Greer Garson Articles

Greer Garson (top); Garson and Teresa Wright in William Wyler’s Mrs. Miniver (bottom) Greer Garson received no less than six Best Actress Academy Award nominations during a seven-year span (1939-1945). The Oscar record of MGM’s First Lady of the 1940s is only matched by that of Warner Bros.’ First Lady of the 1940s (and of the late 1930s), Bette Davis, who also earned six Best [...]

Greer Garson, Ronald Colman in Mervyn LeRoy’s Random Harvest Greer Garson, one of the most underrated actresses of the studio era, will have her day — and I mean "day" as in morning and afternoon — on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, Sept. 29. Garson would have turned 106 years old on that date. Now, when I say "underrated" I mean Garson is underappreciated today. [...]

  Walter Pidgeon on TCM: FORBIDDEN PLANET, EXECUTIVE SUITE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930) An 18th-century English flirt wins the heart of a notorious highwayman. Cast: Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Alfred E. Green. C-63 mins. 4:15 AM Hot Heiress, The (1931) When a society woman falls for a riveter, she tries to pass [...]

I mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell’s grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so he could (more or less) have dated Carmen Miranda on-screen. Had that happened, you could forget Greer Garson — and Tracy-Hepburn, Ladd-Lake, Loy-Powell, Flynn-de Havilland, Garbo-Gilbert, and Abbott-Costello. Pidgeon-Miranda would have been the movie couple [...]