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.
Gable and Lombard plane crash while promoting the purchase of defense bonds during World War II. In his review in "The New York Times", Vincent Canby called the film Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" described the film as a "mushy, old-fashioned extravaganza" and added, "Variety" called it "Time Out London" says, "TV Guide" awarded it one out of a possible four stars, calling it Gable and Lombard Gable and Lombard is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.