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5 unusual facts about Greer Garson


Edith Evanson

During her time in Hollywood she co-starred opposite some of its greatest legends; Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Michael Rennie.

Homer Fieldhouse

While in Southern California, he helped with landscaping homes for movie stars such as Greer Garson.

Jack Dawn

Dawn worked with many of Hollywood's legendary performers, including Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Greer Garson, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Fred Astaire, and Betty Hutton.

Ray Fulmer

Fulmer first began on Broadway with a role in Auntie Mame, co-starring with a number of different actresses in the lead role, including Rosalind Russell, Greer Garson, Beatrice Lillie and Eve Arden.

Strange Lady in Town

Strange Lady in Town is a 1955 film starring Greer Garson.


Brenda Forbes

On screen she appeared in several films over a 50 year period including Mrs. Miniver with Greer Garson and her last role, a cameo in The Jerky Boys.

Dangerous When Wet

When asked whether she knew him when the studio suggested his name for a possible co-star, Williams mentioned that "he starred in movies with Jane Powell, Greer Garson, and Lana Turner, and she knew he was romantically linked to Lana Turner. And she heard he could swim. Yes, Fernando Lamas sounded like good casting."

Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth has been portrayed by Greer Garson in the 1940 film adaptation of the novel, by Elizabeth Garvie in the 1980 BBC mini-series, by Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 television series, by Keira Knightley in the 2005 film adaptation, and by Ashley Clements in the online modernized YouTube adaption.

Norman Tokar

With a Sherman Brothers score and a cast including Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, and John Davidson, the studio hoped the film would do as well with critics and audiences as Mary Poppins had three years earlier.


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Blossoms in the Dust

It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.

Kellie Waymire

She attended Southern Methodist University (where she won the Greer Garson Award), graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and later earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1993.