Greer Garson
출생 : 1904-09-29, London, England, UK
사망 : 1996-04-06
약력
Greer Garson, CBE (September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942).
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Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Self
Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
Archive Footage
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Narrator (voice)
Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Narrator (voice)
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has, a song on his drum.
Cordelia Biddle
1916년 필라델피아. 백만장자인 비들(Anthony J. Drexel Biddle: 프레드 맥머레이 분)은 쾌활하고 낙천적이며 외동딸 코디(Miss Cordelia (Cordy) Biddle: 레슬리 앤 워렌 분)를 가장 사랑한다. 코디는 파티장에서 우연히 만난 청년 앤지(Angie Duke: 존 데이비슨 분)와 서로 사랑하는 사이가 된다. 두 사람은 양가 부모의 허락도 없이 약혼하기로 결정한다. 뉴욕 출신인 앤지는 코디보다 몇 배나 부자집 아이지만 앤지는 사사건건 어머니 뜻대로만 하는 마마보이다. 성대한 약혼식을 끝내고 결혼식을 준비하는 과정에서 양가부모들의 의견이 엇갈리고, 엄아 말이면 꼼짝 못하는 나약한 앤지의 모습에 코디는 실망을 느끼고 결혼식을 취소해 버린다. 충격을 받은 앤지는 비들씨 집안의 영리한 시종 존(John Lawless: 토미 스틸 분)의 조언으로 자신의 인생은 자신이 결정해야 된다는 사실을 깨닫고 과감하게 코디를 데리고 평소 자신이 꿈꾸던 자동차 도시 디트로이트로 떠난다.
Mother Prioress
빌보드 차트 1위곡 'Dominique'을 불러 '노래하는 수녀(The Singing Nun)'로 알려져 있는 벨기에 출신의 수녀 자닌 데케르(Jeanine Deckers)의 이야기를 담은 작품.
Mary Anne Disraeli
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Greer Garson
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
Lady Cicely Waynflete
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
Regina Giddens
A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Julia Winslow Garth
1880년 뉴 멕시코 산타페에 보스턴의 한 젊은 여성 의사가 도착하여 새로운 병원을 열었다. 그녀는 그녀의 동생인 미국 기병대 대위인 데이비드와 함께 살 예정이었다. 이 마을에는 이미 남성의사인 오브라이언 의사가 있는데, 그의 말괄량이 조카딸은 잘 생긴 기병대 대위인 데이비드를 좋아한다. 이 지역의 병원은 가톨릭 신부인 가브리엘 신부와 몇 명의 수녀가 관리한다. 그러나 여성 의사가 거의 전례가 없었다. 어떤 사람들은 여성이 남성의 직업에 개입하는 것이 부끄러운 행위라고 생각하며, 여성의 역할은 가정과 자녀 양육에만 국한되어야 한다고 주장한다. 따라서, 줄리아의 도착은 보수적인 마을 주민들과 더불어 많은 사람들의 관심을 받게 되고, 사사건건 오브라이언과 대립을 하지만...
Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Jan Stewart
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
Calpurnia
기원전 44년, 줄리어스 시저는 로마 권력의 절정에 오른다. 카시우스를 비롯한 일군의 정치가들은, 시저를 존경하지만 그의 권력을 위험하게 생각하는 브루투스를 앞세워 암살 계획을 꾸민다. 불길한 꿈을 꾼 아내 칼푸니아의 만류에도 불구하고 시저는 상원으로 향하는데.... 카시우스로 분한 존 길거드, 브루투스의 제임스 메이슨, 안토니우스를 연기하는 말론 브랜도 등 명배우들의 연기가 불을 뿜는 시대극.
Victoria McChesney
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
Jane Hoskins
A former housemaid (Garson) now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
Kay Miniver
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
Self (uncredited)
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors.
Irene Forsyte
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Julia Packett
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
Marise Aubert
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Emily Sears
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Mary Rafferty
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Susie 'Sparrow' Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Marie Curie
어린 폴란드 물리학 박사 마리는 잠시 동안 피에르의 연구실에서 일하게 되고 둘은 결혼한다. 베크렐의 영향을 받은 그들은 방사능을 연구하기로 한다. 많은 실험 후 그들은 우랴륨보다 훨씬 강한 방사능성을 내는 물질을 발견하고 그것의 분리작업을 시도한다. 대학교의 임시 연구소에서 수년의 실험후에 그들은 극소량의 새로운 원소를 분리하는데 성공한다. 그러나 그들의 대단한 발견에도 불구하고 남편 피에르는 교통사고로 사망한다. 퀴리부인의 일대기를 다룬 영화로 과학도로서의 그녀의 꿈과 사랑을 다룬 전기영화다.
