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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
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28 July 1939 (USA) moreTagline:
At The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! morePlot:
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Oscar Nominees To Number 10 Next Year (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 25 June 2009, 1:12 PM, PDT)
Film Believed To Have Been Lost Is Found in Netherlands
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 April 2004)
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triumph for MGM British moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Robert Donat | ... | Mr. Chips | |
| Greer Garson | ... | Katherine | |
| Terry Kilburn | ... | John Colley / Peter Colley I / Peter Colley II / Peter Colley III | |
| John Mills | ... | Peter Colley as a young man | |
| Paul Henreid | ... | Staefel (as Paul Von Hernried) | |
| Judith Furse | ... | Flora | |
| Lyn Harding | ... | Wetherby | |
| Milton Rosmer | ... | Chatteris | |
| Frederick Leister | ... | Marsham | |
| Louise Hampton | ... | Mrs. Wickett | |
| Austin Trevor | ... | Ralston | |
| David Tree | ... | Jackson | |
| Edmund Breon | ... | Colonel Morgan (as Edmond Breon) | |
| Jill Furse | ... | Helen Colley | |
| Scott Sunderland | ... | Sir John Colley |
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114 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #5086) | Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Sweden:Btl | Australia:G | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al.Fun Stuff
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Mr. Chips was modeled on W.H. Balgarnie, James Hilton's old classics master who taught for over 50 years at The Leys public school in Cambridge. moreQuotes:
[dying words]Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys.
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The third in the series of films MGM made in Britain was perhaps their greatest triumph, with a well-deserved Academy Award for Robert Donat, who played Mr Chips over a span of 60 years very convincingly. Always a great actor, Donat was perhaps at his best in this story covering the history of a schoolmaster from his first appearance at the school as a young idealist, through crusty middle age (and a change when he meets charming Greer Garson, in her first screen appearance, stranded up an Austrian mountain) and into his much loved dotage as a kind of human fixture and fittings of Brookfield School.
James Hilton's book is developed here to give not only a view of the English public school system which probably never existed, but to cover issues such as the Great War with some power. The film is extremely touching in places - whether this is because of the acting or the excellent music I'm not quite sure. I do know that this version of the film is streets ahead of the misguided musical version which appeared three decades later with Peter O'Toole in the lead.