Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Errol Flynn
as Soames Forsyte
Greer Garson
as Irene Forsyte
Walter Pidgeon
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
Robert Young
as Philip Bosinney
Janet Leigh
as June Forsyte
Harry Davenport
as Old Jolyon Forsyte
Aubrey Mather
as James Forsyte
Gerald Oliver Smith
as Wilson
Lumsden Hare
as Roger Forsyte
Halliwell Hobbes
as Nicholas Forsyte
Matt Moore
as Timothy Forsyte
Florence Auer
as Ann Forsyte Heyman