Download e-book for iPad: A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson by Michael Troyan

By Michael Troyan

ISBN-10: 0813120942

ISBN-13: 9780813120942

ISBN-10: 0813191505

ISBN-13: 9780813191508

" during this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the various myths that even this present day veil her lifestyles. the real origins of her delivery, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her profession struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are printed for the 1st time. Garson mixed an everywoman caliber with grace, attraction, and refinement. She gained the Academy Award in 1941 for her function in Mrs. Miniver , and for the subsequent decade she reigned because the queen of MGM. Co-star Christopher Plummer remembered, ""Here was once a siren who had intensity, power, dignity, and humor who may encourage nice belief, recommend deep mind and whose misty languorous eyes melted your middle away!"" Garson earned a complete of 7 Academy Award nominations for top Actress, and fourteen of her motion pictures premiered at Radio urban tune corridor, taking part in for a complete of eighty-four weeks―a checklist by no means equaled via the other actress. She was once a primary determine within the golden age of the studios, operating with mythical performers Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Debbie Reynolds, and Walter Pidgeon. Garson's reviews provide a desirable glimpse on the studio method within the years while stars have been heavily associated with a selected studio and moguls akin to L.B. Mayer broke or made careers. With the good thing about specific entry to studio construction records, own letters and diaries, and the cooperation of her kin, Troyan explores the triumphs and tragedies of her own existence, a narrative extra colourful than any function she performed on screen.

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