Greer Garson
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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British and American actress. Very popular during World War II, she was listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. Known for playing dignified and graceful women, Garson established herself as among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and Britain and received seven Academy Award nominations, winning one for Mrs. Miniver (1942), which was also the highest grossing film of that year. Originally a stage actress in England, she signed a contract with MGM and moved to Hollywood in 1937. She achieved success immediately for her debut film Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Following the romantic comedy Remember? (1939) and the period drama Pride and Prejudice (1940), Garson starred in a string of commercial and critical successes that earned her a record five consecutive Academy Award nominations for Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Mrs. Parkington (1944), and The Valley of Decision (1945). With her popularity slowly dwindling in the 1950s as her contract with MGM expired, she moved to Broadway. She received her seventh and final Academy Award nomination for the biographical film Sunrise at Campobello (1960).
Known for
Credits
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Calpurnia
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
as Elizabeth Bennet
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Mrs. Miniver
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Cordelia Biddle
The Valley of Decision (1945)
as Mary Rafferty
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
as Katherine 'Kathy'
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Desire Me (1947)
as Marise Aubert
Madame Curie (1943)
as Marie Curie
Random Harvest (1942)
as Paula
Crown Matrimonial (1974)
as Queen Mary
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
as Edna Gladney
Directed by William Wyler (1986)
as Self
The Singing Nun (1966)
as Mother Prioress
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
as Narrator (voice)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Pepe (1960)
as Greer Garson
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as Irene Forsyte
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
as Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Susie Parkington
The Youngest Profession (1943)
as Greer Garson
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
as Julia Packett
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
as (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Miniver Story (1950)
as Kay Miniver
When Ladies Meet (1941)
as Mrs. Claire Woodruff
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
as Jan Stewart
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
as Eleanor Roosevelt
The Law and the Lady (1951)
as Jane Hoskins
Adventure (1945)
as Emily Sears
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
as Victoria McChesney
Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Actor
Inasmuch... (1934)
as St. Clara
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963)
as Mary Anne Disraeli
Remember? (1939)
as Linda Bronson
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Lady Cicely Waynflete
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II (1976)
as Narrator (voice)
The Little Foxes (1956)
as Regina Giddens
How He Lied to Her Husband (1937)
as Aurora Bompas
The Awful Truth (1956)
as Linda Warner
The School for Scandal (1937)
as Maria