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1	!!The novel
2	* 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.
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4	!!1939 film
5	* ActingForTwo: Terry Kilburn plays many different boys of different generations at the school.
6	* AwardCategoryFraud: 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.
7	* CaliforniaDoubling: Scenes in Austria were filmed in Buckinghamshire.
8	* FakeNationality: If you want to get technical, Paul Henreid was an Austrian playing a German character.
9	* InMemoriam: The film was dedicated to Irving G. Thalberg.
10	* StarMakingRole: Creator/GreerGarson was unknown in Hollywood at the time, and was propelled to stardom.
11	* UncreditedRole: Creator/CliveDunn as a youth.
12	* UnderageCasting: Although Mr. Chips is approximately 25 years older than his wife Katherine, Creator/RobertDonat was almost five months younger than 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.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CharlesLaughton was almost cast as Mr. Chips.
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15	!!1969 film
16	* 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.
17	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/PeterOToole stars opposite his then-wife Creator/SianPhillips.
18	* UncreditedRole: Creator/NicholasFrankau as a tardy student.
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/ChristopherPlummer, Creator/PaulScofield, and Creator/PeterSellers were considered for Mr. Chips.
21	** Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/SamanthaEggar, Creator/LeeRemick and Creator/ElizabethTaylor were considered for Katherine Bridges.
22	** "When I Am Older" was originally intended to feature a split-screen sequence in the middle, but this idea was ultimately scrapped.
23	** Creator/VincenteMinnelli was approached to direct.

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