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Greer Garson- Nickname

The Duchess of Garson

Greer Garson- Trivia

She once broke a dental cap in Trader Vic's restaurant and had to reassemble the bits with gift-shop adhesive.
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She loved a breakfast of orange juice with a raw egg in it.
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"Scandal at Scourie" (1953) was the only Greer Garson/Walter Pidgeon film that did not open at Radio City Music Hall. It was also the last time the famous couple would ever act together.
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Directors George Cukor and Mervyn LeRoy both worked on Greer's 1947 movie "Desire Me." Both tried to make something out of it, but failed. Both of them insisted that their names not appear on the screen, and so the picture came out without any director listed at all, the only major film ever issued without a director's credit.
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"The Valley of Decision" (1945) brought in $8,096,000, the biggest gross of any Greer Garson film, and Greer's sixth nomination for Best Actress.
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Her husband, Buddy Fogelson, taught Greer about the oil industry and named an oil field for her in Palo Pinto County, Texas.
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Greer's disillusionment with "Adventure" (1946), the film she hoped would open new opportunities for her at MGM turned to anger when she heard the publicity slogan that Howard Dietz was preparing: "Gable's Back and Garson's Got Him!" Dietz tried to appease her objections with an alternate: "Gable Puts the Arson in Garson." "They're ungallant," she indignantly replied. "Why don't you say, 'Garson Puts the Able in Gable?'" Gable's sour reaction to the fiasco was unprintable.
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Louis B. Mayer once compared Greer to his favorite racehorse, Busher, calling her "a classy filly who runs the track according to orders, and comes home with blue ribbons!"
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After she shampooed her famous red hair, she rinsed it with a cup of California champagne, brushed it out one hundred strokes, and then tied it up in a net for the night.
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At the height of her career, there were more than two hundred official Greer Garson fan clubs around the world.
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She always carried her own thick red pencil in her bag. Her signature in guest books was as much of a standout as she was.
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She wore a different perfume for every new picture.
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Two of her nicknames during her pre-Hollywood stage career were "U.P.," the Universal Provider, always ready to help a fellow actor with her ready supply of safety pins, mints, and threads, and "Ca-reer Garson."
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"Blossoms in the Dust" (1941) was MGM's fifth movie in full color.
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On July 23, 1942, Greer put her footprints and autograph in the cement forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater. Underneath the cement square, a time capsule was placed containing a print of the motion picture, "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), a copy of the manuscript and of the book.
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Her two pet poodles were called Gogo and Cliquot. Gogo got to stroll down a country lane with Greer in "The Valley of Decision" (1945).
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She considered "Random Harvest" (1942) her best picture, not Mrs. Miniver (1942).
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Greer liked to work with cameraman Joe Ruttenberg. He had noted that she always photographed better when she held her chin up and devised a set of signals that would tip her off when it began to dip.
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She kept her weight in check by lunching on hot sauerkraut juice.
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Pre-movie career: Head of market research and information department of Lever Brothers in London.
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Of Marlon Brando she said, "Actors like him are good but on the whole I do not enjoy actors who seek to commune with their armpits, so to speak."
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As a child, Greer suffered from chronic bronchitis, which required that she be confined to bed for six weeks each spring, autumn and winter.
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Winston Churchill said that Mrs. Miniver (1942) did more for the war effort than a fleet of destroyers.
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In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Judy Garland appeared briefly as Madame Crematon singing "The Great Lady Has an Interview," a satiric spoof of Greer Garson.
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In 1947 Greer received a new seven-year contract guaranteeing her $30,000 a year for life-- whether she stayed at MGM or not.
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Clark Gable hated Adventure (1945), his first movie after the war, and wasn't fond of Greer Garson. He put her in the same category as Vivien Leigh-- English girls taking away good parts from American actresses. "A good time to Miss Garson," Clark said, "is tea time." Adventure was a bad movie, but the studio publicity was worse: Gable's back and Garson's got him! Critics added, "... and they deserve each other." Clark was angry, embarrassed, and crushed. He would never get over the slogan. His homecoming film should have been a blockbuster, but he refused to pass a movie theater with Adventure on the marquee. His fans didn't let him down, however. It was a box-office success.
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Greer was presented a plaque as the Queen of New York's Radio City Music Hall because more of her films played there (14) than those of any other actress; they also played for the most number of weeks (83) of any actress.
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Greer was an Academy Award nominee five years in a row as Best Actress (1941-45), a record no one has topped and only Bette Davis (1938-1942) has matched.
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Garson didn't want to do Mrs. Miniver (1942) at all. She didn't dislike the part, only the idea that she'd have to play the mother of a grown son, something which in the 1940s could dash chances of ever again playing an attractive leading lady. Norma Shearer had earlier turned down the film for the same reason; Norma, however, had the clout to get her own way. Greer, at that point, did not.
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Greer often laughingly referred to herself as "MGM's Glorified Mama" - not an unreasonable label, actually, since her home studio of MGM so often cast her as a wise and compassionate wife and/or mother. She was the movies' beloved Mrs. Chips, Mrs. Gladney, Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. Parkington, Madame Curie and Mrs. Forsyte, to name a few, including the wives of Julius Caesar and F.D.R..
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Garson formed an attractive romantic partnership with the stalwart and gentlemanly Walter Pidgeon, with whom she co-starred eight times.
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Mrs. Miniver (1942) racked up 12 Academy Award nominations and won six Oscars including Best Picture, Director (William Wyler), Actress (Garson) and Supporting Actress (Teresa Wright), plus an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to the film's producer, Sidney Franklin. Garson entered Oscar lore with her acceptance speech, which began "I am practically unprepared." She rambled on for several minutes, leaving one wit to observe that her speech was "longer than her performance." As the legend grew, some witnesses with faulty memories claimed that she spoke for over an hour.
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In 1952, she accepted the Oscar for best actress in a leading role on behalf of Vivien Leigh. In 1962, she accepted the Oscar for best actress in a leading role on behalf of Sophia Loren.
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Greer Garson- Personal Cotes

