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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.
Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈ d oʊ n æ t / DOH-nat; 18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor. [1] He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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.
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
In 2002, Clunes played serial killer John George Haigh in a Yorkshire TV production A Is for Acid, and took the lead in ITV's production of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. [4] Clunes was one of the eponymous leads in the 2004 ITV comedy-drama William and Mary, with Julie Graham. Clunes had worked with Julie Graham previously on Dirty Tricks (2000). [18]
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.
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 ...
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...