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Goodbye, Mr. Chips Overview:

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Sam Wood and Sidney Franklin (uncredited) and produced by Victor Saville.

The film was based on the novel Goodbye Mr. Chips and also The Atlantic Magazine Short Story written by James Hilton published in 1934 (novel); April 1934 (magazine).

SYNOPSIS

Book Summary of 1969 remake: Musical remake of the 1939 film about a proper British schoolmaster (O'Toole) who falls in love with a music-hall girl (pop star Petula Clark in a rare film role). Director Ross's debut. Based on James Hilton's 1934 novel.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1939 --- Ceremony Number 12 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActorRobert DonatWon
Best ActressGreer GarsonNominated
Best DirectorSam WoodNominated
Best Film EditingCharles FrendNominated
Best PictureMetro-Goldwyn-MayerNominated
Best WritingR. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric MaschwitzNominated
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips Quotes:

Katherine: I'm sorry, I wasn't in any danger.
[on his first day at Brookfield School, Mr. Chipping is attempting to bring his unruly class under his control]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': Silence! Silence! I'll have no more of it!
John Colley: No more silence, sir?
[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.
Katherine: It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips Facts
The first film of Judith Furse.
34-year-old Robert Donat ages 63 years (1870-1933) over the course of the film. He remarked: "As soon as I put the mustache on, I felt the part, even if I did look like a great Airedale come out of a puddle."
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.
Greer Garson was initially offered a contract for MGM in 1937, but refused all the minor parts she was offered until she got the role of Kathy Ellis in this film.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 26, 1941 with Greer Garson reprising her film role.
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