Goodbye, Mr. Chips
This musical version of James Hilton's novel concerns shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher Arthur Chipping, who falls for flashy showgirl Katherine Bridges while teaching at Brookfield Boys' School outside London in the 1920's.
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"From the post war period until the bitter end, MGM was remaking some of its greatest dramatic and comedic films into musicals, and some of them worked and some of them didn't. This was one of the ones that falls in between. By the late 1960's the studio was experiencing great upheaval, both managerially and financially, and the quality of a majority of their films during this time suffered, not coming close to MGM's heyday which lasted from its inception in 1924 until about 1946. This 1969 version takes a small picture with great charm and heart and makes a big picture with muc..."
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Originally cast in the lead roles were Sir Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar, who were replaced by Richard Burton and Lee Remick. When MGM opted to replace Remick with Petula Clark, based on her reviews and Golden Globe nomination for Finian's Rainbow (1968), Burton balked at playing opposite a "singer" rather than an "actress", so Peter O'Toole was cast instead.
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This musical version of James Hilton's novel concerns shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher Arthur Chipping, who falls for flashy showgirl Katherine Bridges while teaching at Brookfield Boys' School outside London in the 1920's.