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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 Goodby…
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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).
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Greer Garson's Filmography
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Crown Matrimonial
as Queen Mary
The Little Drummer Boy
as Narrator (voice)
The Happiest Millionaire
as Cordelia Biddle
Mondo Hollywood
The Singing Nun
as Mother Prioress
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
as Mary Anne Disraeli
Pepe
as Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello
as Eleanor Roosevelt
No Poster
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Lady Cicely Waynflete
The Little Foxes
as Regina Giddens
The Awful Truth
as Linda Warner
Strange Lady in Town
as Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
Her Twelve Men
as Jan Stewart
Julius Caesar
as Calpurnia
Scandal at Scourie
as Victoria McChesney
The Law and the Lady
as Jane Hoskins
The Miniver Story
as Kay Miniver
No Poster
Screen Actors
as Self (uncredited)
That Forsyte Woman
as Irene Forsyte
Julia Misbehaves
as Julia Packett
Desire Me
as Marise Aubert
Adventure
as Emily Sears
The Valley of Decision
as Mary Rafferty
Mrs. Parkington
as Susie Parkington
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
Madame Curie
as Marie Curie
The Youngest Profession
as Greer Garson
Random Harvest
as Paula
Mrs. Miniver
as Mrs. Miniver
When Ladies Meet
as Mrs. Claire Woodruff
Blossoms in the Dust
as Edna Gladney
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Pride and Prejudice
as Elizabeth Bennet
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
Remember?
as Linda Bronson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Katherine 'Kathy'
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
No Poster
How He Lied to Her Husband
as Aurora Bompas
No Poster
The School for Scandal
as Maria
No Poster
Inasmuch...
as St. Clara