Word: garson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MADAME CURIE (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; TIME...
Paul Lukas and Greet Garson, according to U.S. critics polled by Film Daily, did the best cinemacting of the year, he in Watch on the Rhine, she in Random Harvest. She got the same honor (plus an Oscar) last year for Mrs. Miniver...
...before Greer's contract was to expire, word came from the studio. In his search for Mrs. Chips, Sam Wood had tested half the top-flight actresses in Hollywood. Desperate, he asked for every test M.G.M. had ever made, and for the first time became aware of Greer Garson. She was it. They would go to London at once for the shooting. Greer took the part chiefly in order to get away from Hollywood and back to England. Her spine has not troubled her since...
...learn that one class of the Army Air Forces Bombardier School at Midland, Texas, has voted you "the girl we would most like to be alone with in the nose of an AT-II." It is most harmlessly gratifying of all to realize that, though there is no extant Garson cheesecake (except the sporran shots from Random Harvest), you get nearly as many requests for pin up pictures as Betty Grable herself...
Well-Paid Cowhand. Nevertheless, Cinemactress Garson's life is rather like that of a munificently compensated cowhand. She gets up at a quarter to 6. She is at the studio by 8. She takes time off for a cup of tea (two bags, the cream goes in first), at 4:30. She invariably stays to study the day's rushes at 6. She is home by 8. Often as not, she goes straight to bed to eat her one ravenous meal of the day-a truckdriver's helping of Irish stew or rare roast beef. Their respective...