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Article: A DIGNIFIED GREER GARSON WANTED TO LEAVE ANOTHER KIND OF LEGACY.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 5, 1998
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There are reasons that Greer Garson, queen of the MGM lot in the '40s, faded so quickly from America's collective memory. Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich and other divas of the period are remembered and celebrated for their strong personalities, their combativeness. Instead of rolling with the punches, they punched back - publicly.
But as the title of Michael Troyan's new biography, ``A Rose for Mrs. Miniver,'' reaffirms, Garson was perceived as strong, gallant, refined, quietly enduring. She won an Oscar for ``Mrs. Miniver'' in 1943, embodying the stubborn but decorous preservation of self-sacrificing British civilization at a ...