Word: celia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Happy Breed. Noel Coward's loving tribute to an English family, with fine performances by Celia Johnson, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh (TIME, April...
This Happy Breed. Noel Coward's loving tribute to an English family, with fine performances by Celia Johnson, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh (TIME, April...
...plot is simple. It shows the family life of Frank Gibbons (Robert Newton), his wife Ethel (Celia Johnson) and their three children. Vi (Eileen Erskine), a docile creature, gives little trouble. She marries a young pinko, but quickly domesticates him. Reg (John Blythe), a charming, rather irresponsible boy, messes about on the left side of the general strike but marries and turns out well in the end. Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers...
...Coward nearly always writes with much purer feeling about unsophisticated women, and Celia Johnson and Kay Walsh make the most of some beautiful opportunities. Miss Johnson has a subtly balanced melancholic power, and an ability to convey complex emotions simply, which derive from the great days of the stage, and are almost never seen in a film. And the excellent director, David Lean (In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter), has again rendered Mr. Coward as rich a service as Mr. Coward has rendered...
Augmenting fine photography, Coward uses the technique of the dream, using the same scene in the beginning objective, and seen in the end through the thoughts of Celia Johnson, finally weakened by her tragedy. The music, consisting only of Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto, is apt to become tiring after an hour of repetition...