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Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 romantic drama film starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson and directed by Sam Wood.Based on the 1934 novella of the same name by James Hilton, the film is about Mr. Chipping, a beloved aged school teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school, who recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
The setting for Goodbye, Mr. Chips is probably based on The Leys School, Cambridge, where James Hilton was a pupil (1915–18).Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips: 1939: 1993: Turner Entertainment [296] [297] The Good Humor Man: 1950: 1992: Columbia Pictures (American Film Technologies) [298] Goopy Geer: 1932: 1992: Turner Entertainment [299] The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: 1947: 1990: Color Systems Technology [300] The Gospel According to St. Matthew: 1964: 2007: Legend Films [301] The Great ...
William Henry Balgarnie (12 May 1869 – 15 July 1951) was a schoolmaster at Elmfield College, Woodbridge School and The Leys School, and was the inspiration for the character Mr. Chips in the book Goodbye, Mr. Chips, written by one of his students at The Leys, James Hilton. [1]
James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was a British-American [1] novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest, as well as co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.
David Tree (born Ian David Parsons; 15 July 1915 – 4 November 2009) was an English stage and screen actor from a distinguished theatrical family whose career in the 1930s included roles in numerous stage presentations as well as in thirteen films produced between 1937 and 1941, among which were 1939's Goodbye Mr. Chips and two of producer Gabriel Pascal's adaptations of Shaw classics, 1938's ...
Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941.Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on Publishers Weekly list of best-selling novels for the year, [1] and it was published as an Armed Services Edition during WWII.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1934 novella by James Hilton. Goodbye, Mr. Chips may also refer to: Goodbye, Mr. Chips film starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson and directed by Sam Wood; Goodbye, Mr. Chips film starring Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark and directed by Herbert Ross