings from each other. Deconstructed in a sense when Queenie returns and the often cool Ethel breaks down in tears in seeing her daughter again.
*[[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: When Ethel finds out that Queenie has run away with a married man, she disowns her and refuses to have any contact with her. Frank, on the other hand, continues to communicate with his daughter and wants to mend the broken relationship with her and her mother.
*IWillWaitForYou: Billy is deeply in love with Queenie. When she soundly rejects him on the basis of being boring, he still says that he’ll wait for her to come around eventually.
*NeverSayDie: Averted: Frank is adamant that it bothers him exceedingly when someone uses a euphemism for death.
*ShoutOut: The film’s title comes from ‘‘Theater/RichardTheSecond’’.
*SpoiledBrat: Queenie to a T.
*TheStrawman: Sam is a communist through and through until he marries Vivian and settles down. Queenie remarks that all the life has been taken out of him when he no longer spouts his Bolshevik ideals.
*ParentalFavoritism: Frank accuses Ethel of this, stating that she prefers Vivian and Reggie over Queenie.
*ObnoxiousInLaws: Ethel’s mother is very exacting and annoying to everyone but especially to Sylvia.
*WhereDidWeGoWrong: When Queenie runs away, Ethel asks herself this over and over, wondering if they indulged their children too much.
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Throughout the years 1919-1939, the Gibbons are like any other lower middle-class English family. There’s the patriarch, Frank (Robert Newton), who served in UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar, his steadfast wife, Ethel (Celia Johnson), and their three vibrant children; Vivian, Reggie, and Queenie.
Through deaths, marriages, children, and heartbreak, the film follows their tribulations and glimpses of happiness as the family transitions through 20 years of English history.
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!!Tropes:
*BreakTheHaughty: Queenie gets a thorough lesson in appreciating her parents and the life they lead. She runs away with a married man who ditches her in Europe. Left stranded, she is forced to earn her own living and realize how wrong she’s been.
*CrankyNeighbour: Averted: Bob Mitchell is the friendliest neighbour anyone could ask for.
*DadTheVeteran: Frank and Bob both served in World War I.
*FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Vivian is the proper one who gets married and settles down while Queenie is not satisfied with her middle-class life and wants something more.
*HappilyMarried: Frank and Ethel are Main/StiffUpperLip middle-class types, but they truly do love each other.
*KitchenSinkDrama: A surprising one from Noel Coward.
*IAmVeryBritish: The Gibbons very much hide their feelings from each other. Deconstructed in a sense when Queenie returns and the often cool Ethel breaks down in tears in seeing her daughter again.
*[[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: When Ethel finds out that Queenie has run away with a married man, she disowns her and refuses to have any contact with her. Frank, on the other hand, continues to communicate with his daughter and wants to mend the broken relationship with her and her mother.
*IWillWaitForYou: Billy is deeply in love with Queenie. When she soundly rejects him on the basis of being boring, he still says that he’ll wait for her to come around eventually.
*NeverSayDie: Averted: Frank is adamant that it bothers him exceedingly when someone uses a euphemism for death.
*ShoutOut: The film’s title comes from ‘‘Theater/RichardTheSecond’’.
*SpoiledBrat: Queenie to a T.
*TheStrawman: Sam is a communist through and through until he marries Vivian and settles down. Queenie remarks that all the life has been taken out of him when he no longer spouts his Bolshevik ideals.
*ParentalFavoritism: Frank accuses Ethel of this, stating that she prefers Vivian and Reggie over Queenie.
*ObnoxiousInLaws: Ethel’s mother is very exacting and annoying to everyone but especially to Sylvia.
*WhereDidWeGoWrong: When Queenie runs away, Ethel asks herself this over and over, wondering if they indulged their children too much.
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