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* UncreditedRole: Creator/CliveDunn as a youth.

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* ActingForTwo: Terry Kilburn plays many different boys of different generations at the school.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Terry Kilburn plays many different boys of different generations at the school.

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* UncreditedRole: Creator/NicholasFrankau as a tardy student.



** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer, Creator/PaulScofield and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.

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** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer, Creator/PaulScofield Creator/PaulScofield, and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.
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* RealLifeRelative: Creator/PeterOToole stars opposite his then-wife Sian Philips.

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* RealLifeRelative: Creator/PeterOToole stars opposite his then-wife Sian Philips.Creator/SianPhillips.
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* FakeNationality: If you want to get technical, Paul Henreid was Austrian playing a German character.

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* FakeNationality: If you want to get technical, Paul Henreid was an Austrian playing a German character.
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* AFIS100Years100Movies:
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** Mr. Chips: #41 Hero
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** Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/SamanthaEggar and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.

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** Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/SamanthaEggar Creator/SamanthaEggar, Creator/LeeRemick and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: Greer Garson was nominated in the Best Actress category with only twenty-five minutes of screen time. It's one of the shortest performances ever to be nominated for the award.

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* AwardCategoryFraud: Greer Garson Creator/GreerGarson was nominated in the Best Actress category with only twenty-five minutes of screen time. It's one of the shortest performances ever to be nominated for the award.



* StarMakingRole: Greer Garson was unknown in Hollywood at the time, and was propelled to stardom.

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* StarMakingRole: Greer Garson Creator/GreerGarson was unknown in Hollywood at the time, and was propelled to stardom.




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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CharlesLaughton was almost cast as Mr. Chips.
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** Creator/JulieAndrews and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.

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** Creator/JulieAndrews Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/SamanthaEggar and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.
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** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.

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** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer Creator/ChristopherPlummer, Creator/PaulScofield and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.
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* AwardsCategoryFraud: Greer Garson was nominated in the Best Actress category with only twenty-five minutes of screen time. It's one of the shortest performances ever to be nominated for the award.

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* AwardsCategoryFraud: AwardCategoryFraud: Greer Garson was nominated in the Best Actress category with only twenty-five minutes of screen time. It's one of the shortest performances ever to be nominated for the award.
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* AwardsCategoryFraud: Greer Garson was nominated in the Best Actress category with only twenty-five minutes of screen time. It's one of the shortest performances ever to be nominated for the award.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Scenes in Austria were filmed in Buckinghamshire.
* FakeNationality: If you want to get technical, Paul Henreid was Austrian playing a German character.


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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Terry Kilburn plays many different boys of different generations at the school.
* StarMakingRole: Greer Garson was unknown in Hollywood at the time, and was propelled to stardom.
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* UnderageCasting: Although Mr. Chips is approximately 25 years older than his wife Katherine, Creator/RobertDonat was almost five months younger than Creator/GreerGarson.


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* UnderageCasting: Although Mr. Chips is approximately 25 years older than his wife Katherine, Creator/RobertDonat was almost five months younger than Creator/GreerGarson.

Creator/GreerGarson. This is because Donat had to look convincingly young in the film's earliest scenes, which are set when he was Katherine's age.
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** Creator/VinenteMinelli was approached to direct.

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** Creator/VinenteMinelli Creator/VincenteMinnelli was approached to direct.
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!!The novel
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Mr. Chips was modelled on W.H. Balgarnie, source book author James Hilton's old classics master who taught for over fifty years at The Leys public school in Cambridge.

!!1939 film
* AFIS100Years100Movies:
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** Mr. Chips: #41 Hero
* InMemoriam: The film was dedicated to Irving G. Thalberg.
* UnderageCasting: Although Mr. Chips is approximately 25 years older than his wife Katherine, Creator/RobertDonat was almost five months younger than Creator/GreerGarson.


!!1969 film
* CutSong: Music/LeslieBricusse composed several songs for the film which were unused, including one titled "The Perfect Man", which only appears briefly and barely audible during Katherine's Party. Some of these unused songs were later reinstated in the 1982 stage musical version.
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/PeterOToole stars opposite his then-wife Sian Philips.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.
** Creator/JulieAndrews and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.
** "When I Am Older" was originally intended to feature a split-screen sequence in the middle, but this idea was ultimately scrapped.
** Creator/VinenteMinelli was approached to direct.
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