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...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
Married. Lieut. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 43, Coast Guard Bandmaster, Sinatra of the '20s; and Cinemactress Bette-Jane Greer, 19, almond-eyed ex-cover girl; he for the third time, she for the first; seven years after his divorce from the late cinemactress Fay Webb; in Hollywood...
Engaged. Lieut. Rudy Vallee, 42, Coast Guard bandmaster; and Bettejane Greer, 18, model, his film-singer protegee; in Hollywood. Cinemactress Fay Webb, the crooner's second wife, divorced him in 1936, died the same year...
...Married. Greer Garson, 31, red-haired cinemactress who got 1942's Academy Award; and U.S.N.R. Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, peacetime cinemactor; each for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif. In Mrs. Miniver...