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Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1970 | Peter
Best Supporting Actress | 1970 | Siân
1971 | Herbert
Best Foreign Actor Migliore Attore Straniero | 1970 | Peter
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1970 | Peter
Best Music Score of a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation | 1970 | Leslie
Best Actor | 1970 | Peter
Budget 9,000,000 USD
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.
When the character of Ursula gushes over Mr. Chips, asking Katherine to let her have him when she was done with him, there is some truth in the line. Ursula, played by Siân Phillips, was, in real life, Mrs. O'Toole.
Siân Phillips wrote in her memoir that her husband Peter O'Toole was so well made up as the elderly Mr. Chips, that she walked past him in the canteen without recognizing him.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor campaigned for female lead when Richard Burton was still in the running to play Mr. Chips.
Sherborne School, the filming location for most of the scenes set at Brookfield School, is an eminent British Public School. Amongst the school's former pupils is Alan Turing, who was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014), which also used the school as one of its filming locations. Other notable alumni of Sherborne School are writer John le Carré and actors Jeremy Irons and Hugh Bonneville.
"Katie: [looking at a carving] What does that mean? Chips: Gnothe seauthon. Know yourself. The watchword of Apollo. Katie: The god of prophecy? Chips: Among other things... [Later at the close of the scene] Katie: [contemplating the temple she has visited] Know yourself. That's quite a watchword. Gnothe seauthon. Chips: You're most retentive. Katie: Give me a good line and I can remember it."
"Katie: Sorry, am I going too fast for you? Chips: My dear young lady, I could easily go just as fast as you if I cared to risk a broken ankle and be carried back on a stretcher. It's extremely foolish to leap around in a ruined circus like a mountain goat. Especially in those shoes. These stones are treacherous."
