该电影由大卫·里恩执导，罗伯特·牛顿、西莉亚·约翰逊、埃米·维内斯、约翰·米尔斯、凯·沃尔什等主演，于1944年上映。在113分钟的叙事中，《天伦之乐》（又名：快乐天地(台)、快乐家庭、Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed）Noel Coward’s attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.