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.

It starred Ronald Colman as a shellshocked, amnesiac First World War soldier and Greer Garson as his love interest.

Garson and Pidgeon had starred together in the previous year's Best Picture Mrs. Miniver.

He then starred opposite Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ) and its sequel, The Miniver Story in 1950.

It was directed by Tay Garnett and starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

The film was directed by Sam Wood for the British division of MGM at Denham Studios, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, and Paul Henreid.

The Valley of Decision starred Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster, Marsha Hunt, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, Dan Duryea and Jessica Tandy.

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.

The only woman recipient, Miss Garson will receive the award with Ferdinando Sarmi, creator of chic, beautiful women's fashions ; ;

During this era, Cukor forged an alliance with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who had met in Cukor's home in 1939 and married three years later.

The film adaptation of Mrs. Miniver was produced by MGM in 1942 with Greer Garson in the leading role and William Wyler directing.

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.

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 ).

Garson was signed to a contract with MGM in late 1937, but did not begin work on her first film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, until late 1938.

Garson was partnered with Clark Gable, after his return from war service, in Adventure ( 1945 ).

On 4 October 1956, Garson appeared with Reginald Gardiner as the first two guest stars in the series premiere of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

They divorced in 1947, with Garson claiming that Ney called her a " has-been " and belittled her age, as well as testimony from Garson that he also physically abused her.

It was also adapted to Lux Radio Theater on the 29 November 1948 episode with Van Heflin and Greer Garson and on the 14 May 1951 episode with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Basehart.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

When the film was released film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film, writing, " We have it on the very good authority of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, who should know — they being not only actors and playwrights but wife and spouse — that what seems a fairly safe profession, acting, is as dangerous as they come and love between people of the theatre is an adventure fraught with infinite perils.

O ' Ferrall would oversee numerous productions of Shakespeare over the course of 1937 ; a ten minute excerpt from Mark Antony's funeral speech in Julius Caesar, starring Henry Oscar ( 11 February ); a ten minute excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing with Henry Oscar as Benedick and Margaretta Scott as Beatrice ( also 11 February ); a twenty-five minute extract from Macbeth, with Henry Oscar as Macbeth and Margaret Rawlings as Lady Macbeth ( 25 March ); a thirty-minute extract from Twelfth Night, with John Wyse as Orsino and Greer Garson as Olivia ( 14 May ); and a sixty-seven minute extract from Othello starring Baliol Holloway as Othello, D. A.

She played another Jane in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, and supported Ann Sothern in Maisie Was a Lady ( 1941 ).

During the 1940s, the Manitoba Conservatives were part of a coalition government with the Liberal-Progressives, and Conservative leader Errick Willis was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

Other cast members include John Alexander, Charles Bronson, Peggy Cass, Barry Curtis, Tom Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon ( who co-wrote the screenplay with Garson Kanin ), Gordon Jones, Madge Kennedy, Nancy Kulp, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Joan Shawlee.

When Crown Matrimonial was telecast on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1974, however, the role of Queen Mary went to film actress Greer Garson.

When Douglas Campbell replaced Garson as Premier of Manitoba on December 14, 1948, he named Greenlay as his Minister of Labour.

In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become Woman of the Year right before Garson enlisted in the army.

Returned by acclamation in the 1941 provincial election, Schultz was transferred to the Ministry of Health on February 5, 1944, by Stuart Garson, who had succeeded Bracken as Premier of Manitoba one year earlier.

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 to 1952 as a Liberal-Progressive, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.

In 1941, Gladney and her work acquired a national reputation after the release of the movie, Blossoms in the Dust, for which Greer Garson, who portrayed Gladney, was nominated for an Academy Award.

From 1941 to 1945, he was a backbench supporter of the ministries of John Bracken and Stuart Garson.

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 to 1949, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.

John Bracken jumped from provincial to federal politics in 1943, and his successor Stuart Garson did the same in 1948.

Meanwhile, Fitz discovers that Judith has plans to spend a romantic evening with their marriage counselor, Garson Shepherd, so he retaliates by taking Tyler out to the same restaurant just to make Judith angry and jealous.

Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor.

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.

Garson lost his seat in 1957, the year that Progressive Conservative leader John Diefenbaker formed a minority government.

In that year this firm constructed a narrow gauge logging railway from Wahnapitae, establishing its main operations at Headquarters Lake, near the Garson townsite.

Most of these have run on Sundays ; in July 2009, Garson announced that the paper's Sunday home-delivery circulation was up 0. 5 percent over the previous year.

Initial ideas stemmed from one of his short stories, and the screenplay originally went under the name of ' The Gentleman Caller ' ( Williams envisioned Ethel Barrymore and Judy Garland for the roles that eventually became Amanda and Laura Wingfield although Louis B. Mayer insisted on casting Greer Garson as Laura ).

Zimbalist attended Yale University in the late 1930s, worked as a page for NBC radio in New York, and served in the army for five years during World War II, where he became friends with Garson Kanin.

In 1917 Kimball Young became involved in an affair with Harry Garson, with whom she then teamed up with in a business venture.