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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British woman, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Captain Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who
). His boxing film, "The Harder They Fall" (1956), was based on Budd Schulberg's novel.
"The Little Hut" (1957), for MGM was a huge hit. Even bigger was "Peyton Place" (1957), for 20th Century Fox. Robson was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. He was nominated again the following year for directing Ingrid Bergman in "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness". For these films he also received his third and fourth Directors Guild