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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront; listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-10 box office draws from 1942 to ...
Greer Garson. Actress: Pride and Prejudice. Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress.
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson Fogelson, better known as Greer Garson, was an Anglo-American actress who ruled the box office during the 1940s and won a record five consecutive Academy Award nominations for the Best Actress.
Actress: Pride and Prejudice. Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress.
Greer Garson (born September 29, 1904, Manor Park, London, Eng.—died April 6, 1996, Dallas, Texas, U.S.) was a motion-picture actress whose classic beauty and screen persona of elegance, poise, and maternal virtue made her one of the most popular and admired Hollywood stars of the World War II era.
Star of the English stage and the American screen who, despite her Irish origins, became the screen's image of the quintessential Englishwoman.
Greer Garson, the actress who epitomized a noble, wise and courageous wife in some of the sleekest and most sentimental American movies of the 1940s, died Saturday morning at Presbyterian...
Garson, Greer. (b. 29 September 1903 in London, England; d. 6 April 1996 in Dallas, Texas), famed stage and screen actress and philanthropist, nominated for seven Academy Awards and winner as Best Actress for Mrs. Miniver (1942). Born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, her parents were George Garson, a Scottish Presbyterian commercial clerk, and his ...
Although five of Garson's seven Best Actress nominations came for films in which she appeared in black and white, she was nonetheless famous for her red hair, blue-green eyes and alabaster complexion.
Greer Garson, who died Saturday at 92, was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood at a time when Hollywood seemed to house most of the beautiful women in the world. But she was more...