Greer garson movies in order

Star of the English stage and the American screen who, despite her Irish origins, became the screen's image of the quintessential Englishwoman.

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Fogelson, on July 15, died ; no children. Parkington , The Valley of Decision , and Sunrise at Campobello ; named honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire ; received Golda Meir Award, Hebrew University of Jerusalem , for her contributions to making educational opportunities available to deserving young people June 18, Goodbye Mr.

Chips ; Remember? The name Greer is a contraction of Gregor. By her own admission, she was a rather high-strung, "stuffy" child, who suffered from bronchitis and fainting spells and did not sit well with other children. Early on, she was reading books intended for grown-ups on which she would discourse; her first appearance on any stage was a recitation that she gave at the village town hall at the age of four.

Soon, she was winning cups and prizes in amateur competitions but could not be taken to the theater because the experience proved too stimulating; coming home, she would relive each performance, reenacting the various parts. After the death of her father when she was still a child, Garson accompanied her mother to London, where they lived outside the city in Essex County on rents from her father's properties.

Young Greer continued to win awards for her recitations while attending the local county school. She came from a long line of teachers, doctors, and Presbyterian parsons, solidly middle class in her origins on both sides.

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Although her family intended she become a teacher, and she passed through the University of London in only three years with honors, she continued to develop her taste for acting. After graduation, though she went on to do advanced work at the University of Grenoble, Garson considered all this education to be a waste of time and later admitted that she attended only because of her family's wishes.

It was in Grenoble that she decided to give up her graduate studies to pursue acting.