Greer Garson

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Biography

Her relatively brief but affecting debut performance as Mrs. Chipping in the touching "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939) won her the first of seven Oscar nominations as Best Actress and made her an immediate star. After a lovely turn as the intelligent, playful Elizabeth in the comic "Pride and Prejudice" (1940), Garson inherited from Norma Shearer the mantle of Metro's resident prestige actress, suffering with genteel dignity through a series of …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

September 29, 1903

LATEST CREDITS

Crown Matrimonial

Queen Mary

Her Twelve Men

Jan Stewart

Strange Lady in Town

Julia Winslow Garth

Sunrise at Campobello

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

Actor

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Katherine Ellis

That Forsyte Woman

Actor

Adventure

Actor

The Singing Nun

Mother Prioress

Happiest Millionaire

Mrs Cordelia Biddle

Perry Como's Christmas in New Mexico

Actor

Julius Caesar

Calpurnia

The Little Drummer Boy, Book II

Narration

Little Women

Aunt March

Directed By William Wyler

Herself

Pepe

Herself

On Golden Pond

Broadway Play Producer