Overview
Born : September 29, 1904 in London, England, UK
Died : April 6, 1996 in Dallas, Texas, USA (heart failure)
Birth Name : Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson
Nickname : Duchess
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was brought into the world on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a business assistant. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots plunge, Garson showed no early interest in turning into an entertainer. Taught at the University of London planning to turn into an educator, she selected rather to take some work at a promoting organization. During her off hours she showed up in neighborhood dramatic creations, acquiring a standing as an incredibly capable and charming entertainer. During a phase creation of "Old Music," Garson was offered a studio contract by MGM Vice President of Production Louis B. Mayer while he was on a visit to London searching for new ability. Garson's absolute first film under that game plan was the gigantically well known Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), acquiring her an Academy Award designation for Best Actress - the first of six she would get. The next year would see Greer in the exceptionally acclaimed Pride and Prejudice (1940) as "Elizabeth Bennet". 1941 saw her acquire a second selection for her job as Edna Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust (1941), yet it was the moving, if disseminator, Mrs. Miniver (1942), in a job that she would perpetually be known by, that really brought her the Oscar statuette as Best Actress.
As Marie Curie in Madame Curie (1943), she would draw one more designation, and similar the following year in Mrs. Parkington (1944). It started to appear to be that any film she was important for would be a programmed achievement. Sufficiently sure, in 1945, she won one more designation, for her job as "Mary Rafferty" in The Valley of Decision (1945). All things considered, Garson started to scrape at the solid stream of "honorable lady" jobs in which the studio was projecting her. MGM felt that they had a triumphant recipe and saw no great explanation to adjust it. Two standard seven-year contract augmentations kept her at MGM until 1954 when, by common assent, she left the main studio she had at any point known. In 1946, Greer showed up in Adventure (1945), which was a failure in the cinematic world. 1947's Desire Me (1947) was no less a calamity, descending winding at last captured with the hit The Forsyte Saga (1949). The following year, she repeated her job as "Kay Miniver" in The Miniver Story (1950), however crowds were obviously put off by her personality's less than ideal destruction from disease, leaving screen spouse Walter Pidgeon to warrior on alone.
For the rest of the 1950s, she persevered through a few typically neglected movies. Then, at that point, 1960 thought that she is projected in the job of Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960). This film was, maybe, her best work and handled her seventh and last Academy Award selection. Her last screen appearances were in The Singing Nun (1966) as "Mother Prioress" and The Happiest Millionaire (1967). After a couple of TV films, Garson resigned to the New Mexico farm she imparted to her significant other, tycoon Buddy E.E. Fogelson. She focused on the climate and other different causes. By the 1980s, she was experiencing ongoing heart issues, provoking her to dial back. That was the reason for her demise on April 6, 1996 in Dallas, Texas, at age 91.
Despite the fact that it is some of the time quibbled probably as a narrative piece of Oscar random data, she didn't "babble for more than 60 minutes" subsequent to accepting her 1943 Academy Award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). Her acknowledgment discourse was really just 5-1/2 minutes long. This actually makes it the longest acknowledgment discourse of all time.
Her mom's original surname was Greer, a withdrawal of the name MacGregor. She is a relative of Rob Roy MacGregor (he had red hair), of the Scottish family Gregor.
Had homes in Dallas, Los Angeles and farm close to Pecos, New Mexico.
Moved on from the University of London and learned at the University of Grenoble
Joined by MGM manager Louis B. Mayer after he saw her following up on a London stage. [1937]
Most popular for her part in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Notable for exercises for the benefit of instructive and social organizations.
Given millions to have the Greer Garson Theater worked, at the College of Santa Fe. She had three conditions that must be followed: 1) It must be a functioning round stage, 2) the principal play must be A Midsummer's Night Dream, and 3) it needed to have enormous women's bathrooms.
She wedded Richard Ney in the wake of recording Mrs. Miniver (1942), in which he played her child.
Gotten the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1990.
Designated for an Academy Award five years straight: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945. She holds the record for most successive assignments with Bette Davis.
Lana Turner recollected that in the MGM closet office, Garson's fitting life sized model had the biggest hips, "yet she is a tall lady."
Was a beneficiary of the renowned TACA/Neiman-Marcus Silver Cup Award for her commitments to human expressions in Dallas.
There is a Greer Garson Theater on the grounds of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Greer additionally gave a considerable lot of her papers and belongings toward the Southern Methodist University Jake and Nancy Hamon Library.
A fire at her home obliterated the first Oscar she had won for best entertainer in Mrs. Miniver (1942). The Academy of Motion Pictures later sent her a substitution.
While at MGM during the 1940s she said that she would jumped at the chance to have been projected in a bigger number of comedies rather than dramatizations, and was envious that those jobs were given to one more redhead who as of late endorsed with the studio, Lucille Ball. Incidentally, Ball was disappointed at being disregarded for sensational jobs.
