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.

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 won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Drama.

She attended Southern Methodist University ( where she won the Greer Garson Award ), graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and later earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1993.

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.

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 ).

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.

Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers rehearsingBrief Encounter was adapted as a radio play on the 20 November 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, starring Greer Garson.

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.

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 ).

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.

Garson was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress and Agnes Moorehead for Best Supporting Actress.

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ) and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ( Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins ), Best Costume Design, Color and Best Sound ( George Groves ).

Produced for the new medium by George More O ' Ferrall, the production is also notable for having featured a young actress who would later go on to win an Academy Award – Greer Garson.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ) and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

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.

In 1974, Mort Garson composed the electronic music score for the 18th Annual Grammy Award winning Best Children's Recording of The Little Prince narrated by Richard Burton.

Doris Day was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Drama but lost to Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello.

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.

Louis B. Mayer discovered Garson while he was in London looking for new talent.

" 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.

Garson donated millions for the construction of the Greer Garson Theatre at both the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts on three conditions: 1 ) the stages be circular, 2 ) the premiere production be William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and 3 ) they have large ladies ' rooms.

The outline for the film was developed by Garson Kanin, a close friend of Hepburn.

Greer Garson from the trailer for Random Harvest

Garson starred with Joan Crawford in When Ladies Meet in 1941, and that same year became a major box office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama, Blossoms in the Dust, which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis ' 1938-42 record, a record that still stands.

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

* Best Writing, Original Screenplay – Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon ( nominees )

* The 18th Golden Globe Awards were held ; winners include Burt Lancaster ( Best Actor – Drama ), Greer Garson ( Best Actress – Drama ) and Spartacus ( Best Film – Drama ).

Gordon married second husband, writer Garson Kanin, who was 16 years her junior, in 1942.

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

Garson and co-star Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver ( film ) | Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 )

Stuart Garson was the unanimous choice of coalition Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) to replace Bracken, in a vote held on December 22, 1942.

The attractive Greer Garson, who loves beautiful clothes and selects them as carefully as she does her professional roles, prefers timeless classical designs.

Both Miss Garson and her oilman-rancher husband are active supporters of Boys Clubs of America and patrons of the vivid art and opera colony that flourishes in New Mexico.

" Garson Kanin shared their viewpoint and described Leigh as " a stunner whose ravishing beauty often tended to obscure her staggering achievements as an actress.

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.

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.

For the role of Delilah, actresses Märta Torén, Viveca Lindfors, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Jane Greer, Greer Garson, and Maureen O ' Hara were considered but the part went to Hedy Lamarr after DeMille saw her during a screening of the film The Strange Woman.

She wins a big case, celebrates with the man in her life, Phil Garson ( Stephen Lang ), and returns to work to a hero's reception.

Judy Garland spoofs a movie star who can only be cast in Oscar winning dramas, but wants to play " sexy " roles ( a la Greer Garson, or Katharine Hepburn ) giving an interview to dancing reporters about " her next picture ": a bio-pic of Madame Cremantante ( the " inventor of the safety pin ").

Kimball Young also began suffering a series of press attacks for her business dealings and personal relationship with Garson.