E. E. Greier Garson
Greer Garson
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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an Academy Award winning actress. Known in childhood as "Eggy" and supposedly born in County Down, Ireland, in 1908, she was actually born in London, the only child of George Garson (1865-1906), a clerk from the Orkney Islands who was himself the son of an Irish cabinetmaker, and his Scottish wife, Nancy ("Nina") Sophia Greer.
She was educated at the University of London, where she earned degrees in French and 18th-century literature. She intended to become a teacher, but instead began working with an advertising agency. She appeared in local theatrical productions, and was discovered by Louis B. Mayer while he was in London looking for new talent. Garson was signed to a contract with MGM and appeared in her first American film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in 1939. She received her first Oscar nomination for the role.
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Sources: (1) Bradford Era (Bradford, Pennsylvania) dated May 29th, 1950 - Who's Dating -
GREER GARSON and Buddy Fogelson are back in town. They took Greer's mother to the Mocambo....
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Greer Garson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an Academy Award winning actress. Known in childhood as "Eggy" and supposedly born in County Down, Ireland, in 1908, she was actually born in London, the only child of George Garson (1865-1906), a clerk from the Orkney Islands who was himself the son of an Irish cabinetmaker, and his Scottish wife, Nancy ("Nina") Sophia Greer.
She was educated at the University of London, where she earned degrees in French and 18th-century literature. She intended to become a teacher, but instead began working with an advertising agency. She appeared in local theatrical productions, and was discovered by Louis B. Mayer while he was in London looking for new talent. Garson was signed to a contract with MGM and appeared in her first American film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in 1939. She received her first Oscar nomination for the role.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a British matron pluckily surviving in the midst of war in Mrs. Miniver, and she received more nominations during the 1940s. By the end of the decade, and through the 1950s, however, her roles were becoming less appreciated. In 1960, however, she again received an Oscar nomination for Sunrise at Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt.
The actress was married three times. Her first husband, married on Sept. 28, 1933, was Edward Alec Abbot Snelson (1904-1992), a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian and Pakistani affairs; the marriage reportedly lasted only a few weeks, ultimately dissolved in the 1940s (Snelson was later knighted). Her second, whom she married in 1943, was Richard Ney (born 1914, 1915, 1917, or 1918, sources differ), the young actor who played her son in "Mrs. Miniver"; they divorced in 1949, with Garson claiming that Ney had called her a has-been and belittled her age (Ney eventually became a respected stock-market analyst and financial consultant). That same year she married a millionaire Texas oilman and horse breeder, E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson (died 1987), and in 1967, the couple retired to the Forked Lightning Ranch in New Mexico. She died of heart failure in Dallas, Texas and is interred there in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Sources: (1) Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) dated January 22nd, 1955: --
GREER GARSON say that "history is shaped not ony by great events, invasions, revolutions, treaties, and statues, but by the cumulative inevitable effect of the thought, work and behavior of each ordinary individual, every ordinary day."
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Sources: (1) Waterloo Daily Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) dated January 5th, 1950: --
LONDON, ENGLAND--(A.P.)--(Actress) Greer Garson came down with Laryngitis Thursday, delaying work on a new movie.
Friends said she worried herself sick over her ailing husband. Texas Oil Magnate (Colonel) E. E. Fogelson.
Fogelson had a heart attack in New York last month and remains ill there.
Miss [sic] Garson is confined to her hotel suit. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said she hopes to resume filming next Monday.
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GARSON, GREER
PHOTOGRAPH (INSCRIBED)
See Description Signed-Autograph Very Good GARSON, Greer. Photograph, original half-length publicity pose in stripped blouse for MGM [ca. 1945], boldly signed and inscribed in green ink: "For Paula Tierney, with all good wishes. Greer Garson." Fine. 10" x 8".
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GARSON, Greer.
Original Vintage Photograph Signed("Greer Garson") in black ink.
Full face portrait with both hands folded below her chin with her head turned to the left wearing a satin long sleeve grown. 10" x 8" on heavy stock. Fine, fresh example. Boldly signed and inscribed: "Welcome to the screen Chester and may 'Julius Caesar' be the first of many happy & successful undertakings for you Best wishes always, Greer Garson, 1952." Garson played the role of Calpurnia in "Julius Caesar.
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GARSON, GREER
DOCUMENT SIGNED
See Description Signed-Autograph Very Good GARSON, Greer. Document Signed, Culver City, December 29, 1944. Agreement with Loew's Inc., Culver City, for Garson's appearance at the request of the Victory Committee, on the "Command Performance" program to be broadcast on December 30, 1944. 4to, 1p. (file holes at top).
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GARSON, GREER
DOCUMENT SIGNED
See Description Signed-Autograph Very Good GARSON, Greer. Document Signed on MGM letterhead, Culver City, December 7, 1953. Contract agreement between Garson and MGM/Loew's Inc.; also signed by a Loew's Vice-President. 4to, 1p. (file holes at top).
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Digest and Review 1944--Sep. (magazine) (Greer Garson.)
Digest and Review 1944--Sep.
(Fair to good) Article about Greer Garson. (Digest)
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