Greer Garson
Born
Sept. 29, 1904
in County Down, Ireland
Died
April 6, 1996
of heart failure in Dallas, Texas
British actress Greer Garson earned a 1942 Academy Award for her performance as the courageous English housewife in "Mrs. Miniver." Although she lasted less than a decade as a major motion picture star, the impression of her aristocratic beauty and gentle manner set a style that echoed in the public mind for more than a quarter-century after she had virtually retired. The titian-haired product of the English theater — who had six Oscar nominations in addition to her win — felt she was never able to get beyond the public's image of her as Mrs. Miniver, the steadfast wife of an Englishman fighting a threatened Nazi invasion of Britain. "I made my stage start in light comedy," she told an interviewer during the late 1940s, "and I entered film with the idea that I would find the same kind of parts—with some really nasty villainesses for good measure. "Instead, I seem eternally to be Mrs. Miniver. "It's not that I don't enjoy such roles. Anyone would. But I would so like to play a real bitch just once."
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Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Work | |
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| 1939 | Best Actress | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Nomination |
| 1941 | Best Actress | Blossoms in the Dust | Nomination |
| 1942 | Best Actress | Mrs. Miniver | Win |
| 1943 | Best Actress | Madame Curie | Nomination |
| 1944 | Best Actress | Mrs. Parkington | Nomination |
| 1945 | Best Actress | The Valley of Decision | Nomination |
| 1960 | Best Actress | Sunrise at Campobello | Nomination |
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