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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 .
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 (novelist) (1900–1954), English novelist Jimmy Hilton (1883–1943), English rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s James L. Hilton (born 1957), astronomer
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The Silver Flame is a 1928 novel by the British writer James Hilton. [1] The original British publisher was Butterworth. In 1949 it was published in the United States in by Avon under the alternative title Three Loves Had Margaret. [2] It has been described as the last of his "apprentice novels" before he emerged as a major international author ...
They are widely known for the Hilton Hotels & Resorts Group which was established by Conrad Hilton in 1919 [1] when he bought his first hotel. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Hilton family is one of the world's most powerful and famous families and are worth over $14.2 billion dollars.
Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Rothschild (née Hilton; born October 5, 1983) [1] [2] is an American socialite, fashion designer and model. She is a member of the Hilton family by birth, and a member of the Rothschild family through her marriage to James Rothschild, a grandson of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild , in 2015.
Hilton is the daughter of Kathleen Mary (née Dugan) and Larry Avanzino. Her father's family comes from Italian ancestry while her mother's side comes from Ireland. [7] Hilton's parents later divorced, and her mother married Kenneth E. Richards (1917–1998), who already had three grown children from a previous marriage.