Robert Donat Articles

Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (top); Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips (middle); Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Love Affair (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' homage to the Best Picture Oscar nominees of 1939 continues this evening with three more entries: Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, Sam Wood's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Leo McCarey's Love Affair. If you haven't watched all three [...]

Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom) On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; Number 17 (1932), featuring the now-forgotten John Stuart and Anne Grey; [...]

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Juliet Mills, daughter of John Mills, who has a supporting role [...]

Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]