Mentored by Laurence Olivier during her theater days in London.
In the MGM top pick staggering Ziegfeld Follies (1945), there is a play named "The Great Lady Gives an Interview" composed by Roger Edens and Kay Thompson. It was initially intended to be performed by Garson as a farce of her picture in shows like Madame Curie (1943). She wouldn't do it because of dissatisfaction from her mom Nina Garson, and Judy Garland did a humorous pantomime of her as "Madame Crematon, the innovator of the self clasping pin".
Supplanted Rosalind Russell in the Broadway variant of Auntie Mame in 1958.
In 1952, she acknowledged the Oscar for best entertainer in a main job for Vivien Leigh, who was absent at the honors service.
In 1962, she acknowledged the Oscar for best entertainer in a main job for the benefit of Sophia Loren, who was absent at the honors function.
Memoir in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 225-227. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Girl of Nina Garson.
In the 1982, she turned down Aaron Spelling's proposal of a section in the hit cleanser Dynasty (1981), playing mother to Joan Collins' Alexis.
Was an enlisted Republican and momentarily thought to be running for Congress as a Republican in 1966. In spite of this, she supposedly upheld RFK's office in 1968, alongside Rosey Roosevelt Grier.
Greer had one stage youngster, Gayle Fogelson (1934-2017), who was taken on by her better half Buddy E.E. Fogelson after his sister's demise.
She really loved the film Top Gun (1986).
During the shooting of Blossoms in the Dust (1941) she informed fan magazines that she intended to take on two infants in the event that she didn't wed soon in light of the fact that each home in America ought not be without kids. She didn't do her assertion despite the fact that she wedded two times subsequent to pronouncing her desire to embrace.
Her first marriage went on for the span of her wedding trip. On her special first night in Germany (Harz Mountains) she was basically held prisoner by her possessive spouse and on her re-visitation of England she moved in with her mom and her significant other moved to India.
In 1938 she experienced lack of healthy sustenance setting out on an accident diet to accomplish the standard Hollywood slimline figure.
In Italy, practically the entirety of her movies were named by Tina Lattanzi, with the exception of When Ladies Meet (1941) and The Happiest Millionaire (1967) where she was named separately by Giovanna Scotto and Rosetta Calavetta.
Was in thought for the piece of Susan Trexell in Susan and God (1940), yet Joan Crawford was projected all things being equal.
First cousin two times eliminated of Jamie Dornan.
Played the spouse of Walter Pidgeon a sum of multiple times; in Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Julia Misbehaves (1948), The Miniver Story (1950), Scandal at Scourie (1953) and The Forsyte Saga (1949).
She was respected as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for March 2013.
Was a naturalized resident of the United States.
Was the twentieth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Mrs. Miniver (1942) at The fifteenth Academy Awards on March 4, 1943.
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for a film that additionally won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Mrs. Miniver (1942)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).
Was the third English entertainer to win the Academy Award for Best Actress however the first to have been brought into the world in England (Vivien Leigh having been brought into the world in India and Joan Fontaine in Japan).
She was granted the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Honors List for her administrations to show and amusement.
Featured in six Oscar Best Picture candidates: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943) and Julius Caesar (1953). Mrs. Miniver is the main champ. She was named for Best Actress for her exhibitions in these aside from Random Harvest and Julius Caesar.
A dedication administration was held for her at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden on fourth July 1996.
List of Greer Garson Movies
- The Love Boat (TV Series)
- Little Women (TV Mini Series)
- The Little Drummer Boy Book II (TV Movie)
- Crown Matrimonial (TV Movie)
- The Virginian (TV Series)
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series)
- The Little Drummer Boy (TV Movie)
- The Happiest Millionaire
- The Singing Nun
- Invincible Mr. Disraeli (TV Movie)
- The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series)
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion (TV Movie)
- General Electric Theater (TV Series)
- Father Knows Best (TV Series)
- Telephone Time (TV Series)
- The Little Foxes (TV Movie)
- Star Stage (TV Series)
- Strange Lady in Town
- Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
- Her Twelve Men
- Scandal at Scourie
- Julius Caesar
- The Law and the Lady
- The Miniver Story
- The Forsyte Saga
- Julia Misbehaves
- Desire Me
- Adventure
- The Valley of Decision
- Mrs. Parkington
- Madame Curie
- The Youngest Profession
- Random Harvest
- Mrs. Miniver
- When Ladies Meet
- Blossoms in the Dust
- Pride and Prejudice
- Remember?
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- How He Lied to Her Husband (TV Movie)
- Theatre Parade (TV Series)
- The School for Scandal (TV Movie)
- Inasmuch... (Short)
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