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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.
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 ...
Terence E. Kilburn [1] (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor.Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.
The Goodbye Girl (1977) Goodbye Lover (1999) Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) Goodbye Youth: (1918, 1927 & 1940) Goodbye, Columbus (1969) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Goodbye, Mr. Chips: (1939 & 1969) Goodfellas (1990) Goodnight Mister Tom (1998 TV) Goodnight Mommy (2014) The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) A Goofy Movie ...
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 ...