The life of an Oscar winner who grew up in Manchester was remembered in a special ceremony led by his son. Star of stage and screen Robert Donat, who was named Best Actor at the 1939 Academy Awards ...

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1939): One of the only major Oscars that Gone With the Wind didn’t bag was Best Actor. As iconic as Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler was, he lost the prize to the great Robert Donat for ...

“Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” the latest English import from “Masterpiece Theater,” is the fourth film version (including one musical) of the 1933 novelette -- or, as it is attractively described in the ...