Status
Released
original language
English
Budget
$ 1180280
Revenue
$ 7630000
Top Billed Cast
Diana Wynyard
Jane Marryot
Clive Brook
Robert Marryot
Una O'Connor
Ellen Bridges
Herbert Mundin
Alfred Bridges
Beryl Mercer
Cook
Irene Browne
Margaret Harris
Tempe Pigott
Mrs. Snapper
Merle Tottenham
Annie
Frank Lawton
Joe Marryot
Ursula Jeans
Fanny Bridges
Margaret Lindsay
Edith Harris
John Warburton
Edward Marryot
Billy Bevan
George Grainger
Dickie Henderson
Master Edwards
Douglas Scott
Master Joey
Bonita Granville
Young Fanny
Betty Grable
Girl on Couch
Desmond Roberts
Ronnie James
Harry Allen
Busker (uncredited)
Frank Atkinson
Uncle Dick (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
Uncle George (uncredited)
Ted Billings
Newspaper Peddler (uncredited)
Adele Crane
Ada (uncredited)
Nancy Crowley
Little Girl (uncredited)
Howard Davies
Agitator (uncredited)
Kay Deslys
Barmaid (uncredited)
Mary Forbes
Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
Betty Grable
Blonde Girl on Couch (uncredited)
Dannie Mac Grant
Boy (uncredited)
Lawrence Grant
Man at Microphone (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
Lieutenant Edgar (uncredited)
Winter Hall
Minister on the Pulpit (uncredited)
Brandon Hurst
Gilbert & Sullivan Actor (uncredited)
Claude King
Speaker (uncredited)
Bruce Line
Boy Scout (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Doctor on Street (uncredited)
Wilfrid North
Man Talking to Colonel (uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Screaming Girl (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Boy Scout (uncredited)
Richard Quine
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
Waiter (uncredited)
John Rogers
Busker (uncredited)
Ann Shaw
Mirabelle (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw
Major Domo (uncredited)
Yorke Sherwood
Cabby (uncredited)
Pat Somerset
Ringsider (uncredited)
Will Stanton
Tommy Jolly (uncredited)
Mary Stewart
Dancer/Singer (uncredited)
Gelal Talata
Recruiting Girl Singer (uncredited)
David Torrence
Man at Disarmament Conference (uncredited)
Douglas Walton
Soldier Friend of Joe (uncredited)
Marguerite Warner
Recruiting Girl Singer (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Robert the Butler (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
Lieutenant Edgar (uncredited)
Patrick MacGill
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A review by Geronimo1967
Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-06-13
Noël Coward is at his most unashamedly jingoistic with this triple-Oscar winning depiction of the lives and loves, trials and tribulations of the well-to-do "Marryot" family - "Jane" (Diana Wynyard) and husband "Robert" (Clive Brook) and of the working class "Bridges" - Herbert Mundin ("Fred") and Una O'Connor ("Ellen") and their respective children. This episodically styled melodrama, for that is largely what it is, straddles the periods of British history from the late 1800s, through the fairly seismic death of Queen Victoria, the ensuing gentile Edwardian era until the clouds of war gather in the early 1910s testing everyone's mettle and finally to the aftermath of the Great War. It proves to be quite an interesting observation of deference and class, of aspiration and resentment - and both O'Connor and Wynyard play their parts well. The rest of it is a bit lacklustre, though - it seems little better than a sentimentally written chronology, bedecked with union jacks and rousing Chopin and Strauss to paper over any attempts to look seriously at the pretty profound social changes occurring in Britain, and elsewhere in Europe over this time period. That it beat Cukor's "Lady for a Day" for the trophy in 1934 has always surprised me - but at least it gave Una O'Connor a chance to stop playing the maid!