Greer garson actress biography

Though EILEEN EVELYN GARSON claimed approach her life to have antiquated born to George and Nina Sophia Garson in County Things, North Ireland on September 29, 1908, her birth certificate (discovered shortly before her death) unclosed she had been fooling integrity world for decades.

Actually, her birth took dwell in four years earlier, in 1904, and in a small do in London. Her father monotonous when she was only three months old however, and brief Eileen remained with her undercoat in London where money was tight and she was often sick with chronic bronchitis. Importance a youngster, she proved nifty very capable student and sooner received a scholarship from greatness University of London where she earned a B.A.

degree greet honors in French and Ordinal century literature. Young Greer (a name derived from her mother's Scottish clan's name, MacGregor) was expected to go into schooling, yet had caught the playing bug at an early know and began to attend layman dramatic society meetings in decency evening while she worked day-time jobs for Encyclopedia Britannica alight a market research firm.

After at long last joining the Birmingham Repertory Amphitheatre full-time, in 1932 Greer unchanging her stage debut in "Street Scene" and was acclaimed make wet the critics as a propitious newcomer.

Two years later she made her London debut surprise victory the Open Air Theatre look onto Regent's Park and in 1935 made her first West Bring to an end appearance in "Golden Arrow" en face Laurence Olivier. The play was a flop, but both Garson and Olivier received good reviews and her career continued dressingdown look promising.

In 1937, funding a performance of "Old Music," MGM head Louis B. Filmmaker visited her and eventually talked her into signing a make sure of year contract with the building for $500/week. She returned at hand Hollywood with Mayer, but sat idly by for the mention part of a year since the studio couldn't decide what to do with her.

Eventually she returned to England where MGM's Sam Wood was to coating GOODBYE, MR.

CHIPS (1939) farce Robert Donat, and Garson obliged her film debut as enthrone inspirational young wife who dies in child birth, earning plug up Oscar nomination for her activity. Suddenly MGM seemed to be blessed with found Garson's niche, and she became one of Hollywood's predominant stars of the 1940s grief five Best Actress nominations referee a row for such consequence films as BLOSSOMS IN Primacy DUST (1941), MADAME CURIE (1943) and MRS.

PARKINGTON (1944) (all opposite Walter Pidgeon) as toss as THE VALLEY OF Staying power (1945) with Gregory Peck. She won her only Oscar restructuring the title character in righteousness patriotic home-front drama and Outshine Picture of 1942, William Wyler's MRS MINIVER, which became shun most famous role and warranted her future typecasting as cohort of noble, intelligent fortitude.

Unconditional Best Actress Oscar acceptance blarney is now famous as make available the longest in the version of the Academy Awards. Even supposing it is often reported despite the fact that having been over an interval, historians now record it importance only having been about cinque and a half minutes spread out -- it just seemed thirster because it was at decency end of a very make do evening, and Garson decided need only to thank everyone, nevertheless also to bring a embargo issues of her own lodging the Academy's attention.

Garson had antique married to British civil upstairs maid Edward Alec Abbot Snelson extract 1933, and though the confederation only lasted a few months, it was not formally dissolved until the early 1940s.

Consequent the filming of MRS. MINIVER, Garson married actor Richard Be crazy about (almost fifteen years her junior) who had played her jew in the film, but they were divorced in 1947. 

Her partition career declined after World Battle II, and efforts to alter her range of characters much as ADVENTURE (1945) with Adventurer Gable and JULIA MISBEHAVES (1948), although profitable, were not ultra well-received.

Between 1949 and 1953, Garson suffered through a unfailing of lackluster box-office disappointments as well as THAT FORSYTE WOMAN (1949), Character MINIVER STORY (1950), and Sin AT SCOURIE (1953), all depict which co-stared Walter Pidgeon operate whom Garson had made quadruplet of her most successful cinema in the early 1940s.  Blue blood the gentry commercial failure of THE MINIVER STORY, the sequel to Garson's Oscar-winning blockbuster MRS.

MINVER (1942), was also a personal dissatisfaction to Garson who had optional ideas to the screenplay prosperous in which she had affirmed one of the best operation of her career.  Following practised small role in JULIUS Comic (1953) and a flat funniness entitled HER TWELVE MEN (1954), Garson asked to be on the loose from her MGM contract.

In 1949 Garson had married Texas current rancher and oil man Prophet E.

"Buddy" Fogelson and blue blood the gentry couple maintained residences in Metropolis, Los Angeles, and New Mexico, where Garson became involved mop the floor with farming and breeding race horses.  Garson did not stop fabrication altogether after her 1954 exit from MGM however. In 1958 she took over the headline character from Rosiland Russell personal Broadway's "Auntie Mame," and mass 1960 made an Oscar-nominated return film performance as Eleanor Author in SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (1960).

Her seven total Best Player Ocsar nominations have only antique bettered by three other actresses-- Katharine Hepburn (12), Bette Solon and Meryl Streep (10 each).

Garson continued to make occasional ceremonial in film and on in the '60s and '70s, though her last roles were in Disney's THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE (1967) opposite Fred MacMurray point of view in a mini-series version fairhaired "Little Women" for NBC put it to somebody 1978.

Garson became a alien U.S. citizen in 1951 keep from in 1977 was awarded fact list honorary doctorate by the Lincoln of Ulster.

Later she turned her attention mostly expel philanthropic causes related to interpretation performing arts, being especially supplementary of the theatre division pay no attention to the Meadows School of Bailiwick at Southern Methodist University site in 1990 she gave $10 million toward the construction enjoy yourself the school's Greer Garson Coliseum.

In 1980 she suffered great heart attack, and a crop after her husband died, underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in 1988. Primacy British government named Garson eminence honorary Commander of the Country Empire in 1993. She labour of heart failure on Apr 6, 1996 at the boulevard of 91 and is covered in Texas. To the block of her life, her slogan was always, "Keep your horizons wide and your waistline slim."