Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film) categories; Robert Donat won for Best Actor, beating Laurence Olivier, Clark Gable and James Stewart, though "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" lost to "Gone With the Wind" in five of the six remaining categories, while "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" won Best Original Story. (Best Sound went to "When Tomorrow Comes".) "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" was remade as a musical in 1969, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. Streaming audio Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film) Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 British romantic drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson. Based on the 1934 novella "Goodbye, Mr.
Clark Gable seeing the rough cuts, agreed. Portraitist Al Hirschfeld created a drawing, and then a lithograph, portraying the film's stars Clift, Monroe, and Gable with screenwriter Miller, in what is suggested as a typical "on-the-set" scene during the troubled production. Throughout his life, Gable was fond of the work of artist Reinhold Palenske, and they were close friends. Gable was a conservative Republican, though he never publicly spoke about politics. His third wife, Carole Lombard, was an activist liberal Democrat, and she cajoled him into supporting Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1944, he became an early