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Hoyts Merri Theatre 378-390 St Georges Road, Melbourne, VIC - 1944

The Merri Theatre was opened on 5th February 1926. By 1946 it was operated by Hoyts Theatres. They closed it on 20th June 1959 and it has since been demolished.

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This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills.

The screenplay by Lean (who also made his screenwriting debut), Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame is based on the 1939 play This Happy Breed, by Noël Coward.

It tells the story of an inter-war suburban London family, set against the backdrop of what were then recent news events, moving from the postwar era of the 1920s to the inevitability of another war, and the passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Domestic triumphs and tragedies play against such transformative changes as the coming of household radio and talking pictures. The film was not released in the United States until April 1947.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -