THE PICTURE OF THE GENERATION!
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
- 5.5
- 1933
- Released
- 1h 52m
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 JamesHarry 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)
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)
Released
en
$1,180,280.00
$7,630,000.00
- #london, england
- #world war i
- #black and white
- #pre-code
- #upstairs downstairs
- #1900s
- #wealthy family
Reviews
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