Greer Garson

for over 80 years.

Who had it before him? It was Greer Garson.

Okay.

Who is the reason there are time limits.

They did not have time limits until Greer Garson talked too much when she won for Mrs. Miniver.

And then they instituted time limits and Brody blazed like blew past it.

He only got like a few seconds over, I think.

They were always filmed in a rather, you know, as you say, stagey manner.

And it's so interesting to think about the impact of the 1995 version, looking at one article from the time, which noted, it also helps to get the right Darcy and Elizabeth, especially with the long shadows of Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson still looming over the story, which, you know, now they don't at all.

No.

Spoiler, in the 1940 film version, Laurence Olivier did not get his character.

I could see that.

With Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier.

So here's the bottom listed.

I'm going to give you this as another movie to probably add to your list that you haven't seen.

Ingrid Bergman was nominated for The Bells of St. Mary's.

Greer Garson was nominated for The Valley of Decision.

Absolutely terrific role.

Jennifer Jones was nominated for Love Letters.

She's a little bit smothering, but it's still really good, a really good performance.

The next performance, though, it's really close.

Okay, and so our next one would be, we're going to go with Greer Garson and the Valley of Decision.

This is a period drama, and it stars Gregory Peck.

when Clark Gable first returned from World War

II, the first film he made was a film called Adventure with Greer Garson.

And the tagline for that movie was Gable's back and Garson's got him.

Because Greg Garson came into her own as an MGM movie star when Clark Gable was fighting the war overseas.

But The Forsythe Saga, it's a technicolor, dramatic romance.

Errol Flynn was borrowed from Warner Brothers to come to MGM to make the film as the leading man.

Greer Garson is that Forsythe woman.

And her perennial screen co-star Walter Pidgeon is there in the cast.

I know, it's a very long list.

You have Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier in the black-and-white era.

Right.

You have the iconic BBC series with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

Roberts was known as a rewrite man, meaning all of his scripts were based on stories that had been created by others.

Roberts started his screenwriting career in the early 1950s, and his early scripts were for light, female-driven movies with stars like Esther Williams, Debbie Reynolds, and Greer Garson.

Roberts created the classic 1950s TV sitcom The Donna Reed Show, which depicted a typical housewife.

In 1958, Roberts wrote the Glenn Ford Western The Sheep Man, and from that point on, he was known as a writer of male-driven action films.

There's one behind-the-scenes story from the making of the 1945 movie Adventure that I want to share, because I just love these little snippets of fun information.

So Adventure starred Greer Garson and Clark Gable in the lead roles.

Joan Blondell had a supporting role.

Greer Garson and Clark Gable famously did not get along well.

They had completely opposing personalities.

But Clark Gable and Joan Blondell got along very nicely in a platonic way.