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