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Robert Donat: Private Life
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Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat), an elderly classics teacher looks back over his lengthy teaching tenure as his in his twilight years as he is readying for retirement. He remembers interactions with various pupils and colleagues – especially the challenges they presented him, which were just as tough as those he presented them. Most of all, he fondly remembers his wonderful married life with the vivacious and beautiful Katharine (Garson).
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Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene (Robert Donat) was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was ... an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Synopsis: Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen by Eric Ambler, the story is set in a small rural community, where William Thorn (Donat) serves as parson. Upon learning that he has only a year to live, Thorn begins to seeRead More
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Donat [C]ould have been one of the universal stars of cinema. Illness... corroded the later years of his comparatively brief life. It could not destroy his brilliant gifts but it shortened his career, and one might say, blunted it.
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