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Olivia De Havilland signed to do a Broadway play for Garson Kanin this season, `` A Gift of Time ''.
Greer Garson, world-famous star of stage, screen and television, will be honored for the high standard in tasteful sophisticated fashion with which she has created a high standard in her profession.
He refused to allow her to join Olivier in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ), and Greer Garson played the role Leigh had wanted for herself.
Tracy and Hepburn's friends, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, wrote the parts specifically for the duo.
" Garson Kanin, a friend of Tracy's for 25 years, described him as " a true believer " who respected his religion.
As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ).
Louis B. Mayer discovered Garson while he was in London looking for new talent.
Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a strong British wife and mother in the middle of World War II in Mrs. Miniver.
" Gable argued for " He put the Arson in Garson "; she countered " She put the Able in Gable!
In 1960, Garson received her seventh and final Oscar nomination for Sunrise at Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt, this time losing to Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8.
Ruth Gordon ( later of Rosemary's Baby and Harold and Maude fame ) and Garson Kanin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1950.
The outline for the film was developed by Garson Kanin, a close friend of Hepburn.
It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color ( Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis ), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.
Greer Garson, whose performance was well-received, was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as she had already been nominated that year for her role in Mrs. Miniver.
Greer Garson from the trailer for Random Harvest
The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Walter Pidgeon ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, and Best Sound, Recording ( Douglas Shearer ).

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The attractive Greer Garson, who loves beautiful clothes and selects them as carefully as she does her professional roles, prefers timeless classical designs.
Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was born in County Down, Ireland.
Honors that have come to Greer Garson are countless.
The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.
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** Greer Garson, English actress ( b. 1904 )
* September 29 – Greer Garson, English actress ( d. 1996 )
The film adaptation of Mrs. Miniver was produced by MGM in 1942 with Greer Garson in the leading role and William Wyler directing.
In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively.
A sequel to Mrs Miniver, The Miniver Story was made by the same studio in 1950 with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprising their original roles.
This is the best known screen version, starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid.
Greer Garson, CBE ( 29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996 ) was a British actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942-46.
Greer Garson was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in Manor Park, Essex, England in 1904, the only child of George Garson ( 1865 – 1906 ), a clerk born in London, but with Scottish lineage, and his wife, Nina ( née Nancy Sophia Greer ; died 1958 ).
They also maintained a home in Dallas, Texas, where Garson funded the Greer Garson Theatre facility at Southern Methodist University.

Garson and Theatre
In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Herry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.

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Greer Garson died from heart failure at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on 6 April 1996 at the age of 91.
Marie Sklodowska ( Greer Garson ) is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne.
The movie was directed by George Stevens and written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Garson Kanin ( uncredited ), Frank Ross ( Jean Arthur's husband at the time ), and Robert Russell.
* June 4-Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York, in what will become a record-breaking 10-week run.
Sunrise at Campobello stars Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn and Jean Hagen.
( l-r ) Ralph Bellamy, Eleanor Roosevelt and Greer Garson at Hyde Park, NY, filming Sunrise at Campobello ( 1960 )
He made his stage debut at age seven when he appeared in the children's play Dinosaur Door, written by Barbara Garson.
After graduation, he worked at an advertising agency, where the company secretary, aspiring actress Greer Garson, suggested he take up a career in acting.
Keach played the title role in MacBird !, an Off Broadway anti-war satire by Barbara Garson staged at the Village Gate in 1966.
Current volunteers at HSN include Kim Church, Betty Leigh, and Julie Tello ( all from Shop at Home Network in Nashville, TN ) along with Karin Friedman, Bob Garson, Rob Kirkland, Charlie Hill, and Roger Frost ( who joined HSN as volunteers on November 10, 1996 ), Steve Mitchum, Diana Davis, Peter Lerner, Megan Fisher, Charlie Mendoza, Megan Polcino, Kelli Edwards, Matt Keller, Peter Grant, and Paul Cloud.
Garson moved to federal politics in 1948, at the behest of new Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.
In that year this firm constructed a narrow gauge logging railway from Wahnapitae, establishing its main operations at Headquarters Lake, near the Garson townsite.
The ghost town of Happy Valley, originally known as Spruce Valley, was first inhabited in 1906 by workers from the nearby mine at Garson.
In 1930, the Garson Mine shut down, and the workers were transferred to the mines at Falconbridge.
Shooting was scheduled in the Abiquiú area, and then resumed in Santa Fe for some interiors at Garson Studios on the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus during the last week in October 2010.

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