Cast & creator
Greer Garson
Best known for The Merv Griffin Show, The Love Boat, What's My Line?
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British and American actress. Very popular during World War II, she was listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. Known for playing dignified and graceful women, Garson established herself as among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and Britain and received seven Academy Award nominations, winning one for Mrs. Miniver (1942), which was also the highest grossing film of that year. Originally a stage actress in England, she signed a contract with MGM and moved to Hollywood in 1937. She achieved success immediately for her debut film Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Following the romantic comedy Remember? (1939) and the period drama Pride and Prejudice (1940), Garson starred in a string of commercial and critical successes that earned her a record five consecutive Academy Award nominations for Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Mrs. Parkington (1944), and The Valley of Decision (1945). With her popularity slowly dwindling in the 1950s as her contract with MGM expired, she moved to Broadway. She received her seventh and final Academy Award nomination for the biographical film Sunrise at Campobello (1960).
Also known as: Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson
51
film credits
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television credits
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1934–2009 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (72)
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The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Love Boat
Alice Bailey
1977
What's My Line?
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest
1956
Father Knows Best
1954
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968
The Oscars
Self
1953
This Is Your Life
Self
1952
Telephone Time
1956
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Regina
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lady Cicely Wayneflete
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mary Anne Disraeli
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951The Big Party
Self – Hostess
1959
General Electric Theater
Molly Malloy
1953General Electric Theater
Lydia Shaw
1953General Electric Theater
Antonia Stuart
1953
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet
1940
Little Women
Kathryn March
1978
The Valley of Decision
Mary Rafferty
1945
Mrs. Miniver
Mrs. Miniver
1942
Julius Caesar
Calpurnia
1953
Desire Me
Marise Aubert
1947
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
The Little Drummer Boy
Narrator (voice)
1968
The Happiest Millionaire
Cordelia Biddle
1967
Random Harvest
Paula
1942Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Adventure
Emily Sears
1945
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
1940
Directed by William Wyler
Self
1986
Strange Lady in Town
Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
1955
Blossoms in the Dust
Edna Gladney
1941
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage)
2005
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Katherine 'Kathy'
1939Crown Matrimonial
Queen Mary
1974
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
1982
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
1939
Mrs. Parkington
Susie Parkington
1944
Madame Curie
Marie Curie
1943
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
1944
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
1940
Her Twelve Men
Jan Stewart
1954
The Youngest Profession
Greer Garson
1943
Sunrise at Campobello
Eleanor Roosevelt
1960
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Law and the Lady
Jane Hoskins
1951
The Miniver Story
Kay Miniver
1950
When Ladies Meet
Mrs. Claire Woodruff
1941
That Forsyte Woman
Irene Forsyte
1949
The Singing Nun
Mother Prioress
1966
Pepe
Greer Garson
1960Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Lady Cicely Waynflete
1960Inasmuch...
St. Clara
1934
Mondo Hollywood
1967How He Lied to Her Husband
Aurora Bompas
1937
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
1954
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II
Narrator (voice)
1976
Julia Misbehaves
Julia Packett
1948
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Mary Anne Disraeli
1963
Scandal at Scourie
Victoria McChesney
1953
Remember?
Linda Bronson
1939The School for Scandal
Maria
1937Screen Actors
Self (uncredited)
1950
The Little Foxes
Regina Giddens
1956
The Awful Truth
Linda Warner
1956