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3	->''"What goes to make a rose, ma'am, is breeding..."''
4	-->-- '''''Film/MrsMiniver'''''
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6	Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CBE]] (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was an English-American actress popular from the 1940s through the 1960s, whose reddish-gold hair, delicate complexion, and twinkling hazel eyes marked her out as both a high-toned English lady ''and'' an approachable girl-next-door type.
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8	After having played supporting roles in classical plays in the very earliest days of television (circa 1937), Garson was cast by [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] in the [[StarMakingRole leading part]] of Kathie in ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips''. She sparkled as Elizabeth Bennet opposite Creator/LaurenceOlivier's Mr. Darcy in MGM's production of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', but perhaps her best-remembered part is as the dauntless English lady facing the Nazi Blitz in ''Film/MrsMiniver'', a part she would reprise eight years later. (Garson, in her early 40s, created a minor scandal at the height of her career, by marrying the much younger actor who played her ''[[CastIncest son]]'' in ''Mrs. Miniver''!) She also played Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, in the well-regarded Creator/JosephLMankiewicz production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', and ended her film career as the aristocratic "Mother" in Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''The Happiest Millionaire''.
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10	In 1968, she added a touch of distinction to the beloved TV ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'' as '[[{{Narrator}} Our Story Teller]]', a role she revisited in the 1976 sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy The Little Drummer Boy: Book II]]''.
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13	!!Some films in which Greer Garson appeared:
14	* ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips'' (1939) as Kathie Ellis
15	* ''Remember?'' (1939) as Linda Bronson Holland
16	* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' (1940) as Elizabeth Bennet
17	* ''Film/BlossomsInTheDust'' (1941) as Edna Kahly Gladney
18	* ''When Ladies Meet'' (1941) as Mrs. Claire Woodruff
19	* ''Film/MrsMiniver'' (1942) as Mrs. Miniver
20	* ''Film/RandomHarvest'' (1942) as Paula
21	* ''Film/MadameCurie'' (1943) as UsefulNotes/MarieCurie
22	* ''Mrs Parkington'' (1944) as Susie "Sparrow" Parkington
23	* ''The Valley of Decision'' (1945) as Mary Rafferty
24	* ''Adventure'' (1945) as Emily Sears
25	* ''Desire Me'' (1947) as Marise Aubert
26	* ''Film/JuliaMisbehaves'' (1948) as Julia Packett
27	* ''That Forsyte Woman'' (1949) as Irene Forsyte
28	* ''The Miniver Story'' (1950) as Kay Miniver
29	* ''The Law and the Lady'' (1951) as Jane Hoskins
30	* ''Scandal at Scourie'' (1953) as Mrs. Victoria [=McChesney=]
31	* ''Film/{{Julius Caesar\|1953}}'' (1953) as Calpurnia
32	* ''Her Twelve Men'' (1954) as Jan Stewart
33	* ''Strange Lady in Town'' (1955) as Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
34	* ''Film/SunriseAtCampobello'' (1960) as UsefulNotes/EleanorRoosevelt
35	* ''Film/TheSingingNun'' (1966) as Mother Prioress
36	* ''Film/TheHappiestMillionaire'' (1967) as Mother
37	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'' (1968) as (TV) (voice) as [[{{Narrator}} Our Story Teller]]
38	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy The Little Drummer Boy: Book II]]'' (1976) (TV) as Our Story Teller
39	* ''Literature/LittleWomen'' (1978) (TV) as Aunt March

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