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| When my grandma and I have long conversations about our favorite silver screen actors and actresses (which we do rather often - I inherited my love of film from her;), sooner or later we always end up talking about this lovely lady. My grandma remembers going as a child to the movies to see Greer Garson. Stunningly beautiful, with red hair (which we don't get to see enough of), and a melodic voice, you're in for a treat whenever she comes on screen. She was extremely popular during WWII, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role in Mrs. Miniver.
My favorite of her films {that I've seen} are Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Madame Curie, and The Happiest Millionaire.
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Greer Garson, not only a great actress but her speaking voice was superb...she is the "story teller" in the Rankin Bass version of the little drummer boy..gives me goosebumps
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Greer Garson, one of the top stars at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s who won the best actress Oscar for the blockbuster 1942 blockbuster "Mrs. Miniver," died on this date in 1996 at the age of 91.
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Remembering actress BETTE DAVIS (1908 – 1989), who was born on April 5th. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting. She won for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938). She was nominated for Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), All About Eve (1950), The Star (1952) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was also the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
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