"I think that women can be a tremendous force in the world. If it were up to women there would always be peace... women don't want war. Squabbles maybe, but not war!"

"I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs."

"I dislike bullfights, political arguments, bouillabaisse, hamburgers-- they give me indigestion-- and horse-racing."

"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-- and not tilted down to the troubled vistas of conflict."

"It's my husband who does the doing, I just do the talking."

"In a way it's too bad I had to be a 'movie star,' because it didn't allow me to be the actress I wanted to be."

"Gracious is a word that has haunted me all my life. I abhor it. The only things I'm allergic to are the words 'gracious' and caraway. I would much rather be thought of as zesty, mischievous or serene, although I'm not at all serene, I'm afraid."

"You know an actress never quite finally gives up working but always hopes that the irresistible script will appear someday."

"Give a redhead an inch, and she'll take a mile and a half."

"Life is so exciting that one life seems hardly enough to live."

"The screen's main function, I believe, is to give the world beauty and romance, to make us forget our own troubles for a time and send us out of the theater with a lift of the heart."

"To this day, I still think Louis Mayer played Mrs. Miniver better than I did."

"When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it."

"I was a star in London. I did not come to Hollywood to play supporting roles."

"People are always asking me what it was like during the golden years of Hollywood. That was in the 1920s and '30s-- which wasn't my period. My period, the '40s and '50s, is what I call the romantic years of Hollywood."

"Experiment-- don't be content to stay faithful to one safe color scheme. I do all my experimenting with scarves and try out all sorts of daring color combinations that way, before I venture out with a complete outfit."

"Only the very young who are trying to make their way, who are riding the crest of the first burst of ambition are allowed to be self-centered."

"It's rather mortifying that although I boast of being descended from Viking robbers and bold cattle rustlers, I'm a rotten sailor and terrified of cows!"

"I am very impatient by nature, quick-tempered, and high strung with a tendency to want things done at once, or not at all."

"I only have a few clothes, all of them quite simple."

"I find I like commotion better than emotion."

"One's life is a crossroads pointing in every direction."

"Time is too short. Not enough. I wanted to live a lot of lives at the same time. Only by being an actress could I do that."

"Playing a love scene requires a feeling of intimacy between man and woman and intense concentration. I don't like to look over the shoulder of a man and see the long gloomy sound stage behind the camera, cluttered with equipment and pieces of sets from past pictures."

"Say I'm dreary, say I'm sad. Say my acting doesn't please. Say my films are awfully bad. But don't knock my knees."

"All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen."

"I decided once I was fortunate enough to get away from Hollywood, it would take wild horses to drag me back."

"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."

"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."

Greer Garson- Introduction

Birth name: Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson

Date of birth (location): 29 September 1904,London, England, UK

Date of death (details): 6 April 1996,Dallas, Texas, USA (heart failure)