Herself - Guest Star
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
Paula
전투 도중 부상을 입고 기억 상실증에 언어장애까지 겹친 찰스(Charles Rainer/John 'Smithy' Smith: 로날드 콜맨 분)는 종전 되던 날 안개를 틈타 수용소를 몰래 빠져 나온다. 그 뒤 챨스는 아름다운 여인 폴라(Paula: 그리어 가슨 분)를 만나 건강도 되찾고 결혼해 아들도 낳는 한편 작가로 입문하는데 리버풀에 연재기사를 계약하러 혼자 갔다 교통사고를 당해 폴라와 같이 산 세월만 기억을 못하게 된다. 명문의 아들인 챨스는 그 뒤 고향으로 돌아가 사업가로 대성하나 기억하지 못하는 세월 때문에 뭔가 늘 허전해 하며 열쇠를 만지작 거리며 산다. 한편 폴라는 잡지에 난 챨스의 사진을 보고 챨스의 개인 비서로 일하게 되고 사실은 밝히지 않고 챨스를 훌륭히 보필하면서 기억이 되살아 나기만 기다리며 안타까와 한다. 챨스가 국회의원이 되자 둘은 결혼해 형식적인 부부가 되어 폴라는 챨스의 의정활동을 돕다가 끝내는 기억이 되살아나 재회하게 된다.
Mrs. Miniver
미니버 씨 부부(Kay Miniver: 그리어 가슨 분 / Clem Miniver: 월터 피전 분)와 그들의 3자녀 한가족은 영국의 평범한 중류 가정이다. 대학을 졸업한 큰 아들 네이는 갓 결혼한 신혼의 아내 라이트를 두고 공군 조종사로 출전한다. 미니버씨는 던커크 철수 작전에도 참가한다. 부인은 추락한 독일군 조종사와 맞부딪히기도 한다. 본격적인 독일의 공습이 시작되고, 방공호가 거의 일상적인 생활공간이 되다시피 하지만 가족은 굳건히 견디어 나간다. 그러나 어느날 공습에서 임신 중이던 며느리를 잃고 만다. 라스트에서 폐허가 된 교회에서 올려지는 예배.
Mrs. Claire Woodruff
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
Edna Gladney
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Elizabeth Bennet
적령기를 맞고 있다. 온순하고 마음이 착하며 만사에 내성적인 맏딸 제인에 비해, 둘째 딸 엘리자베스는 인습에 사로잡히지 않고 재치가 넘치는 발랄한 아가씨였다. 제인은 근처에 이사온 늠름한 청년 빙리를 사랑하게 되지만, 신중하게 자기 애정을 숨기고 있다. 빙리의 친구 다시는 겉치레를 우습게 알기 때문에, 성격 연구가임을 내세우는 엘리자베스에 대해서조차 신분을 내세우는 `오만`한 남자라는 인상을 주지만, 결국 자유롭고 활달한 엘리자베스를 사랑하게 된다. 그러나, 다시는 베네트 부인과 아래로 세 명의 딸들이 어리석게 행동하기 때문에 그 이상 더 엘리자베스와 관계가 깊어지는 것을 꺼려하였다.
빙리도 역시 제인을 사랑하고는 있었으나, 그녀의 사랑을 받을 수 있을 것인지 자신감을 상실하게 된다. 이리하여 결국 이들 두 청년은 그 땅에서 떠나간다. 다시는 그 뒤 신분의 격차가 있고, 저속한 중매인에 대한 혐오감도 있지만, 그 모든 장애를 뛰어넘어 엘리자베스에게 구혼한다. 그러나 그녀는 다시가 `오만`하다는 `편견`을 가지고 있었기 때문에 그 구애를 거부 한다. 그러나 경박하고 낯이 두터운 콜린스와 싹싹하기는 하지만 성실하지 못 한 위컴과의 교제를 통하여 첫인상이 중요하지 않다는 사실을 깨닫게 된다. 그 외에도 여러 가지 사건과 만남을 통하여 다시가 실은 너그럽고 생각이 깊은 인물이라는 사실을 알게 되어, 엘리자베스는 자기 `편견 `을 시정한다. 한편 다시는 빙리에 대한 제인의 사랑이 진실되다는 사실을 알고, 두 사람의 결혼을 주선한다. 그리고 다아시와 엘리자베스도 이해와 애정과 존경으로 맺어진다.
Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Linda Bronson
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Katherine 'Kathy'
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Self
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
A cuckolded husband finds poems written to his wife by her lover, who then tries to explain they were written to a goddess who shares the same name. The husband takes this as an insult to his wife.
St. Clara