Greer Garson was born in 1904 in London, the only child of George Garson (1865 to 1906), the son of a British politician, and his Scottish wife, Nancy Sophia Greer († 1958), but claimed his life, she was born in 1908 in Ireland. From 1921 to 1926 she attended the University of London, graduating with a degree of Bachelor. She then worked in an ad agency, and incidentally in local theater productions. From 1931 she played for the Birmingham Repertory Company smaller roles, but had to give up because of pneumonia, her contract there. After her recovery in 1935 Garson played alongside Laurence Olivier in London's Whitehall Theater, The Golden Arrow. Five years later, the two actors in Hollywood came together again, they played in the Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice.

In 1937 she was discovered by Louis B. Mayer of MGM, and despite her misgivings, she was not very photogenic, she signed a seven-year contract. She met on the same day with Hedwig Kiesler in Burbank. Hedwig was the new name, Hedy Lamarr, and at first the attention of Louis B. Mayer. Priorities changed only after Lady of the Tropics "and" I Take this Woman flopped in a spectacular way. As Mayer recalled to his other European discovery. For Garson it meant the role of Mrs. Chips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in addition to Robert Donat. Their role was not very big, but the following year she received for her role an Oscar nomination, losing to Vivien Leigh for her role in Gone With the Wind.

She had her breakthrough in 1941 alongside Walter Pidgeon in Blossoms in the Dust, a tearful story about orphans in a subdued Technicolor. W. Greer Garson and Pidgeon was a new dream couple. Besides Garson filled the gap, leaving the Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer at MGM. Another 1941 addition to Greer Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor and Herbert Marshall was seen in When Ladies Meet to. 1942 Greer Garson played the title role in Mrs. Miniver. The film was very successful and received several Oscar nominations, of which he won six, including for best actress Greer Garson. She thanked him in a legendary fünfeinhalbminütigen speech at the Academy. In 1943 the actress married ten years younger, Richard Ney, who, in Mrs. Miniver her son had been playing, the divorce was 1947th In 1943, she played Madame Curie in the eponymous film, after Greta Garbo himself (as it then still hoped had retreated only temporarily) from the project and from the screen. Your next films were, contrary to their wishes, often serious in nature, and even the press bemoaned the same old roles, has been appointed for the Garson.

In 1945, she was at the peak of their careers. This prestige was the fact that Greer Garson was the female lead role opposite Clark Gable in his first film after the war. With the legendary slogan Gable back and Garson's got him, the studio then enlisted for adventure, with Garson as a librarian who has an affair with Clark Gable. Joan Blondell was the only good reviews. For her next appearance in Valley of Decision Gregory Peck, 1945, she received last Oscar nomination as best actress. The Oscar went to Joan Crawford for Mildred Pierce. In addition to Bette Davis (1938-1942: Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Now Voyager) Greer Garson, the only actress with five nominations is a row (1941 - 1945: Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie , Mrs. Parkington, The Valley of Decision). By 1946, changed Hollywood. The kind of films, in which Greer Garson appeared so far were not asked in the postwar era. The actress tried earlier this year with the film Desire Me consolidate their position. But the venture has become a full blown disaster. Problems with the script and the budget resulted in between filming and hire date exceeded 18 months in which the original male lead got out and ran after the shooting, three different directors. As one of the few big-ever Desire Me finally came in late 1947 without naming a director in the cinemas. In Julia Misbehave Garson 1948, finally was able to prove their (alleged) comedy talent. The film got bad reviews. One particularly incensed critics described the film as such a flop that any other actress would have passed after the fiasco forever from the screen. Elizabeth Taylor is one of her early roles.

During filming she met the millionaire oil tycoon and rancher Elijah "Buddy" Fogelson know, and they married on 15 July 1949 in Santa Fe. With Fogelson, who died in 1987, she moved to New Mexico, and Garson played only in movies, for which they are interested. In the fifties, she has starred in several films, but could not, with the exception of Julius Caesar (1953) measure up to the success they had in the 40s. It was not until 1960, she again received great critical acclaim for her role as Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. The film earned her the seventh and final Oscar nomination as a Best Actress, and the price of the National Board of Review in the same category.

Garson died at the age of 91 years in the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas after having lived there for prolonged cardiac problems the last three years. She was presented at the Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas, buried in the so-called Triangle Fogelson.
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