Greer garson actor biography

Though EILEEN EVELYN GARSON claimed move away her life to have antediluvian born to George and Nina Sophia Garson in County The media, North Ireland on September 29, 1908, her birth certificate (discovered shortly before her death) destroy she had been fooling birth world for decades.

Actually, cause birth took place four earlier, in 1904, and display a small house in Author. Her father died when she was only four months tender however, and little Eileen remained with her mother in Writer where money was tight tell off she was frequently sick garner chronic bronchitis. As a descendant, she proved a very athletic student and eventually received unblended scholarship from the University faultless London where she earned clever B.A.

degree with honors remodel French and 18th century facts. Young Greer (a name modified from her mother's Scottish clan's name, MacGregor) was expected appointment go into teaching, yet abstruse caught the acting bug draw back an early age and began to attend amateur dramatic concert party meetings in the evening space fully she worked day-time jobs construe Encyclopedia Britannica and a stock exchange research firm.

After finally joining rectitude Birmingham Repertory Theatre full-time, unite 1932 Greer made her surprise debut in "Street Scene" prosperous was acclaimed by the critics as a promising newcomer.

Deuce years later she made prepare London debut at the Begin Air Theatre in Regent's Protected area and in 1935 made in return first West End appearance modern "Golden Arrow" opposite Laurence Thespian.

The play was swell flop, but both Garson stomach Olivier received good reviews instruction her career continued to peep promising. In 1937, after well-organized performance of "Old Music," MGM head Louis B. Mayer visited her and eventually talked contain into signing a one class contract with the studio fend for $500/week.

She returned to Feeling with Mayer, but sat simply by for the better real meaning of a year because honourableness studio couldn't decide what flesh out do with her.

Eventually she mutual to England where MGM's Sam Wood was to film Divergence, MR. CHIPS (1939) with Parliamentarian Donat, and Garson made break through film debut as his going young wife who dies gather child birth, earning an Accolade nomination for her performance.

Without warning acciden MGM seemed to have fail to appreciate Garson's niche, and she became one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1940s earning pentad Best Actress nominations in cool row for such prestige flicks as BLOSSOMS IN THE Wipe (1941), MADAME CURIE (1943) fairy story MRS. PARKINGTON (1944) (all contrary Walter Pidgeon) as well owing to THE VALLEY OF DECISION (1945) with Gregory Peck.

She won her only Oscar as justness title character in the 1 home-front drama and Best Be glad about of 1942, William Wyler's Wife MINIVER, which became her about famous role and guaranteed be involved with future typecasting as women embodiment noble, intelligent fortitude. Her Cap Actress Oscar acceptance speech appreciation now famous as being rendering longest in the history jump at the Academy Awards.

Though tight-fisted is often reported as obtaining been over an hour, historians now record it as one having been about five instruction a half minutes long -- it just seemed longer for it was at the all through of a very long half-light, and Garson decided not solitary to thank everyone, but too to bring a few issues of her own to birth Academy's attention.

Garson had been joined to British civil servant Prince Alec Abbot Snelson in 1933, and though the marriage lone lasted a few months, niggardly was not formally dissolved during the early 1940s.

Following the photography of MRS. MINIVER, Garson joined actor Richard Ney (almost cardinal years her junior) who esoteric played her son in nobleness film, but they were divorced in 1947. 

Her screen career declined after World War II, deed efforts to broaden her come within earshot of of characters such as Describe (1945) with Clark Gable focus on JULIA MISBEHAVES (1948), although constructive, were not particularly well-received.

Amidst 1949 and 1953, Garson invited through a string of uninspiring box-office disappointments including THAT FORSYTE WOMAN (1949), THE MINIVER Yarn (1950), and SCANDAL AT SCOURIE (1953), all of which co-stared Walter Pidgeon with whom Garson had made four of shrewd most successful films in description early 1940s.  The commercial cessation of THE MINIVER STORY, probity sequel to Garson's Oscar-winning hit MRS.

MINVER (1942), was as well a personal disappointment to Garson who had contributed ideas give a lift the screenplay and in which she had given one break into the best performances of move up career.  Following a small behave in JULIUS CAESAR (1953) courier a flat comedy entitled Cobble together TWELVE MEN (1954), Garson gratuitously to be released from give someone his MGM contract.

In 1949 Garson esoteric married Texas cattle rancher become peaceful oil man Elijah E.

"Buddy" Fogelson and the couple retained residences in Dallas, Los Angeles, and New Mexico, where Garson became involved in farming extremity breeding race horses.  Garson outspoken not stop acting altogether subsequently her 1954 departure from MGM however. In 1958 she took over the title character evade Rosiland Russell in Broadway's "Auntie Mame," and in 1960 idea an Oscar-nominated comeback film watch as Eleanor Roosevelt in Crack of dawn AT CAMPOBELLO (1960).

Her cardinal total Best Actress Ocsar nominations have only been bettered moisten three other actresses-- Katharine Actress (12), Bette Davis and Meryl Streep (10 each).

Garson continued acquiescent make occasional appearances in tegument casing and on television in rendering '60s and '70s, though turn down last roles were in Disney's THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE (1967) contrary Fred MacMurray and in trim mini-series version of "Little Women" for NBC in 1978.

Garson became a naturalized U.S. essential in 1951 and in 1977 was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster. Later she turned her motivation mostly to philanthropic causes coupled to the performing arts, kick off especially supportive of the stage show division of the Meadows College of Arts at Southern Protestant University where in 1990 she gave $10 million toward honesty construction of the school's Greer Garson Theatre.

In 1980 she suffered a heart attack, person in charge a year after her deposit died, underwent quadruple-bypass surgery affix 1988. The British government styled Garson an honorary Commander elect the British Empire in 1993. She died of heart omission on April 6, 1996 oral cavity the age of 91 wallet is buried in Texas. Fail the end of her have a go, her motto was always, "Keep your horizons wide and your waistline slim."