Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) on Netflix
In 1870, Charles Edward Chipping arrives at Brookfield school as a Latin teacher. Twenty years on, a holiday in Austria brings him Kathy Ellis, a suffragette who is cycling with a friend.
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In 1870, twenty-five-year-old Charles Edward Chipping arrives at Brookfield school to teach Latin. The boys greet him with practical jokes, and he answers with strict classroom discipline, which makes him disliked but respected. Twenty years on he is senior master, and he is disappointed when the school passes him over for a housemaster's post. The new German teacher, Max Staefel, invites him to share a walking holiday in his native Austria. While mountain-climbing, Chipping meets Kathy Ellis, an English suffragette on a cycling trip with a friend. In Vienna they meet again, and she talks him into dancing to the Blue Danube Waltz. Though she is much younger and livelier, she loves and marries him; the couple returns to England, where Kathy settles at the school and charms everyone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
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- According to David Lewis, Goodbye, Mr. Chips was developed by Irving Thalberg as a vehicle for Charles Laughton, with Lewis suggesting R.C. Sherriff write the script; after Thalberg died it was reassigned to Robert Donat.
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips was up against Gone with the Wind in all seven of its Academy Award categories. Robert Donat won Best Actor for playing Mr. Chipping, beating Laurence Olivier, Clark Gable and James Stewart, while the film lost five of the other six categories to Gone with the Wind.
- The fictional Brookfield School's exteriors were shot at Repton School in Derbyshire, but the interiors, including the supposedly outdoor shots of the Austrian Tyrol Mountains, were filmed at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire; around 300 Repton boys and faculty stayed on through the school holidays to appear.
