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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.
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.
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.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 British-American musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terence Rattigan is based on James Hilton 's 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips , which was first adapted for the screen in 1939 .
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 ...
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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.
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