List of the best Celia Johnson movies: Brief Encounter(1945), A Kid for Two Farthings(1956), The Good Companions(1957), The Holly and the Ivy(1952), This Happy Breed(1944), In Which We Serve(1942), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969) ... ...
Romance, Drama
UK
1945
86 Minutes
Celia Johnson Trevor Howard Stanley Holloway Cyril Raymond Joyce Carey Everley Gregg Marjorie Mars Margaret Barton Dennis Harkin Valentine Dyall Nuna Davey
wife husband doctor friend somber mushy cafeteria train family home suburbia england infidelity marriage love forbidden love 1940s
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Fantasy
UK
1956
91 Minutes
Joanna
Celia Johnson Diana Dors David Kossoff Joe Robinson Jonathan Ashmore Brenda De Banzie Vera Day Primo Carnera Sydney Tafler Sidney James Daphne Anderson
son mother tailor goat charming touching spirited london childhood mother/child relationship poverty wishes animals growing up discovery underdog 1950s
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor ... See full summary »
Musical
UK
1957
104 Minutes
Eric Portman Celia Johnson Hugh Griffith Janette Scott John Fraser Bobby Howes Rachel Roberts John Salew Mona Washbourne Paddy Stone Irving Davies
singer spinster songwriter dancing girl love interest spirited lighthearted england wales west end backstage music hall show business musical revue theater companionship romance revitalization transformation growing up
A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a ... See full summary »
Other, Drama
1952
83 Minutes
Ralph Richardson Celia Johnson Margaret Leighton Denholm Elliott Hugh Williams Roland Culver
priest daughter son sister cousin alcoholic charming emotional touching england countryside house christmas family celebration family dysfunction discovery transformation growing up 1950s
A British vicar's (Ralph Richardson) Christmas with his family finally brings him closer to his son and daughters (Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton).
Drama
1944
115 Minutes
Ethel Gibbons
Robert Newton Celia Johnson John Mills Kay Walsh Stanley Holloway Amy Veness Alison Leggatt
travel agent wife mother-in-law sister-in-law socialist child cheeky melodramatic emotional england suburbia household working class war family growing up love transformation 1930s
An adaptation of Noel Coward's play traces a number of years in the life of a middle-class London family.
War, Drama
UK
1942
114 Minutes
Alix Kinross
Noel Coward Noel Coward John Mills Bernard Miles Celia Johnson Kay Walsh Joyce Carey Michael Wilding James Donald Richard Attenborough
captain military officer sailor wife mother heartwarming patriotic ship military base london egypt world war ii quest escape 1930s
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Drama
UK
1969
116 Minutes
Miss Mackay
Maggie Smith Pamela Franklin Robert Stephens Gordon Jackson Celia Johnson Diane Grayson Jane Carr Shirley Steedman Lavinia Lang Antoinette Biggerstaff Margo Cunningham
teacher headmistress student emotional charming passionate scotland school romance manipulation education love growing up discovery 1930s
An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.