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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.
A draft of a musical adaptation of Goodbye, Mr. Chips was on file in the MGM script department as early as 1951. [2] In 1964, trade magazine advertisements announced that Julie Andrews, fresh from her success in Mary Poppins, was to star in a Mr. Chips musical opposite Rex Harrison, with Vincente Minnelli as director, but nothing came of the project.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
W. H. Balgarnie, inspiration for Mr Chipping, in James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the three movie adaptations (1939, 1969, 2002) of the novella; Sylvia Barrett, new teacher at a New York City high school, portrayed by Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase (1967).
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