Photo: Greer Garson.; In Mrs. Miniver, in which she appeared withWalter Pidgeon, Greer Garson symbolized the spirit of a British homemaker in wartime. She won the Academy Award as best actress in 1942 for her role in the film.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/us/greer-garson-92-actress-dies-won-oscar-for-mrs-miniver.html
A tribute to one of my favourite film pairings, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. These two became the best of friends off-screen and remained so until their deaths. Walter dubbed Greer the duchess of the MGM lot, and so he in turn becomes her duke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EYNwTy40o
Biography. Titian haired Greer Garson was one of the most popular actress during the 1940s. Unlike most young actresses beginning their careers in Hollywood, Garson was already in her mid-thirties when she made her first film.
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From her arrival in Hollywood in 1939 until 1945, Greer Garson was one of the most famous women in the world. She received Academy Award nominations every year except for 1941 for a total of six.
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1 Greer Garson was beautiful, bright and most of all strong-strong enough to make Laurence Olivier wither in Pride and Prejudice, and Walter Pidgeon to back down in their multiple, memorable pairings. 2  Yet when she joined her strength to theirs and others, she became the symbol of a nation unconquered by Adolf Hitler.
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Garson's performance reversed MGM's concept of her, and she replaced Shearer in the title role of Mrs Miniver (1942) when that actress refused to play the mother of a grown-up son.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarygreer-garson-1303867.html
1 Garson, Greer b. 2  September 29, 1904 d. April 6, 1996. 3  Actress. 4  Greer Garson was beautiful, bright and most of all strong-strong enough to make Laurence Olivier wither in Pride and Prejudice, and Walter Pidgeon to back down in their multiple, memorable pairings.
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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. She was of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. Her childhood was a normal if not non-descript life.
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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (1904 - 1996) was one of the most honored actresses in the history of film, receiving seven nominations from the Motion Picture Academy for Best Actress (six in the 1940s) and winning the award in 1942.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00002/smu-00002.html
Garson and Parker were real-life best friends long before Sex and the City, and Garson says their longtime friendship helped their on-screen chemistry. People who've been friends for 20 years, he said, it really reads on the screen..
http://www.biography.com/people/willie-garson-591616#!
who were greer garsons best friends
Walter Pidgeon was Greer Garson's best friend. Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson were best friends.