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.
Diana Wynyard
Clive Brook
Una O'Connor
Herbert Mundin
Beryl Mercer
Irene Browne
Tempe Pigott
Merle Tottenham
Frank Lawton
Ursula Jeans
Margaret Lindsay
John Warburton
Billy Bevan
Dickie Henderson
Douglas Scott
Bonita Granville
Betty Grable
Desmond Roberts
Harry Allen
Frank Atkinson
Lionel Belmore
Ted Billings
Adele Crane
Nancy Crowley
Howard Davies
Kay Deslys
Mary Forbes
Betty Grable
Dannie Mac Grant
Lawrence Grant
Stuart Hall
Winter Hall
Brandon Hurst
Claude King
Bruce Line
Eric Mayne
Wilfrid North
Helen Parrish
Robert Parrish
Richard Quine
Tom Ricketts
John Rogers
Ann Shaw
C. Montague Shaw
Yorke Sherwood
Pat Somerset
Will Stanton
Mary Stewart
Gelal Talata
David Torrence
Douglas Walton
Marguerite Warner
Eric Wilton
Stuart Hall
Patrick MacGill