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
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Mrs. Miniver
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Crown Matrimonial (1974)
as Queen Mary
Desire Me (1947)
as Marise Aubert
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Calpurnia
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
as Elizabeth Bennet
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Cordelia Biddle
The Awful Truth (1956)
as Linda Warner
Directed by William Wyler (1986)
as Self
The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
as Narrator (voice)
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
as Edna Gladney
Random Harvest (1942)
as Paula
When Ladies Meet (1941)
as Mrs. Claire Woodruff
Pepe (1960)
as Greer Garson
Madame Curie (1943)
as Marie Curie
The Valley of Decision (1945)
as Mary Rafferty
The Youngest Profession (1943)
as Greer Garson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
as Katherine 'Kathy'
Her Twelve Men (1954)
as Jan Stewart
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
The Law and the Lady (1951)
as Jane Hoskins
Adventure (1945)
as Emily Sears
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Susie Parkington
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
The Singing Nun (1966)
as Mother Prioress
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as Irene Forsyte
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Inasmuch... (1934)
as St. Clara
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
as Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
as (archive footage)
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
as Victoria McChesney
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
as Julia Packett
Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How He Lied to Her Husband (1937)
as Aurora Bompas
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II (1976)
as Narrator (voice)
The Miniver Story (1950)
as Kay Miniver
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Remember? (1939)
as Linda Bronson
Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Actor
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Lady Cicely Waynflete
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963)
as Mary Anne Disraeli
The School for Scandal (1937)
as Maria
The Little Foxes (1956)
as Regina Giddens