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Walter Pidgeon
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Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are at their best in this fine biography of a couple of great scientists. The true dedication of their lives despite the perils of ill circumstances was very inspiring and something from which modern movie makers could learn a lesson.
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison to "get" Pidgeon at the first opportunity. The DA has several enemies on the outside as well, one of whom frames him on a bribery charge. Pidgeon is sentenced to the prison where he has sent so many miscreants in the past. Dodging attempts on his own life, Pidgeon makes several valuable convict friends and manages to clear himself during a climactic jailbreak. 6,000 Enemies runs only 61 minutes--an average of about 100 enemies per minute. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the third time in this fact-based biography directed by Mervyn Leroy, based on Eve Curie's book about her mother. In turn-of- the-century Paris, poor Polish student Marie (Greer Garson) gets a chance to study magnetism with kindly professor Jean Perot (Albert Basserman). Perot ... arranges for the shy scientist Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon) to share the lab with Marie. As they work together, Pierre and Marie fall in love. Pierre eventually musters up the courage to ask her to marry him, and she accepts. After their honeymoon, Marie becomes obsessed with a piece of pitchblende that has been displaying some peculiar properties.
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Walter Pidgeon was born September 23, 1897 in the city of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The New Brunswick schools paid attention to his his splendid singing voice and that inspired a glimmer for the stage. He went to the University of New Brunswick to study law and dramatics classes there affirmed his theatrical ambitions.
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Walter Pidgeon was born in New Brunswick Canada in 1897. His most significant SF roles were as Dr. Edward Morbius in Forbidden Planet and as Admiral Harriman Nelson in Voyage to the Bottom Of the Sea. Walter died of a stroke in 1984
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A movie that showed the devastating effects of war, Mrs. Miniver, was nominated for twelve Oscars including Best Actor for Walter Pidgeon’s portrayal of the stoic husband, Mr. Clem Miniver. Walter Huston’s proudest moment must have been the 1948 Academy Awards when he won Best Supporting Actor and his son won Best Director for The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Huston’s only complaint was that his son "ruined his sex appeal with long underwear and no teeth."
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