Born: September 29th, 1904 (London)
Died: April 6th, 1996 (heart failure)
Marriage: Edward Alec Abbot Snelson (1933-1940), Richard Ney (1943-1947), E. E. Fogelson (1949-His death in 1987)
Children: She did not have any children of her own but her last husband adopted three children from his brother after his brothers death, giving her three adopted step children.
Interesting Fact: Greer Garson holds the record with Bette Davis of five academy award nominations in a row from 1941-1945.
Success: Her success was greatly with MGM in the forties. Her most successful film that won her the Oscar was "Mrs. Miniver" (1942).
Awards: She has been nominated a total of six times for the Academy Awards: "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939), "Blossoms in the Dust" (1941), "Madame Curie" (1943), "Mrs. Parkington" (1944), "The Valley of Decision" (1945) & "Sunrise at Campobello" (1960). She has also achieved eight other acting awards.
My Favorite Film: I just recently watched "Blossoms in the Dust" this last year and was very impressed with it, but my favorite by far is "Random Harvest" (1942)
Mrs. Garson was like the Jimmy Stewart of the women. You could put her in any leading role and suddenly she wasn't any other character but that one. In life she was very tall and intimidating but in person she was very warm-hearted. She did not intend on become an actress and dabbled with the stage until she was discovered by Louis B. Mayer while he was visiting London. She is definitely one of my favorite leading ladies.
"I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict."
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