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Greer Garson: Walter Pidgeon
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Synopsis: Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences which rival daytime drama for unrelenting misery and melodrama, Edna marries flour-mill owner Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). They have a baby, who dies shortly after EdnaRead More
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After suffering through a discouraging first year in Hollywood, Garson returned to England to film the small role of Mrs. Chips in MGM's Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). Her portrayal of the beloved schoolteacher's charming wife endeared her to the American public and set her career in motion. It was the first in a series of roles in which Garson would play women of great loyalty, refinement, and wifely or motherly strength. Garson's other significant films of the period include Pride and Prejudice (1940), Blossoms in the Dust (1941, the first time she was teamed with her frequent costar Walter Pidgeon), Random Harvest (1942), and Madame Curie (1943), but the film that cemented her reputation and image was Mrs. Miniver (1942). Filmed during World War II and tailor-made for the times, Mrs. Miniver extolled the strength and spirit of the British home front and was one of the year's biggest hits. Garson's grace-under-pressure portrayal of a courageous wife and mother, the personification of British fortitude, not only won her an Academy Award but was credited with bolstering American support for the war.
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An Oscar-winning actress known for portraying strong women with warmth and poise, Garson made her screen debut in Louis B. Mayer's Good-bye, Mr. Chips (1939) opposite Robert Donat. Nominated seven times for her performances, she won an Oscar for her role in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Her other films include Pride and Prejudice (1940), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943), and Mrs. Parkington (1944), often working with Walter Pidgeon. She moved on to Broadway, replacing Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame, then went back to films in Sunrise at Campobello (1960) as Eleanor Roosevelt. In her later years, she made several television appearances, produced a few plays, and engaged in philanthropic endeavors with her wealthy husband, oil magnate Buddy Fogelson.
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Garson became MGM's resident aristocrat, appearing most often as co-star of fellow contractee Walter Pidgeon. It was with Pidgeon that she appeared in Mrs. Miniver (1942), a profitable wartime morale-booster which won Oscars for Garson, for supporting actress Teresa Wright, and for the picture itself. Legend has it that Garson's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ceremony rambled on for 45 minutes; in fact, it wasn't any more than five or six minutes, but the speech compelled the Academy to limit the time any actor could spend in accepting the award. Though not overly fond of being so insufferably ladylike in her films, Garson stayed at MGM until her contract expired in 1954; it was surprising but at the same time refreshing to see her let her hair down in the 1956 Western Strange Lady in Town. In 1960, Garson received her seventh Oscar nomination for her astonishingly accurate portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. After that, Garson was given precious few opportunities to shine in films, though she was permitted to exhibit her still-vibrant singing voice in her last picture, 1967's The Happiest Millionaire.
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During the remainder of the war years Greer made another movie with Walter Pidgeon ("Mrs. Parkington") for which she received yet another Oscar® nomination. And then the very next year she received her sixth nomination for "The Valley of Decision" with Gregory Peck.
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Synopsis: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon were together again for the last time in Scandal at Scourie. Filmed on location in Canada, the plot concerns a childless Protestant couple, the McChesneys (Garson and Pidgeon), whose lives are profoundly altered by an orphaned Catholic girl named Patsy (Donna CorcoranRead More
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