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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.
Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈ d oʊ n æ t / DOH-nat; 18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) [1] was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for ...
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.
Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Pride of the Yankees, and For Whom the Bell Tolls and for his uncredited work directing parts of Gone with the Wind.
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: 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 ...
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.